Thank to all your guys is support and love for what we're doing for helping us to really bring it more fun ways.

Thio motivate learners all around the world so they get out of the costume to go beyond classroom and actually make English part of their life.

All right, And maybe today's lesson is going to be a little bit more difficult because there's no subtitles.

We almost always have subtitles on the video, and today you don't.

But I will go slow.

I'll try to speak at like teacher speed, and hopefully you'll understand, at least like 60 toe 90% of what I'm saying.

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And in case you just jumped into this and you're not sure what exactly we're doing today in this YouTube live.

So I actually asked you guys on our YouTube community for some questions for things that are difficult too confusing for you in English, and I actually chose the ones that were the most popular.

So they got the most likes and the ones that I just thought in general were the best that might be the most useful for the most people.

And so I want to keep this just 15 20 minutes so that people who don't have a lot of time we'll still be able to get some value out of this.

So I'll try to go through as many of those questions as possible on drily, thanks to all of you that actually spent the time to think of great questions and to write to me, all right, and I'll be sure to mention who the original question came from.

But I'm sure that many of you will have the same question.

All right, so without further ado, let's just jump into the 1st 1 all right?

So Julianne, she asked.

What inspired you to make videos here?

So it's not too often on our videos.

They're usually very focused.

I don't talk too much about myself, but my name's Ethan, and I'm actually one of the co founders of real life English.

And really learning for TV series is actually a part of real life English.

That's really what we started with.

We started about seven years ago in Boaters on to Brazil, and it was me and my business partner, Justin, who is actually in the live chat right now so he can say hi to you all.

And we're both from the United States.

But we were teaching English in Brazil, and we met there and actually just in with some other with some other Americans Australians that were living there in Belarus.

Entre Brazil was organizing some English events, and I started going to them, and I just saw Wow, this is such a great way to help people to learn English because we would get together in a fund space and do some different activities.

And Brazilians whose first language is Portuguese would actually get t speak in English during these events, and it wasn't a fun setting.

So we saw that people would really change what they thought about the language because they're actually putting it to use.

And maybe you've had some sort of experience like this where you've gotten to go somewhere and maybe speak with other people who are learning English or speak with natives.

And you're just like, Wow, this is actually like a tool for communication.

It's so much different than what you learned in the English classroom, right?

So basically, from that, uh, we started at the company real life English and we started just doing a blogged and kind of giving advice to learners.

They're in Brazil and it started growing all over the world with the community.

And a few years later, we're way actually started experimenting with teaching with a few beers, TV series, friends.

We were already doing this in our classes.

We saw that learns to get a lot of value out of it because they saw, you know, that it wasn't just rammer rules.

It wasn't just vocabulary, but this was actually the living and breathing language that the natives that people in United States or in the country that that Syria's comes from.

That's what they actually are using.

That's a real language, and that really would help them to learn so much more about the language as it's really spoken, they could remember it better.

And so we actually developed a course called Fluent With Friends to teach with this to actually take the TV series Friends, which we met so many people who had really beautiful, fluent English.

We asked them, How did you get such good English?

And they would say, You know, I I, uh, really just love the language.

I like TV series and watched all of friends, and we heard that so many times, like there's something to this and we actually looked into it.

And there was a lot of scientific data showing the Friends is probably the best TV series out there for learning English just because of the language that's used in a the situation of getting together in New York City.

And so we developed this course.

We saw learners from all over the world and benefit out of it and basically is an experiment.

We decided to take the format that we have for the course and bring it onto YouTube.

And basically we ran one experiment.

We did one video, then we did a couple more and they just started taking off, meaning that a lot of people started watching them and commenting and saying how great it was.

And, baby, that's a history we did that, I believe two years ago.

Maybe we're coming up on three years and now the last year or so the last year and 1/2 I actually took over actually hosting the videos, and we have to video editors That helped me a lot.

Maxine Easy.

They helped to actually bring all of the all of the different content together and to make it into what you see.

But it's been two years that I've actually been doing the videos and the voice and everything, and basically, since then we've gone from being just 20,000.

I know some of you told me that you've been here from the very start to being the one million last week.

So again, thanks so much for all of your love and support.

This is, like, really huge that in just two years we would never have expected to be able to make such a huge impact here.

All right, so, Julianne, thanks so much for your question again, and I'll move on to this 12 maybe some more technical questions.

But that's a little bit about the story of real life English and Learnings with TV series.

So the next question is.

Is watching your lessons and TV series and movies enough to make me fluent?

Am I going to be able to speak like them like people in the TV series fluently?

And even better?

So basically, the answer.

Oh, this is, by the way, this is from Ahmed.

Thank you.

I meant for this question.

And the answer to this question is, no.

But so I'll get the but in a little bit.

So no matter how many videos, whichever channel that you're watching, just watching videos, just studying books, just going to classes that's not going to make influence.

It's just impossible.

You can watch hours and hours and hours of videos here on YouTube.

You can study grammar books for hours and hours and hours.

You will not get Florence.

It's basically impossible.

Uh, just just watching, just stunning.

