3 SIMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH FLUENCY
today i’m going to teach you three
simple steps to help you
speak english more fluently i’m teacher
tiffany
let’s jump right in
[Music]
all right three simple steps to help you
speak fluently in english
step one focus on your interests step
two
don’t stress and step three provide good
content
now let’s dive into step number one the
focusing on your interests
what you need to do is read and talk
about
your current interests in english this
will help you stay focused
speak with more confidence and remain
consistent so
let’s break this down a little bit more
think about
what you are currently interested in
right now
i’ve mentioned so many times before that
i love cooking and that i love food
maybe you also enjoy food maybe the food
in your home country is whoa
amazing so you already have thoughts and
ideas about the food of your home
country
so when you’re studying english if you
learn words or
phrases related to that topic you will
grasp them faster and be able to use
them
quicker here’s the thing again when
you’re focusing on your interests
not only will you grasp information
faster you’ll also
stay more focused why
because the information that you’re
interested in is not
boring that’s so important when you’re
trying to become fluent in english
also you’ll gain more confidence think
about it
when there’s something that you are sure
of something that you’re interested in
something that you know a lot of
information about when someone asks you
a question about that topic
you answer oh i can tell you all about
that
it doesn’t matter that it’s in your
second language or your third language
being english because you’re already
interested
in that topic and it’ll also help you be
more
consistent and you won’t get bored so
let me show you some example
conversations that can stem
from your interests here we go for
example my
interests currently some of them are
reading
basketball and cooking now again i told
you all how much i love
basketball i played it my entire life so
these are three things that i’m
interested in right now
so how can we use these interests to
have
better fluency in english so let’s say
for example we were talking about
reading
what you can do is describe the most
recent book you read and why
you liked it now whatever that book may
be
you were interested in it which is why
you picked it up to read it
so all of the information is already
stored in your brain
now you just have to tweak the
information just a little bit
to explain it in english well what about
basketball do we talk about a basketball
game
or we can actually talk about how you
fell
in love with basketball you see what’s
happening right
the topic the interest is there but
there are many ways
of talking about that interest because
you know so
much about it for example for me
um i fell in love with basketball when i
was very young i still remember watching
my dad
playing all the time at the park every
weekend with his friends
and i was like three or four years old
so i fell in love with the game
watching my dad now even when i speak in
korean
i can speak about basketball very easily
why because i already have the ideas in
my
head now i can say a little bit in
korean for you for those that are
curious like
so what i said was i’ll translate don’t
worry
i said i really love basketball then i
said
wow it’s because when i was younger my
dad
almost every weekend would play
basketball with his friends
so i said that in korean and i was able
to switch that quickly
why because i already have the ideas in
my head and it’s very interesting to me
and i’ll be honest with you i haven’t
spoken korean in a while
of course basic sentences but i’m back
in america now so i don’t have the
opportunity to speak as much as i did
when i was in korea
however i’m so interested in basketball
that my brain
already has the information needed to
speak about it
whether it’s in english or in korean and
the same is true for you
when you focus on your interests as you
study english
so what about cooking the same is true i
could talk about the food that i cook
best i love to cook
salads i love to cook mexican food i
like to cook indian food
and these are things that i think about
on a regular basis
so i’m just switching to the language
i’m learning
and that’s what you need to do again
step number one
focus on your interest and you’ll start
speaking fluently
in english now i do want you to remember
one thing
start the conversations about topics
that you
are interested in this is so important
for you to remember when you get into a
conversation with someone
when someone starts a conversation in
english you may feel a bit nervous
well it’s okay take control of the
conversation by
kindly starting to talk about what
you’re interested in
like oh hey do you like cooking i
really love cooking tell me what you
like about cooking
you’ve started the conversation about
something you’re interested in
now i want to challenge you all again
this is something that i feel is very
important for you to be interactive and
to participate so
again step number one is to focus on
your interests
what i want you to do is in the comment
section that’s right right now
tell me your top three interests
right now again by recognizing and
knowing what your interests are you’ll
be able to find out what you need to
focus on
when you’re studying english so in the
comment section
write your three top interests right now
i put reading basketball and cooking but
