Name: The Secret to Speaking Fluent English
Uploaded: 2026-02-03T23:59:47.000Z
Duration: 20 min 27 s
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Hi, my name is Nati and I'm from Thailand.

Past simple

Many years ago, my spoken English was pretty bad.

I had a lot of trouble expressing myself in English.

But then I found a way to improve my spoken English, and

I managed to become fluent while living in Thailand.

The methods I use can be done at home from anywhere in the world.

And in this video, I'm gonna tell you how you can do the same.

First, let me tell you the most important secret.

To speak English well, you need to build unconscious knowledge in English.

If you want to speak English fluently, you need a high level of unconscious knowledge in English.

Well, unconscious knowledge is the ability to do something without conscious thought, is the ability to perform a task automatically.

For example, riding a bicycle, playing a musical instrument, and speaking your native language.

To use the knowledge, you don't have to think about it.

You don't have to focus your attention on it.

That's why you can ride a bicycle and talk to someone at the same time.

You don't have to focus on the movement of your legs.

It's also why musicians can sing and play the instrument at the same time.

With enough practice, the skill becomes automatic.

And so the hands and fingers can now move automatically.

Now think about how you speak your first language.

When you talk in your native language, do you think about grammar rules?

Do you think about syntax or sentence structure?

No, you don't think about any of that, Right?

But for some reason, every sentence that comes out of your mouth is grammatically correct.

Even though you're not thinking about grammar, everything you say makes sense grammatically.

Well, it's because you have a high level of unconscious knowledge in your native language.

So if you want to speak English well, you need to increase your unconscious knowledge in English.

If you do that, speaking English will feel natural and automatic, much like speaking your first language.

So how do you acquire unconscious knowledge?

Unfortunately, this is very difficult to do.

The problem is that this type of knowledge cannot be taught.

You can improve it by reading grammar books or watching grammar lessons on YouTube.

If you do that, you will acquire a different type of knowledge called conscious knowledge.

To use the knowledge, you have to think about it, you have to focus your attention on it.

This means that when you speak English, you have to think about grammar.

You have to decide what tense to use and all that stuff.

And that doesn't work, because when you're talking to Someone you don't have time to think about grammar.

If the other person says something to you or asks you a question, you have to respond immediately.

Sadly, many people love studying grammar.

They love watching lessons about tenses, prepositions, adjectives, and so on.

They believe that it will make them speak better.

What they don't realize is that the knowledge they gain through study is conscious, non automatic knowledge, which is not very useful in spoken English.

The thing is, speaking a language involves two parts of the brain, the conscious part and the unconscious, automatic part.

When you speak your first language, the conscious part focuses on the information that you want to communicate, while the unconscious part focuses on the grammar.

This coordination allows you to speak fluently.

If you want to say something, you can just say it.

And the unconscious part will make sure that your speech follows the grammar rules.

But what happens when a grammar nerd, you know, someone who studies a lot of grammar, what happens when they try to speak English?

The conscious part now has to focus on the information and the grammar at the same time.

It has to focus on two things simultaneously, which is impossible to do.

This is why many students speak poorly despite knowing all the grammar rules.

Instead, you have to learn English the same way you learn your first language.

We call this way of learning unconscious learning.

In this context, the word unconscious means unaware.

So unconscious learning means you are unaware that you're learning something.

The learning takes place outside of your awareness.

One example of this way of learning is listening to a conversation in English.

When you listen to a conversation, your goal is not to learn English, but

But as you listen, as you focus on the information, the unconscious part of your brain is learning English behind the scenes.

You may not be aware of it, but your brain is learning things like grammar, vocabulary, and

This is how you learn your first language.

You learned by listening to people talking over and over.

And you didn't try to memorize or understand any rules.

You just focused on the information and let your brain learn the language in the background.

So remember, when you learn English unconsciously, you get unconscious automatic knowledge.

When you learn English consciously by studying grammar, you get conscious, non automatic knowledge.

Now, there are two methods you can use to build unconscious knowledge.

These are the only two methods I use to become fluent in English.

The second One is input driven speaking practice.

Listening is a very popular method for learning English.

Everybody tells you to listen to English, but is it really necessary?

I mean, what if you're not looking to improve your listening?

If your goal is to improve your speaking, why do you need to spend time listening?

Even if improving your listening is not your goal, you still need to listen to English on a regular basis.

In fact, it's impossible to become fluent without a lot of listening.

Regular listening makes it easy to improve your speaking.

You see, the English language is very complex.

If you don't listen to English very much, you'll never become familiar with the complexity of the language.