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  • well hello there i hope you are enjoying

  • a fantastic day I'm Drew Badger the

  • world's first and number one English

  • Fluency Guide and in this video i'm

  • going to answer a question i receive

  • well a lot but I asked some people on

  • Facebook recently for some questions and

  • this was one that I received both from

  • MC and from Barbara and this is how do I

  • use words in the right order in English

  • sentences and now I know this is a

  • tricky problem because most people again

  • you're learning things a traditional way

  • and really what happens is you're

  • learning things through translations and

  • then basically you're adding another

  • step when you have to speak so let's say

  • I'm trying to learn Japanese but I'm

  • learning it through english i would

  • think a sentence in english in my head

  • and then I would translate try to change

  • the order of things around in Japanese

  • you know in my head and then try to

  • speak and hopefully I set it correctly

  • but what we want you to do is actually

  • to just use all of these things in the

  • right order the right way automatically

  • and spontaneously so you need to develop

  • the habit this is aware you hear me use

  • a lot on this channel in all of my

  • videos I talk about developing the

  • habits of a native speaker so let's talk

  • about how you develop the habit of using

  • things in the right way now specifically

  • for using the right order what you have

  • to stop doing is learning things through

  • your native language so if you're

  • watching videos or learning with lessons

  • or reading things that are teaching you

  • like using French or Spanish or

  • Portuguese or Italian whatever to learn

  • English you need to stop using that

  • because all it's doing is helping you

  • learn information but forcing you to

  • translate in your head before you speak

  • all of these waves like if you just want

  • to pass the test you don't care about

  • actually speaking then you pry shouldn't

  • be watching my videos anyway I'm all

  • about speaking confidence and fluency

  • but really you can use these lessons if

  • you just want to pass a test that's

  • perfectly fine but when you have a test

  • remember that you can read a question

  • try to take time translate into your

  • head and then and then write the answer

  • down or choose the correct answer but in

  • a conversation you have to respond and

  • you have to speak confidently with

  • people you have to respond spontaneously

  • when someone says something to you you

  • don't want to wait you know a couple

  • seconds or even think

  • something great to say like after the

  • conversation is finished and maybe

  • you've had that experience before when

  • you're in a conversation somebody says

  • something to you and you think I don't

  • quite know how to say it maybe half an

  • hour later you think I had a great thing

  • to say but now the conversation is

  • finished and I can't do anything it's

  • like thinking of a great joke 10 minutes

  • too late and really it doesn't help you

  • out so here's how we do this there are

  • basically two steps to doing this and it

  • really just involves practice and

  • developing again to habit the habit

  • habit habit it's all about habits not

  • about informations about habit so the

  • habit here we want to focus on is how do

  • you use words in the right order

  • especially if you're going from a

  • language that maybe has things in the

  • opposite way like Spanish and English

  • are different but maybe Japanese in

  • English are similar because the

  • adjective comes before the now just as

  • an example but what I want you to do is

  • begin with the first step which is

  • moving always from simple to complex so

  • from a basic thing to a more difficult

  • one from a short thing to a long one and

  • then at every step that you're

  • increasing you should be practicing

  • variation so you can get maybe a a

  • better sense of how to use things

  • automatically so the first thing let's

  • say we're going to use a sentence let's

  • let's just build a sentence together so

  • we're going to build a sentence with car

  • so that's the thing we're talking about

  • that's the subject of the sentence so I

  • can just say the word car that's all I'm

  • going to say and I just want to say it

  • like loud and proud car car car car car

  • car and I'm just practicing saying that

  • don't worry we'll get to longer

  • sentences but you want to first if you

  • can't even say one word confidently it

  • doesn't matter about learning all these

  • other things or trying to say more

  • difficult sentences so remember the

  • first thing you're just saying car car

  • car now maybe I'm going to add some

  • variation into that I'm going to just

  • say a different word like banana banana

  • banana banana and I'm trying to say it

  • in different ways like banana like I'm

  • like stinking deeply like banana banana

  • or I'm scared like banana you know

  • you're just you're practicing with the

  • same word but you're just getting used

  • to saying these things and this is what

  • gets you flew and this is what helps you

  • play with the language and get

  • more confident about using a language so

  • we begin with our first word car we're

  • going to go back to it and now we have

  • to think like what kind of car are we

  • talking about we're talking about a car

  • the car depending on if it's just like a

  • any any car we have a specific car in

  • mind so maybe in my mind I'm thinking

  • about a specific car like the car and

  • maybe I could do this with other words

  • i'm going to use a little bit of

  • variation i could say a car or the car

  • or the banana or the tree the mouse the

  • dog the bird the chair the blackboard

  • the clock anything like this again i'm

  • just i'm taking this once i understand

  • the i'm talking about a specific thing

  • like the the the temperature the clock

  • the room you know the environment

  • whatever else it is you want to use but

  • you're again you're adding just one more

  • thing but practicing with a little bit

  • of that variation so always your you're

  • growing from a little bit more simple to

  • a little bit more complex but then

  • taking time at each level that you

  • improve to add a little bit of variation

