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thanks for your patience today we’re
going to talk about conversation English
tips because I know a lot of you want to
be fluent speakers and speak naturally
smoothly right right yes so Dan is here
today to help me explain some things and
to give another perspective because I
hope I have a lot of valuable
information to share but another person
and hearing that dialogue together is
really valuable and that’s what we’re
going to talk about today so we will put
this over here and get started all right
so they maybe should have the mind map
right yes so do you have the download I
gave a download which is a mind map
thanks for asking it is on outline with
some blanks where you can fill in any
answers that we talked about so if you
want to take notes or if you want to
remember what we said but you want to
listen at the same time it might be
helpful to follow the outline so in the
on the Google+ Google Hangouts page I
gave a link a Google Drive link where
you can download the mind map so I hope
that you have been able to do that if
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oh all right are we good yes all right
if you are watching can you please mute
your sound and turn off your video that
would be great that would be great I
think yes yes all right so first the
first things we’re going to talk about
first I’m going to give you a little
personal introduction so we can
introduce ourselves some of you have
already met us some of you I’ve talked
with on skype but if you haven’t met us
I’m Vanessa and you are I’m Dan hi
this is my husband Dan and I run the
website speak English with Vanessa so I
get a chance to speak with many of you
each week and make videos and have a
chance to really help you learn English
and we live in the eastern US so about
15 hours south of New York City very far
from New York but in the same time zone
so we live in a city called Asheville
North Carolina and we just moved here
about six months ago from Korea and I
see we have a comment from your son Kim
who says he is in Korea too oh yeah go
Korea yes I think I see there’s also
some of you here from Brazil excellent I
think some of you from Europe it’s very
late at night for you wonderful from all
over the
world hello world yes yes as some from
Russia excellent excellent
so then would you like to tell them
anything interesting about our city
maybe some people are curious our city
is quite different from most cities
around the world it’s very small so if
you’re from Korea you wouldn’t see a
city like this but it is very we would
say charming very interesting city so
there are not many people but there’s
many things to do we live in the
mountains and by rivers and there is a
lot of local business here and everybody
is very interested in living locally we
say so going to the farmers market or
going to the local restaurant and stuff
like that yeah yeah I work at a local uh
coffee shop so I am a barista right now
and maybe someday I’ll open up my own
coffee shop so this is what kind of what
we do in Asheville there’s more but it’s
an interesting little town yeah there’s
a lot to do here it’s a small place and
not many foreign travelers come here but
if you have a chance I recommend it we
will take you to a nice restaurant how
about that so I I want to tell you first
some about my personal journey having
difficult frustrating boring language
classes and going from that situation
which many of you have probably
experienced with English boring classes
grammar classes to being able to speak a
foreign language fluently so the
language that I learned to speak
fluently is French and if any of you are
French speakers out there bond Rue and
when as many of you saw in my free ebook
I talked about I used to have Spanish
classes where the teacher just talked
the whole time we just listened and read
the textbook and that’s boring right
yeah yeah you’re boring just thinking
about it is more
yes yeah it’s not very easy to learn
language for a long time in school yeah
or be able to speak fluently from school
unfortunately yeah and I’m sure you are
very familiar with that situation so in
my case I didn’t really learn Spanish
very well because that situation was
just boring and not helpful or useful it
was pretty stressful in tests and the
teacher would always ask us really
difficult questions and it wasn’t a good
environment so with French I decided
that I wanted to do it a little
differently so I went to the French
teachers office and I asked her
questions just one on one and you know
what that was amazing because she was so
patient with me and just told me things
like oh if you don’t understand
everything eh it’s no problem
let’s just talk together and try to say
anything and that was exactly what I
needed so I had some classes with my
French teacher and then I also went to a
local French group so I lived in the US
but there were a lot of French speakers
in my city so we met up together each
week at a cafe and that was great
because I got to hear French and just
try to speak and I bet a lot of you
would love to meet up with people who
aren’t going to pressure you or make you
feel stressed so we’re going to talk
about how to do that a little bit later
but yes so meeting up with the teacher