what are your three
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all right so again guys number one is
focus on your interests
now as we move on we have to go to step
number two
which is don’t stress
that’s right don’t stress now this is so
important here’s the thing guys instead
you need to enjoy
speaking in english you see when you
stress
you also stress your brain
i’m gonna explain that a little bit so
stay with me when i say you stress your
brain think about it when you’re
stressed
maybe you clench your fists right you
get a little nervous
start breathing a little heavy but your
brain also gets
stressed and you’re not able to think
clearly
when you’re feeling all of this stress
this makes it again difficult to think
clearly
however when you are relaxed you are
able to speak in english
more fluently now stay to the end i’m
going to tell you guys a story about
this during
story time i have a story about when i
felt stressed and i wasn’t able to think
clearly so let’s look at different ways
you can practice
being stress free here are some methods
that i like to use again
ways to eliminate stress these are
called stress
relievers so you have short breaks
watch movies and track your progress so
the first one
short breaks figure out how long you
need to relax
whether it be minutes hours days or
weeks now this is something that is very
very important for your english language
journey as you’re studying english now i
know that you are an amazing student and
maybe you’ve been studying english for
months or
years and you’ve been studying very
diligently
but there are times when you feel a
little bit overwhelmed you feel a little
bit stressed you feel like
i really just want a break now if you’ve
been studying for example for
several months you need to take a few
days where you don’t do
anything you don’t study anything at all
if you’re studying one day and you’ve
been studying for six hours
you need to take about an hour break you
have to give your brain an opportunity
to relax think about exercise again i
tell you all the time how much i love
sports and exercising
when you’re exercising right you you
push the body really hard whether it’s
running
or weight lifting or doing something
strenuous
right but you can’t do that all day
every day you push push push then you
relax
push push push then relax the same is
true for your english
language journey as you’re studying you
have to have
moments where you just relax take
breaks it’s so important several months
ago well maybe about three months ago i
took a break i took a vacation
and a lot of you all knew that i hadn’t
taken a vacation in almost two years
but my family my friends and they were
everyone was telling me tiff you have to
relax
i love what i do but they could see that
i was actually getting a little bit
stressed
they said take a week off and don’t do
anything
it was such a good stress reliever to
take that break
sometimes you need to do the same thing
maybe you’re wondering teacher how is
this break going to help me
speak english fluently well here’s what
happened to me when i took that break
that vacation
when i came back from the vacation i had
tons of
ideas and ways to improve the business
that i was working on
ways to serve you better why because i
gave my brain a chance to relax
the same will happen for you you’re
taking in so much information and it’s
great
but you need to give your brain an
opportunity to process the information
to relax and see how it can connect to
other information that’s already in your
brain
your brain has triggers you’re putting
more information in and it needs to
connect
those pieces of information so when you
take that short break
it allows your brain to make those
connections now
another stress reliever is right here
simply
watching movies or watching something
that you enjoy
and i want to emphasize don’t take notes
i want you to turn off your student
brain i know it’s a little weird coming
from me right as your teacher
but there are moments when you have to
just stop
and just relax just enjoy i remember
when i was first learning korean it was
difficult
but there are moments like on the
weekends i said i’m not i’m not going to
study
i would just watch korean dramas i
didn’t take any notes
didn’t have a pen or paper i just sat
down or i laid on my bed
and i watched hours and hours of korean
dramas
well you see what happened was my brain
was still making connections but i was
in a relaxed
state so many of the expressions many of
the situations that now i understand
about korean culture or from korean
culture
came from those moments when i
was relaxed not stressing and just
taking information in
and you have to give your up your brain
the opportunity to do this as well okay
finally you can also use this stress
reliever
tracking your progress basically
acknowledge
how much you have improved now i know
you can agree with this one
you’ve studied a lot right but you still
feel like ah
i’m not as good as i should be or i have
a long way to go right
i felt the same way before and there are
moments i feel the same way now
but here’s the thing when you do that
you actually stress yourself out so
the way to counteract that feeling is to
literally
track your progress see how much you
learned last month
see how much you’ve learned this month
compare the two
see how much more comfortable you are in
speaking with people about certain
topics
that will actually give you more
confidence and help you speak more
fluently in english
because you’ll feel good about yourself