  • so now let's continue so we've got the

  • car and let's make it a bit more

  • complicated the car I saw the car I saw

  • so we're talking about this thing and

  • then the relationship it has with you so

  • the car I saw the car I saw maybe I can

  • add some variation to this like the car

  • he saw the car she saw if I'm talking

  • about somebody else or I could say the

  • banana I saw its it's important when

  • you're introducing variation in two

  • sentences just so you get used to using

  • them that you just change one word so

  • the car I saw or the banana I saw or the

  • banana he saw so I'm just making these

  • one simple change or making one simple

  • change in these sentences and practicing

  • using them in the right order and you

  • can find sentences that just show the

  • sentence structure of something for

  • anything the important point is not just

  • to know it it's to actually practice it

  • so you use it automatically so let's

  • continue so we got car the car the car I

  • saw now where where did I see the car

  • we're going to think where did I see it

  • not the car I saw on the street the car

  • I saw on the street now we have an idea

  • of on the street that's a specific

  • occasion we have the relationship it's

  • like a car and myself so the car I saw

  • on the street the car I saw on the

  • street now we could say well I could I

  • could put some variation like the car I

  • saw in the garage the car I saw on the

  • bridge the car I saw under the water you

  • know whatever we're just changing the

  • sentence around so we get practice using

  • it and you can just do this you can talk

  • to yourself talk to a mirror talk to

  • your friends and say hey let me just

  • maybe tell you a few things you can even

  • just try typing this if you don't have

  • anybody right near you to practice

  • speaking with and you can do that

  • actually you should be doing that right

  • in the comments below this video you

  • should go down and type some different

  • things like the same way that you know

  • pick your own sentence create your own

  • thing write some variations about it so

  • far we've got the car I saw on the

  • street now what's what's like the

  • conclusion of this sentence why is this

  • information important the car I saw on

  • the street was red so that's the whole

  • sentence we're going to use the car I

  • saw on the street was red so I'm just

  • saying oh I saw a red car now you can

  • make a simple thing like this but again

  • this is just showing you how you can

  • make things a bit more interesting in

  • detailed but it's all just pieces of

  • information that you put in the sentence

  • but again the only way to actually use

  • these things confidently and maybe just

  • actually fluently in the conversation is

  • number one you have to practice using it

  • and you have to go from simple to

  • complex and then number two you're

  • introducing some variation in these as

  • you practice so the car I saw on the

  • street was read the car I saw on the

  • street was blue the cars to saw on the

  • street was a crazy mixture of different

  • colors so I can make it even longer and

  • more interesting and I'll do this in

  • Japanese as well just like think of a

  • sentence and like how can i how can I

  • manipulate that sentence in a particular

  • way but this is what you do if you want

  • to use things in the right order it's

  • not about learning the right order it's

  • about practicing the right border so

  • don't go out and try to learn a whole

  • bunch of new things until you can focus

  • at each step and then you can you can

  • know like exactly what level you're

  • struggling at because ok I can save the

  • car but I can't save the car I saw so

  • wherever you're struggling with that's

  • the exact point where you know you have

  • to make

  • progress and this is how you can improve

  • by yourself this is exactly what i did

  • in japanese without having a specific

  • teacher to say oh you shouldn't do that

  • i just look at examples and text books

  • or whatever and to say like i'm not

  • studying the textbook way i'm just

  • getting examples of correct speech and

  • then i would say okay like the banana is

  • blue then okay maybe the banana is red

  • ah so now I can make a different

  • sentence like that so this is exactly

  • how you practice to get the correct word

  • order in sentences and if you want to

  • become a consonant fluent speaker this

  • is how you do it so this is just one

  • specific problem and this is again how

  • you do it how you solve that and if

  • you'd like to learn even more about that

  • all of the things we help learners with

  • all of the different habits that people

  • need to develop these are all things

  • that we help people with with our

  • fluency quiz so if you want to take our

  • quiz and it will tell you exactly what

  • you specifically need to focus on

  • whether it's grammar or pronunciation or

  • you need to learn more vocabulary all of

  • these little things we teach you exactly

  • how to do it and it all works perfectly

  • because again it's the exact same way

  • native speakers learn anyway I don't

  • want to talk too much but what I would

  • you would like you to do is in the

  • comments section below this try writing

  • in its similar kind of thing come up

  • with your own sentences it can be

  • similar structure to what I have or you

  • can do it about something else but just

  • take a sentence and write down kind of

  • the pieces of it in order that you would

  • learn in these different things along

  • with some variation so that's the thing

  • I'd like you to do that'll be your

  • homework and whether you can use it when

  • you're practicing with someone or if

  • you're just writing it down in the

  • comments below the more you practice the

  • faster you get one it's that simple have

  • a fantastic day do click on the link

  • below or in the link in the description

  • or on the link i should say in the

  • description below this video to take our

  • free english fluency quiz and learn

  • exactly how to improve everything you

  • need to do so that you can start

  • speaking fluent english confidently i

  • look forward to seeing you in the next

  • video and i wish you a fantastic day bye

  • bye

well hello there i hope you are enjoying

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