helped a lot meeting up with the local
group helped a lot and I think just
having the bravery the courage to be
able to speak is a lot so I know a lot
of you you’ve asked great questions here
in the question and answer about how can
I speak how can I feel confident and
that is exactly what we’re going to talk
about today so let’s get started yes yes
so let’s go to section number one if you
have the mind map if you have the down
load the the second section is how to
speak fluidly even if you don’t live in
an english-speaking country so then what
do you think is the first step what do
you think is the first step to speaking
fluently well it’s funny it has nothing
to do with speaking it’s actually
listening aha you’re correct listening
regularly yes English so the first thing
is of course listening I know I talk
about this a lot so trying to listen to
anything and do you have any
recommendations for things that learners
can listen to well I like to listen to
podcasts which are radio shows on the
Internet
so just normal people talking which is
perfect to listen to on a regular basis
you can also watch TV shows their movies
obviously but sometimes the dialogue the
conversation is not very real it is
funny and interesting but not not always
the most real version of conversation
but still very good sure sure that’s
very useful especially since you don’t
live in an english-speaking country so
there’s a special rule that I want to
tell you about though when you’re
listening to TV shows movies podcasts I
like to call it the 70% rule so the 70%
rule it means if you can understand more
than 70% don’t use subtitles don’t use
your native language subtitles don’t use
English subtitles try to test your
listening by using no subtitles so if
you understand if you’re watching the TV
show friends a lot of you love to listen
to watch friends so if you’re watching
friends and you understand about 70%
turn off the subtitles and try to watch
it just regularly with no subtitles
that’s the 70% rule so under 70% it’s
okay it’s no problem to use English
subtitles and if you don’t have
subtitles it would be
boring because you wouldn’t understand
what’s happening so under 70% don’t feel
bad about using subtitles some of my
students say oh I’m so sorry
I used English subtitles but it’s not a
big deal
that’s okay yes if you understand less
than 70% go ahead use subtitles as much
as possible
that’s the 70% rule so what about the
second tip for how to speak fluently if
you don’t live in an english-speaking
country what do you think so on the mind
map on the document I gave to you it
says hmm out loud is the second step
what do you think what do you think
should be there I believe it should be
reading out oh good reading in your head
uh-huh I have to read out loud to hear
your voice to practice pronouncing and
pronunciation yes yes so the the second
step for speaking fluently first is
listening just training your ear the
second one is training your mouth
muscles by reading something out loud
and of course if you want to be a fluent
speaker try to read something natural
don’t read like CNN it’s not very
natural for conversations so try to read
a dialogue try to read a blog post read
something that’s in a conversational
tone so read it out loud a short story a
few paragraphs an article one of my blog
posts on my website for each lesson
I have blog post you can read and you
help your ear get used to hearing your
own voice speaking English and that’s
really important because it will help
you have more and more confidence so the
more confidence you have the easier it
will be to do step number three which is
speaking uh-huh to someone else yes of
speaking to someone else in English of
course oh yes of course I want to learn
English so I’m going to speak Portuguese
even oh yes so if you want to improve
your speaking first of all listen it’s a
good first step then read out loud train
your mouth and the third
train your social skills by practicing
speaking with someone so this is if you
feel like you are up high beginner or
low intermediate it’s a good time to
start speaking if you can understand 70%
of our presentation today yes
you should start speaking with a native
speaker speak with anyone who can speak
English
even if they’re not a native speaker and
this is maybe the most challenging thing
to do but it is also maybe the most
important thing to do to try to we say
put yourself out there so try to
challenge yourself and fighting you know
really trying to go and say I’m going to
speak to somebody in English and we have
a couple tips on how to do that yes yes
so we have here there are several tips
three tips for how you can find someone
to speak with because this idea you’re
not in an english-speaking country how
can you find someone so the first tip is
I think you should go to the Internet of
course we are here on the internet
together so there is a website I
recommend the website is meet up.com
M eet u P calm and meetup calm is great
for finding people anywhere around the
world who are going to a cafe and you
can just buy a coffee and speak English
together it’s not a class but you’re
just having a chance to practice
together so I recommend checking out
meetup calm and yeah do you have any
personal examples with meetup comm that