it’s all about being easy on yourself
don’t beat yourself
up so much relax and realize that you
are
learning a lot so these stress relievers
are very important
again step two is eliminating stress
don’t stress now you must eliminate
stress
in order to improve now
the final step is step number three
provide good
content here’s a fact content
is greater than grammar i’ll say it
again
content is greater or more important
than grammar now don’t misunderstand me
this is an
important fact that i need you to
understand you see
content is more important than grammar
as an english learner grammar is
important
but even native english speakers
sometimes make grammar mistakes
so you must remember that your content
is very important
when you are trying to improve your
fluency let me explain it like this
let’s say you get into a conversation
right and the person
asks you a question they say hey what’s
your
favorite movie right and you say oh
i love the sound of music perfect
sentence
but then you stop and they look at you
waiting for you to continue again
because they want to know more
about the movie or why you like it but
you were only focused on making a
perfect sentence so you stopped
and that means the conversation also
stopped
however let’s imagine i’m gonna make
some sentences that are incorrect but
i’m gonna add more content here we go
um my favorite movie are the sound of
music
people movie are amazing the husband
wife they spent time together
children ran around together and there
was
exciting things happening in the movie
and
they had to save their lives or work
hard to save their lives
now you notice that i made many grammar
mistakes
purposely however you got the content
right
there was a husband there was a wife
there were children they were together
saved lives i gave you more content now
again i want to emphasize grammar is
important
but when you’re trying to improve your
english fluency you
must focus on the content
as well so let me teach you how you can
improve your content which will help
your fluency
there are three methods that i like to
use when i’m teaching students
how to organize your content here we go
the five w’s
three details and three examples so with
the five ws you use the five w’s to
organize your content
who what when where and why now
for you i’m sure you’ve been with me for
a long time so you know about the five
w’s again
who what when where and why when you
have all of these
w’s organized you can give the right
amount of information
about any subject any topic any event
your content is important so the person
listening to you
will feel like you are fluent in english
because you provided
all of the necessary parts to explain
what you were talking about so again the
five w’s that’s the first way to
organize
your content or your idea now the three
details is another way of organizing
your content
think about the three most important
details
of the topic you are discussing this is
so
important so again let’s go back to what
i talked about earlier with cooking
right
i said i enjoy cooking mexican food for
example
all right well if i want to speak
fluently about this topic and i
choose three details i can give you
three details about
mexican food or three details about my
favorite mexican food right
for example i love taco salads taco
salads are really good because they have
so many different
ingredients all put together next i
really enjoy
mexican food because i had it all
throughout my younger years i
was raised in arizona true and when i
was younger i was
from about from birth to about six years
old i was in arizona
there were a lot of spanish and mexican
people in arizona so my mom learned how
to cook authentic mexican food
so mexican food became a part of my life
i love mexican food so again
i’m giving you more details and you see
what’s happening right you’re learning
more about me
more about the topic and i’m speaking
fluently about it
three details now the other thing is
three
egg samples think about three examples
related to the topic
you are discussing this is another way
to improve your fluency
again organizing your ideas no matter
what the topic is
if the topic is basketball again i
mentioned that earlier
if that’s the topic well three examples
maybe i can tell you three examples of
games that i played in throughout high
school and university
again you want to think about things
related to your interests
and organize your thoughts either based
on the five w’s
the five three details excuse me or
three examples
now the last thing i want you to
remember about this is right here
you must organize your ideas
in order to speak fluently this
is a must so three steps again you need
to speak fluently
one of your interests focus on your
interests number two
don’t stress and provide good
content again number one changed a
little bit right
it’s okay you knew focus on your
interests now i hope these three steps
help you speak more fluently in english
remember i’m always here to help you
don’t forget the challenge in the
comment section write your three
current top interest and remember i’ll
pick
one individual to get the free 60 minute
tutoring session with the cambly tutor
but don’t worry everyone that
participates will have access to
some coupons that will be amazing
guys thank you so much for joining me i
hope this lesson
helped you and i want you to speak
fluently so i’ll see you next week
but as always remember to speak english
you still there you know what time it is
it’s story time hey
i said a story time
