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  • Hi good morning or good afternoon or even good evening - depending of course on where

  • you are!

  • For me it's good morning, and I have to say that today the weather is amazingly bad.

  • We're actually in the middle of a thunderstorm here in Tokyo so if it's very noisy in the

  • background, if you can hear the thunder and things in the video I apologise for that!

  • In today's lesson I'm going to answer a question from one of my YouTube viewers.

  • This question is from MrWarrior12345 and he asked "How to improve fluency?" and "Does

  • reading loudly help?"

  • OK, so improving fluency and about reading loudly or reading out loud.

  • I'm going to answer this question backwards. So first of all, does reading loudly or does

  • reading out loud help.

  • I'M going to say yes, it does.

  • I think different English teachers say different things and certainly when I was taking my

  • masters I read different things and some people said it's a waste of time and some people

  • said it's very useful.

  • I think yes, it is kind of useful.

  • Possibly not for reading comprehension.

  • Because when you're reading out loud, especially as a learner, what often happens is that you

  • just concentrate on saying the words correctly that you don't get the meaning.

  • This is definitely the case for me reading Japanese.

  • Still, I think it's good for just getting used to speaking and using your voice.

  • And I will say that if you're going to read out loud do it with a big loud voice.

  • Really project your voice as much as you can.

  • I think that is quite beneficial.

  • OK, how to improve fluency.

  • Well, first of all there is no definite answer to this, and really the only way is to just

  • do it, to just use English practise makes perfect as it were.

  • You just have to accept that in the beginning you're going to suck at speaking English.

  • But practise makes perfect.

  • Of course, fluency doesn't refer to just speaking.

  • It refers to all of the skills.

  • Reading writing listening speaking and thinking as well.

  • But the way I think about this is... muscle training.

  • Think of muscle training

  • Actually I am the worst person in the world to talk about muscle training because

  • I mean, look at me

  • I have no muscle whatsoever

  • But if you want to build muscle

  • If I wanted to get some muscle on my skinny arms

  • Lifting really light tiny weights that are too light for me are not going to help

  • It's useless

  • The reason why is because you have to stress the muscle

  • If I want to build muscle I need to lift weight that are heavy for me

  • I have to push my muscles beyond their limits

  • I have to apply stress and push them past what they are already capable of

  • And by doing that

  • Well, with muscle training what I actually do is create lots of tiny tears in the muscle

  • tissue

  • In the fibre

  • And when it heals it heals bigger and stronger

  • Able to now cope with that new limit

  • So to make it bigger again I now have to push it past that limit again

  • Building fluency in English kind of the same sort of thing really

  • You have to push yourself beyond your limits

  • Doing what is comfortable to you and doing what is easy to you all the time

  • Is not going to help you improve

  • You have to

  • Again

  • Break the limits and go beyond that

  • I always recommend a two way approach to learning English

  • I've made videos about this before

  • And maybe I'll make some more videos in the future

  • By a two way approach I mean

  • Short periods of very intense concentrated focused study or practise

  • Followed by much longer periods of very relaxed English use

  • Exposure

  • That might mean just chatting in English or listening to music in English or watching

  • TV or reading a book or whatever

  • But you've got these two periods

  • Very short intense practise follows by long periods of relaxation

  • And again going back to the muscle training idea

  • I guess it's the same really

  • Because you have the very short intense practice sessions where you're lifting the muscles and

  • pushing your muscles past their limits

  • And then you have the long relaxation period

  • Both of these are necessary

  • Well actually not a trainer or a muscle trainer or anything like that so correct me if I'm

  • wrong!

  • But both of these periods are necessary

  • Certainly for learning English you have these very intense periods

  • Where you push yourself past your limits

  • And then you have the longer periods of relaxation

  • Kind of for healing, I guess

  • Just to change the metaphor very slightly

  • Learning a musical instrument is very similar to learning a language

  • And actually learning anything really words on the same kind of principle

  • Building muscle is not learning something as such

  • But learning is all kind of the same

  • In... What year was it?

  • In 1993

  • There was a group of researchers

  • A group of psychologists

  • Psychologists?

  • Scientists?

  • Psychologists. I'm going to go with psychologists.

  • Anyway, they were researchers and they wanted to find out why some violinists became very

  • good violinists but others became remarkable violinists

  • We're talking world class professionals

  • So we've got these two groups of violinists

  • Some are good but some are remarkable

  • And they wanted to know what is the difference between these two groups of people?

  • Why does this group become so remarkable?

  • And they found that the group of violinists which became very good

  • I mean, they are good, they're professional standard

  • This group spent a lot of time practising

  • No surprise there

  • They spend a lot of time practising the violin

  • The group who became remarkable on the other hand

  • They also spent a lot of time practising

  • But actually their practise sessions where much shorter

  • And they didn't spend as much time practising overall as the good group

  • But their practise sessions were very very short very concentrated very intense focused

  • practise

  • That was the main different between the two

  • This group practised a lot, but their practise wasn't so intense

  • Whereas this group practised less but their practise was extremely intense and extremely

  • focused

  • And learning anything is really the same

  • And certainly learning a musical instrument and learning English is very very similar

  • Short intense practise sessions followed by longer relaxed exposure and usage session

  • In some future videos I'll teach you some specific techniques that you can use for building

  • fluency

  • Again fluency doesn't mean just speaking

  • It means reading or writing or listening or thinking in English or anything

  • Speaking as well

  • For speaking, one technique I recommend is of course shadowing

  • And I've made videos about that before

  • I will make some more in the future

  • I'll also teach you some other techniques for speaking and for these other skills

  • So I think that is about it for today's lesson

  • There doesn't seem to have been too much thunder and lightning whist I've been recording so

  • hopefully it's not too noisy in the background

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  • And if you have any feedback or any opinions of your own about today's lesson content

  • Leave that comment below this video

  • And I will see you in the next lesson!

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英語流暢筋肉:大きくて強い筋肉を作って、英語を流暢に話せるようにしよう!堂々とした英語を話す (The English Fluency Muscle: build it big and strong and speak English fluently!! @doingenglish)

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