you’ve used before um not necessarily
that I’ve use but I’ve definitely seen
you use meetup right the best thing
about meetup comm is it’s just people
coming together in a group in your local
area
who want to do similar things so it’s
very simple very basic but you have to
be a little brave because you have to
put yourself out there yeah
oh there do something uncomfortable yeah
it’s a little uncomfortable but once you
do it you’ll feel very proud yes yes so
I personally I’ve used this website
meetup.com
so much in fact yesterday I went to a
local French meetup group we met at a
cafe everyone with strangers I didn’t
know anyone there and we just sat down
and started talking hey where are you
from how did you learn French how long
have you lived in the city and you could
do the same thing in your city I’ve
checked many of my students hometowns on
Meetup calm and almost always there are
English meetup groups in their city so I
recommend if you are really serious
about improving your speaking
check out meetup comm I don’t work for
their website I just want to recommend
it to you as a great in-person
opportunity because language classes are
okay but really you want real
experiences so this is real experiences
can you meet native speakers there too
yes if you live in a medium-sized city
almost always there’s going to be native
speakers there so yes it’s a great
chance and let’s go to the second tip
how to find people who you can speak
with so the first one is meetup calm the
second one is free language exchanges
online so free language exchanges online
are places where you can meet up with
someone who wants to learn your native
language now personally I haven’t had
much success with these websites because
the time zone didn’t work or we I came
to Skype and they weren’t there so I
don’t have a website recommendation for
you for this but some people have a lot
of success with this so there’s a lot of
language exchange websites if you speak
Korean and someone wants to learn Korean
and you want to learn English great you
can exchange your languages and it could
work fine so yes mera kaam language
exchange websites and the third thing
what do you think the third thing
dan I would say meeting a wonderful
tutor to give you feedback and speak
English with a native speaker would be
very wise sure so meeting someone
one-on-one on skype in person it’s so
valuable to be able to have like Dan
said feedback now can you explain what
is feedback maybe some of you know this
word maybe some don’ts yes feedback is
when somebody has more knowledge than
you so is better at speaking English and
they can listen for your mistakes or
problems or just give you any general
tips and then they give you feedback so
this is what you did wrong this is what
you did right good job
bad job it’s not bad job attitude yes
yes so I think one of the most important
things for learning English is giving
personal feedback so that could be a
teacher or someone saying hey I
understood what you said but it’s not
very natural to say it like that you
should say it like this instead and
maybe some of your friends if you have
English speaking friends maybe they
don’t do that with you they just say
uh-huh oh really oh oh because they
don’t want to stop you it might feel
uncomfortable but it’s so valuable to
get feedback so that you can know where
you should improve so feedback is very
important and let’s go to the next
points yes yes the next point are some
of my best conversation tips what works
and what doesn’t work
and from my experience learning French
and my not-so-great experience trying to
learn Spanish I think we have some good
tips for you so number one is if you
want to be a fluent native speaker you
have to listen to what natural fluent
conversation yes just like
just exactly like this conversation yes
yes so you need to listen to what you
want to be so if you want to be a fluent
speaker you need to listen to fluent
speaking but a lot of people think oh
I’ll read some news articles or I’ll
I’ll read something or I’ll do something
else that’s not exactly what you want to
do in the future so I recommend if you
want to be a fluent speaker listen to
fluent English participate in fluent
conversations like meetup comm or Skype
lessons something where you will have
the chance to experience what you want
to be and there’s a lot of great ways
you can do this YouTube has a lot of
great videos that you can use to hear
natural conversations to learn those
little tips and tricks that native
speakers use little dialogue bits and I
think that this is a great resource
because it’s free and of course there is
some negative sides to it because if you
understand less than 70 percent you’re
not going to be able to always have
accurate subtitles so YouTube sometimes
has automatic subtitles and
unfortunately it might be a little
difficult to find accurate subtitles so
you need someone to explain or to talk
about expressions in the video but on
the mind map that I sent to you so on in
the document I sent three YouTube
channels that I recommend now these
three YouTube channels are for native
speakers so they have very natural
fluent conversation they have a lot of
great dialogues and these three YouTube
channels on the mind map if you didn’t
get it I’ll make sure I send it