It's not enough.

But first of all, before.

I kind of like, get more into this answer.

I wanted to say What is fluency?

Because ah, lot of you out there.

A lot of Lerner's here English fluency, and they think that means speaking perfect like a native.

So first of all, natives don't speak perfectly.

We make mistakes all the time.

And really, being perfect isn't really the goal, because mistakes are just so important.

If you want to keep improving, you have to make mistakes, and you have to learn from those mistakes.

Correct those mistakes.

And by doing that, that's how you're going to actually advance and get in your fluency.

What is fluency?

Actually, so it's not speaking perfectly.

Fluency is the confidence aspect of it.

So it's when you get to the point where you can have a conversation with someone and you know you're able to.

Maybe you don't know every word.

Sometimes you're missing a word.

Maybe.

Sometimes you make mistakes.

Sometimes you don't know the right way to conjugated verb er, to say something dramatically, but you're able to communicate in a very smooth, fluid way.

If you don't know how to say something, you can explain it in a different way.

And basically this allows you just have a conversation for however long.

So be that 10 minutes an hour, two hours you're just being conversationally fluent.

And of course, there's different different degrees of fluency.

And there's someone who could be really, really fluent, and they almost sound like a native.

And I've met people like this who, even without living United States, are able Thio get a level fluency where they almost trick me into thinking that they're a native speaker and it's actually kind of funny because, like I said before, we got the idea for fluent with friends because we met so many people like this.

We just had this beautiful fluency and they had watched all the syriza friends sometimes multiple times.

Uh, but that's fluency, so you could have a low level fluency, and it would just mean that you can confidently have a conversation, and that should be your initial goal.

So can you get this just by watching TV series just by watching videos on YouTube?

Of course not.

If you want to get able to.

If you want to be able to speak English fluently, you have to speak right, you have to practice the language, and this might sound difficult because a lot of people think I have to speak it.

So I have to go to America.

That's really expensive.

But, no, you don't have to necessarily go to America.

You can live in a small town where there's no native speakers and you can be able to get start to get practice and start to speak fluently.

How do you do this?

So the first way, if you don't have anyone around you that you could practice with, I imagine you live in a small village or something like that.

Speak to yourself.

Actually grab a recorder and record yourself speaking and take different questions, different topics and just start talking about it by yourself.

This is really great if you have a commute, So a commute, if you don't know it, is when you have to drive or take the bus or walk toe work or to school or whatever when you go to the grocery store or anything like that.

When you're, uh, basically by yourself, you can grab your quarter or or even just in your head or even just speaking lowly into yourself.

Just start speaking about something.

Ask yourself a question.

Uh, think about some something that you read in the newspaper and just comment on it, and although you're not going to get the feedback, you're not having anyone correct you.

This still helps to get fluent because you're practicing, taking what's in your mind and producing words with it.

And a lot of you say like that.

It's really difficult for you to actually take what's in your head and speaking because it's like you just forget everything.

Well, this is a really great way to start thinking in English and to get better at that, to get better at the actual speaking, taking what's in your head and being able to have it come out of your mouth.

All right, so that would be the first thing.

The second thing is, don't just depend on natives, so you know it could be really expensive to get a teacher or something like that.

I do highly recommend that if you can afford it, get a teacher because they'll have a lot of good teacher will make all the difference.

But even if you have other people in your English class.

If you're younger or you have other friends that you know that speak English or if you're in a bigger city, there's usually like some sort of different language exchange or English speaking events that you could go to look for these opportunities.

Look for other learners, even if they speak your own language and be really proactive about being able thio, get the opportunity to speak with other people.

If you do this, then you're going to really see, like If you imagine you could do this every single day or even just a couple of times a week just within a couple weeks or a month, you're going to notice a huge difference in your ability to take your thoughts, to take everything that you've been studying in English and actually the old communicate with it.

All right, so, uh, basically, that's the short answer.

It wasn't so short, but, uh, just by watching TV, Siri's just by watching movies, you cannot get fluent.

But when you do this, in addition to doing things to practice speaking, it will make a humongous impact on your English fluency.

Why is watching TV series so useful or movies?

Because I know a lot of you enjoy watching movies, too.

I generally recommend TV series over movies because movies are really long.

They dedicate a large amount of time tow, watch and really TV series you can, especially something like friends or any sitcom like modern family like Big Bang theory.

You can watch short chunks of it and you know that's all right.

But with the movie, usually you want to watch it all the way through.

It's very long.

It's more requires more time, which a lot of us don't have.

But anyway, of watching TV series is really useful because this gets you inside of that kind of native speaking world.

So even when you're if you're speaking, you're speaking all wasted on Native.

You have this input of the TV series where you're getting kind of that flexible, everyday language that the natives use.

All right, so I'm not going to say anything else about that because I think that could be a video in and of itself.

Just why is TV series so useful for learning?

But that's kind of the short answer of it, and I think this leads greatly into the next question which was from.

Actually, there were two questions that were very similar.

So Lena asked, um, what would you like, Thio?

Sorry.

Let me ask that again.