all right guys so today’s story i’ve
told part of this story before but i
wanted to go into
a little bit more details about the
story so
today we talked about the three things
the three steps you can follow to speak
english
more fluently and step number two dealt
with stress right eliminating stress so
i want to tell you about one of the most
stressful situations i’ve ever
experienced
in my life now i’ve told you all that i
had to take
an exam right to pass to get my graduate
my master’s degree when i was in
graduate school i had to take the exam
three times in korean so it was very
difficult
when i got to the third time right i
remember like it was yesterday again
prior to this i had actually come back
to america for six months and all i did
every day
all day was study for the exam so i i
felt that i was prepared right six
months studying every day
all day so i walked into so
again there were a group of students
that had come together for the exam
there were hundreds of students there so
we had all
you know the doors open and we walked
into the room where the test was going
to be i was a little nervous but
i had kind of managed my nervousness a
little bit because i had studied for so
long
so we all found our respective seats we
all sat down
and the individuals who were
administering the test they you know
they handed out the test they said don’t
touch it though
leave it face down okay makes sense we
had 90 minutes for the test so they
wanted us to all turn the test over
at the same time so i sat down you know
i was breathing i was i was pretty calm
i said okay god you know i was praying
god you know we’re gonna do this it’s
the third time
i’ve studied hard we can do this so the
person that was administering the test
said okay everyone you can now
turn over your test and the timer
started so you heard
paper rustling of course flipped it over
right
had my pin ready and there were two
questions on the test
so i read the first question
time stood still i had no
idea what it was talking about so i said
okay
i said okay i’m not gonna get stressed
yet let me look at question number two
so i went to question number two and i
said
i had no idea what question number two
meant this is when the stress
started coming up when i say i was
sitting in that seat
and literally everything just stood
still
i heard students behind me writing
writing really fast
i wasn’t writing anything and i felt
like the the people that were standing
in front of me who were watching us
they were just staring at me because i
literally was just sitting there i
wasn’t moving
i wasn’t writing anything and i was just
i was shocked i said i don’t know what
this test is about lord
so all the thoughts started pouring into
my head i spent six months studying i
went to america i spent day and night
studying all for this test
hours and hours and this is my third
time i failed twice
and i started getting more and more and
more and more
stressed and in the midst of this stress
i heard god’s voice say tiff you need to
relax you need to calm down
and i need you to read the questions one
more time now i’m like god i don’t
understand
again this is all happening in my mind
but i was extremely stressed
he said i need you to calm down i need
you to relax and read the questions
again
so i prayed i turned the test over and i
read the question again
something about the question started to
make just a little bit more sense
he said read it again i was starting to
get a little bit more calm
i read it again and all of a sudden
everything started to click once the
stress
dropped down i had relaxed my brain was
now able to pump normally instead of
being restricted
and i understood the question and now
the funny thing is i felt like the holy
spirit said
now tiff get your pen and start
writing because the time was flying by
honestly i had been sitting there for
almost 20 minutes not writing anything
because i didn’t know what it said i
didn’t understand it
so i immediately started writing and
writing and writing and writing and
everything just started
clearing up for me i started
understanding and i was writing
connecting all that i studied
all of these things started to make
sense and i started writing and i
completed the test right on time now
fast forward as you know i graduated so
i passed the test
um but what i realized about that
situation was
the moment i started to get stressed the
moment i started to allow
my temperature to rise and i was getting
nervous and i was i wasn’t shaking but i
knew that i was stressed
i realized that i wasn’t able to think
clearly
and nothing was coming out i had been
studying korean for years so i could
speak korean
but nothing was coming out until i
managed my stress
and relaxed the same is true for you
when it comes to speaking fluently in
english and that’s why i wanted to tell
you all this story because
there are moments when you feel like
you’re not able to speak fluently in
english
and it’s not because of your
intelligence you are very smart
however it’s sometimes because of your
stress
level so like number two step two
you have to stop stressing you have to
eliminate that stress and figure
out ways to relax now i got through that
ordeal and now i have many stories to
tell my children later on in life
but i hope it helped you and i hope you
learned a lot
from it i will see you all next week
remember to study hard remember you can
do it and don’t forget the three steps
and also don’t forget to write your
three interests in the comment section
i will see you next week