afterwards in the mind map I talked
about three channels one is soul pancake
in so pancakes channel they have a lot
of family-friendly happy interesting
interviews
our conversations lots of stuff going on
yes it’s supposed to be inspiring yes
I’m seeing ideas make you feel like I’m
happy to be alive
oh yes I can do it I can learn English
yes but it has very real English yes so
this is one of the channels I recommend
and the second one is a BuzzFeed video
this is like pop culture kind of videos
and the final one is the fine brothers
so the fine brothers videos they have
interviews and reaction videos so their
videos are very famous for showing
people reacting to for example a hint
pop song like Gangnam style yes like
Gangnam style or something else they’ll
show people reacting so you’ll have a
chance to see natural reactions and that
kind of dialogue back and forth so these
three channels I recommend for listening
to natural English alright let’s move on
to the next point the next thing is I
have three tips for you three tips of
what my most successful students do this
is for you yes for you so you want to be
a successful english learner of course
so there are three things that my
successful students do a successful
student is someone who wants to improve
their English and then actually does
improve and these three things the first
one is they ask a lot of questions they
ask questions about some English video
they saw a podcast they listen to and oh
why do you think it’s important to ask
questions well if you ask questions then
that means you are curious so you are
not just thinking give me all the
information you are thinking hmm what
can I ask or how can I think to get
better information myself yes so a
question puts the power in your hands
yes so you have the power yourself for
learning English when you ask questions
so I know a lot of you here in the
question
and Starbucks have asked a lot of great
questions so great I’m excited to answer
those when we finish and asking
questions is great and the second thing
is they use English regularly regularly
exactly often it’s a habit maybe even
every day yes yes they use at least a
little yes as much as possible regularly
and maybe they listen to English every
day at breakfast or they listen to a
video or watch a video while they’re
sitting on the train they they reserved
five minutes 30 minutes a short period
of time that they can use to learn
English regularly and I know I have some
students who really feel passionate and
they watch an english movie every day
and listen to a podcast every day
and after one week they feel really
tired and burnt out how would you
describe burnt out
it just means very tired right so they
don’t want to do more work right right
so they did too much and then they feel
burnt out or maybe they feel frustrated
because they worked for eight hours
every day for a week and their English
isn’t improving so take it slowly take
it step by step take English in small
sustainable pieces okay bite-size
bite-sized chalk sium bite-size pieces
and you need to do something that is
sustainable don’t forget to be
sustainable something that you can
continue doing for a long time
not ten hours every day it’s impossible
to continue like that so find a time
period five minutes a day great maybe 30
minutes on the weekend you can do it
every weekend great find something that
you can do continually and take action
right action is important right right we
have a saying in English called use it
or lose it
ah huh yeah this means you must practice
English regularly or you will lose
English it will just go away in your
head or it will not be effective site
use it or lose it
oh yes yes you have to use it or lose it
so the final thing number three so the
first thing that my successful students
do is to ask questions the second one is
that they use English regularly and
finally they have diligence no and they
have fun they have fun so they laugh at
themselves they’re not stressed they’re
not worried about improving all their
English in one week I have to do it now
no they just have fun it realized that
yes it’s going to take time but don’t
worry you can do it so for example one
of my students said last week ah my
favorite place in the earth is the
mountains so I said wow you went in the
earth it’s amazing but I think now he’ll
never forget because we laughed about it
he’ll never forget that he should say
wow my favorite place on earth is the
mountains though because we had fun
about it
ah he I think he’ll never forget it so
having fun is really important maybe
you’ve been playing a game yeah playing
a game in English yes yes which games
video games boobies are fun you could go
to a meet-up and play a board game haha
in English that would be very fun useful
so yeah keep it fun keep it fun keep it
light realize that yes you want to be
serious about studying English but you
have to enjoy yourself too or else
you’re not going to continue so let’s go
to the next step this is on the mind map
this is part 4 how to improve your
English even if you’re really busy I
know a lot of you are very busy
everyone’s busy right so the most
important thing for studying English if
you’re really busy is what Dan said
what was that expression you used use it
or lose it use it or lose it and you
also said the bite-sized chunks oh yes
yes
it’s practice English in bite-sized
chunks yes and manageable something
sustainable yes
something sustainable so using it in
bite-size chunks small pieces and I’m
really excited because on the course
that we made together 30 days of English
we did all of the hard work for you so
that you can improve your English just a
few minutes every day while you’re
eating breakfast or commuting to work
it’s something that you can use and you
won’t feel stressed about how much
information you need to learn every day
so in in this idea you can use all three
tips we’re talking about today in the
course you’ll learn speaking from
hearing natural conversations how to use
specific expressions from conversations
and you’ll get really valuable feedback
because we said that’s really important
right yeah getting feedback is so
important so having someone to tell you
hey it sounds a little strange when you
say that you should say this instead so
in the course thirty days of English
that we put together for you we will
give you feedback you’ll hear
conversations you’ll learn new
expressions and that’s so relieving
because you don’t need to worry about
what you should be doing and I have a
special exciting thing to share with you
yes because you are here wonderful
people who have asked great questions in
this course I have a special gift for
you some free things I want to offer you
so usually in our 30 days of English
course there are how many conversation
videos are there there’s 12
yeah there’s 12 conversation videos 12
expression videos where you can learn 24
new expressions with us and for quick
response videos so those are going to be
speaking videos where you can answer
some questions and record your voice and
then send it to me and I’ll give you
some of that personal feedback we were
talking about so you’ll get that
personalized feedback but
have some free things I’d love to share
with you so for the next 24 hours from
now about 24 hours I’m going to share
with you for free a super English
membership so super English membership
is for extra conversation videos and for
expression guide downloads and then mp3s
mp3s is a new addition for the course
and the mp3s are where you can download
the mp3 for each video and listen to it
so if you have time to watch the video
great but if you have just time to
listen to an mp3 while you’re waiting in
line or while you are falling asleep or
listening to my voice in your dreams you
can listen to the mp3 so it’s another
addition for super English members that
I want to give you for free and usually
people have to pay 15 dollars for this
edition but it’s free excellent over 20
bro yes only for 24 hours but I want to
give you two more things one of them is
the audiobook so a lot of you have read
my free ebook 5 steps to becoming a
confident English speaker but there’s
also a 22 minute audio book that goes
with that and the audio book is usually
seven dollars and fifty cents but I want
to give it to you for free so you can
listen to it and enjoy it and to thank
you for being on this webinar so we have
super English Membership a free ebook
audiobook download and finally this is
the most exciting one I’m looking
forward to is free 10 minute lesson with
me on skype so this is exciting because
usually this costs about ten dollars for
10 minutes and you’ll have a chance to
meet with me on skype ask me any
questions I can give you feedback for
your speaking and you’ll be able to
listen and hear a native English speaker
maybe some of you have never spoken with
a native English speaker before so it’s
a great chance to test it out for 10
minutes not too long
too short so it’ll be a good chance for
a lot of you so I am really excited to
share this with you and in the mind map
I gave you a link where you can go to
that and I’ll send it again when we
start answering questions I’ll start
I’ll give you the link so that you can
join the 30 days of English and get all
of those extra free things super English
membership audiobook and the ten minute
Skype I would love to meet you on skype
it would be great maybe if you’re lucky
Dan will be there too but we don’t know
definitely you can meet me and yes so
this is our special gift to you and all
of the tips we’ve given you today I hope
really helpful for you I’d like to
answer some questions now yeah let’s
take a look at them yes let’s look at
these questions Dan’s going to help read
the questions and some of these we
probably already answered during our
presentation but if there are any
questions we haven’t answered yet let’s
give it a chance and answer that let’s
see yes would you like to Rita this is
from Jefferson Silva okay so it says I
have a lot of difficult to heard English
so I think you mean I have difficulty
listening and understanding so what
would you recommend
aha what would you recommend for
listening and understanding English well
I think what we talked about a 70% rule
that’s really important because if
you’re listening to native English TV
show but you only understand 70% it’s
going to be difficult to get the 80%
more so I recommend listening to
something that is closer to your level
and after this presentation I can send
you some links to websites where you can
listen to conversations or you can
listen to like a dialogue or short story
with different levels so maybe if you
are a beginner you can listen to
beginner stories and then you can
improve your English in that way so I
recommend using something that’s closer
to your level and I
would also recommend maybe just practice
practice track as we said hard truth the
only way you can really get better is to
listen more hmm and regularly so it’s
very difficult but it’s start at a level
you can understand most of it but
eventually try to keep on going and
build yourself up and then you also have
to practice speaking with real people so
actually speaking yourself knows
actually doing it creates uh and
speaking it will help your listening to
so just general practice yes great
question Jefferson let’s go to the next
question all right we have evaldo evaldo
hello London book Korea yes Korea maybe
I think you’re from Brazil okay let’s
see what does she say would you like to
research do you think music it could be
an effective for learning English or
better improve ha ha music could be
effective for learning English better
improving yes definitely I think
learning English is a great way to hear
the rhythm and to memorize the words
well especially if you really enjoy it
then you will listen more and you can
maybe buy or find the lyrics online and
read the lyrics and speak the lyrics and
sing the songs your I think the only
negative thing about music is that
sometimes the lyrics are like poetry so
maybe it’s it’s good grammar but it’s
more poetic grammar so that’s just
something to keep in mind hmm yes maybe
not conversational English but you can
certainly learn idioms or phrases right
right stuff like that I know I listen to
a lot of French music and I love singing
along with it and hearing phrases that I
already know in the music so yes go
ahead and listen to music let’s see what
is another great question we have mm-hmm
all right let’s see we have how do i
improve my speaking oh I hope that you
learned some tips in this presentation
already
Oh
all right we have a good question here
from less less sick let sick mystic I
hope I said your name correctly house
key quite cows key sounds like a coke
Red Cross key good try let’s see she
says he says hmm I’m not sure I think he
you think he alright
this wonderful English Learner says I
started learning whole phrases with
particular words I’d like to remember I
use flashcards to remember them what are
your methods for this so what are your
methods for learning particular words
and learning you said you’re learning
them with the whole phrase the whole
phrase so I think you’re on the right
path the way not to learn words is just
to memorize the word there’s no context
there’s no idea how to put them into a
sentence so you’re on the right path I
think it’s a very good thing to do for
beginners especially flashcards you know
just to try to remember very basic or
very important phrases that’s very good
you were going to use important phrases
all the time but again for fluently
speaking it you have to really practice
and do it sure maybe you can read the
flashcards out loud using those steps of
listening and reading speaking so using
the flashcards to be able to read so
learning the vocabulary words in whole
phrases sentences even a story that’s
better the more context you have the
better all right let’s see what is
another question right can you continue
let’s see I like this one though speak
this is my afraid oh alright listen I
think you mean you are scared of
speaking
alright we have a good question here
Marcelo Barbosa so are eight boys
alright he says speak this is my afraid
I think you mean to say I am afraid of
speaking more I’m scared of speaking I’m
scared of speaking yes yes and that’s
very difficult a lot of people are in
the same boat so don’t worry a lot of
people feel similarly but you know what
it’s best just to try just to try to
speak maybe to yourself this actors
reading a book out
out and just use your mouth in that way
yes maybe find a friend you like and try
to speak English with him or her first
somebody you feel comfortable with yeah
I think if you feel afraid to speak
follow those three steps first listen
then read out loud so that you get used
to hearing your voice speaking and then
try to speak with someone so Marcello
that’s a wonderful question and a lot of
people here wrote similar things they
feel afraid to speak so I hope that that
advice is helpful for a lot of other
people let’s see what some other people
have said here all right all right we
have ha ha very general yes many people
had a similar question to you Marcello I
feel worried about speaking I feel
scared about speaking how can I improve
so I hope we gave a lot of tips already
about that let’s see this is like
grammar aha so we have mindo Marcellus
you know I hope I said that right do you
know so as you know says so I think I
will not get well structure the sentence
it makes me give up talking to someone
hmm so I think you mean I think my
sentence structure isn’t good our
grammar my grammar isn’t good and I I
give up speaking with people because I
feel frustrated so basically you are
scared to make mistakes oh that’s
interesting
grammar mistakes sure giving up speaking
with someone and I really encourage you
to try to find someone to speak with who
you won’t feel stressed speaking with
maybe that’s going to be someone in a
meetup group from Meetup calm maybe
that’s going to be online but if you are
giving up speaking with someone because
you’re so worried about your sentence
structure just try to find someone who
you can speak with and you’re not going
to feel stressed with because stress is
not going to help yes we have a saying
in English take baby steps which means
try to take a small step if you want to
improve your grammar or structure don’t
take a big step and feel very scared
right
maybe just take a small step try to
listen to something regularly uh maybe
speak with somebody online and again a
friend or somebody who who you are more
comfortable making a mistake with by
step and you also have to remember
everybody makes mistakes yes yes I make
English mistakes oh I am a very good
English speaker
he has everyone makes mistakes alright
let’s go to the next question all we
have a nice comment from Marcia Lewis he
says I bet you will open your coffee
shop oh yes yes yes alright and we have
another question from Allah from evaldo
thank you she says I’ve been to Madison
Wisconsin once are there any
similarities between this and your city
oh I’m sorry it is warmer
oh it’s warmer I’ve never been to
Madison Wisconsin but what we know about
Madison Wisconsin is it it is very cold
for much of the year yes yes it’s very
cold so let’s see we have another
question here
aha would you like to read this question
hi this is from Jer
where I you know I you I don’t know
maybe we need to practice our Spanish or
Portuguese I think so yeah like I
realized I understand you better than
other people
Oh I think your accent is perfect tone
perfect to me Oh to me oh thank you
I’d like to know where you are born what
city do you live it sounds like there is
a perfect accent for each ear I love you
so much thank you
Jerry from Brazil oh thank you EJ oh
that’s very strong feelings so I’m glad
that you can understand my accent I hope
you can understand damn - we have very
Jin general American accents nothing too
strong nothing too specific we would say
um maybe a Midwestern accent in America
yeah like a standard a movie or news
broadcast accent nothing too strong so I
was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in
the north
and I moved to the south when I was
really young
so I don’t really have a northern accent
or southern accent just from anywhere
what what about you and I was born in LA
in California
but I was five years old when I left so
I don’t remember California very much
yes yeah I would say we also probably
sound very clear because we are trying
to speak clearer now so there are many
search situations where people mumble in
English so people who speak English are
very bad at taking words and smashing
them together so nobody understands them
so yeah a lot of people speak very
quickly and take words and put them
together and it can be confusing but I
know we try to make it a little easier
for this these kinds of videos sure
having some natural conversation but
also having something that you can
understand because like I said about 70%
I want you to understand at least 70% so
that you can improve that 30% more that
will be really helpful
hmm so all right let’s see if we have
any other questions and then I think it
might be time for us to go so Lizzy if
you have any final questions you can ask
them in the question question box and
what about vocabulary okay we have a
question about how to learn how do you
remember it okay
I think it was uh-huh all right Amir
Amir Wadi yes Amir Amir says so what is
the best way to remember vocabulary well
in my opinion there is not one perfect
way to remember vocabulary because it’s
going to depend your learning style but
there are definitely ways that don’t
work so like we said I don’t recommend
memorizing a list but one of the better
ways to learn vocabulary is to learn
phrases or learn words in a story or in
a conversation so for example in the
course we talked about in the 30 days of
English course then a nine
talk about a specific topic for each
video so one topic we talked about like
friendship and we use a lot of
friendship words in the video like
respect a good listener kind gentle same
interest we use a lot of words about
that topic so that’s a great way to
learn vocabulary is in context so don’t
study vocabulary words in a list or
you’ll probably be very bored it is also
difficult to remember vocabulary I think
if you have too much pressure you have
to maybe feel a little more relaxed
there’s not a big test you have to study
for and you’re you are studying all the
vocabulary where it’s you know you have
to really be wanting to learn the
vocabulary and having it be part of your
life part of your habit you know that’s
why we said make it part of your routine
and your habit and that will be more
sustainable so yeah sure if you have a
list of maybe five words in one day and
you want to use those words throughout
the day make a little game of it right
so maybe you could make it more fun so I
think that’s a good way to remember to
our shortcut is on some words great yes
and thank you everyone who wrote some
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