English Grammar and Vocabulary Lesson: Learning is FUN! EP #2

let's see let's see all right okay I should be going yes we are and we are finally live we made it hello awesome people okay yes hello awesome people how you guys doing today sorry for this mess as we are starting I switched two devices on and they made a little sounding mess but anyway here we are welcome everyone how you guys doing hello lolly and hello to anyone else who is about to join us today is Saturday and we are once again here to improve our English right this is the reason why we are here and this is why we are having fun together right of course we are here to have fun too so today like just like the last time we're going to have two different sections in the first section I'm going to answer your questions and in the second section we're going to have fun together me and you playing a beautiful vocabulary game which is this one right here our vocabulary challenge it's gonna be a lot of fun just like the last time hello Sophie hello Irina welcome you guys welcome you all I think we are ready to begin our live so let's go with the questions right the first question is from Luis and Luis has a very interesting question I know it's a pretty small character I hope you guys can read it says my biggest difficulty is understanding native speakers in an informal everyday conversation due to phenomena best known as reductions and connected speech could you make a series of videos about this this is a very interesting topic and I know that many people hello Arian welcome with us I know that many people actually are just as curious as you are Luis to actually know about how reductions and connected speech work in English so I'm gonna do more than this I'm gonna I'm gonna give you three things today so first of all I'm gonna tell you that yes I'm going to make a series of videos on this topic also I'm going to give you some suggestions today so you can start straight away doing something for your pronunciation and lastly I'm also going well I went like they say above and beyond above and beyond means that I did something you don't expect I did something more than what you asked me and I'm going to tell you about it in just a second first of all I want to actually compliment with you because this message is very well written now I don't know if you wrote it yourself or maybe you got the help of some tools but it's a very very formal English like for example the the use of the word phenomena right this is something very very very very particular not many people actually use this word phenomena right for phenomena basically is something that is out of the ordinary and it's plural actually so there are the single word is phenomenon and the plural word is phenomena and phenomena is just a word to say just something that is out of the ordinary so and actually reductions and connected speech my friends are not out of the ordinary they are not out of the ordinary they may seem like something strange but actually reductions and connected speech are part of any language any language my friends so even your language for example Lolli's language is French in French there are reductions and there's connected speech in Italian I can tell you that there are reductions and connected speech I'm not I cannot speak about in the talking about Aryan because I know that you are from India but I'm quite sure you also have some reductions and connected speech and what about you Safi where are you from and because I want to know and I want to see because everybody should have some connected speech hello ideally had hello and welcome with our welcome with us I'm so happy to see you too so yes connected speech is when you connect every word with the next one and it's something that happens in any language not just of the English language any language to speak to be fluent you need to add one word to the next one this the whole word fluent right flu and what does it mean to be fluent fluent means to to flow like a river all right a river flows and if you are fluent it's because like you you connect every word to the next one so that you flow from a word to the next one to the next one to the next one so thank you thank you thank you very much for your compliments by the way so this is our connected speeches right and reduction is when you reduce a word because it's not necessary to to say it all like even if you say just a part of it you still understand how the word continues so they are part of any language so the first thing you can do is to start recognizing reductions and connected speech in your own language because if you do that then you can you already know what you need to do to do the same in English hello Giovanni hello from Greece hello my dear and welcome from Greece yes I'm sure that even Greece is made of connected speech and reduction I'm sure of it I will start again but first we want to talk about this time because it's so important so the first thing you want to understand when you connect the words is that they are literally all connected okay so for example I said connected okay but I connected it say connected okay connected okay I connected it connected it connected it right so everything is together everything is together so everything goes in the same block of words block of words I said block of words but together every every consonant every consonant is connected to the to the other word to the other vowel so block of words block of words block of words block of words right so if you say it this way it just flows right like a river and this is exactly the point of having a the point of being fluent because you want to flow right you want your words to flow nicely now let me see let me see so this is the second thing I did the first thing I said I'm going to I'm going to provide a series of videos on this topic the second is I give you a first thing to do the first thing you want to do it is to recognize connected speech and reductions in your own language reductions is for example in English is instead of saying I am you say I'm right instead of saying you are you say you're these are reductions so two words that are redacted into one word it's something that is present in all the languages as far as I know right so you want to find these things into your language this way you are more prepared to what you have to do to become fluent in English now the third thing I want to do is something beautiful because my friends I I have a city like in the course of the years I've perfected a system a method to actually teach you the right English pronunciation and this pronunciation right so like if you like the way I speak I can teach you to speak like I do I cannot teach you that like the American accent or I cannot teach you the British accent right but we don't even need these accents to be understood I guess you guys understand me right and and that's all you need to be able to communicate to be able to be fluent all you need is this kind of sounds right so if you want I can help you guys and to help you the most to be the most help to be of the most help for you guys I prepared something special in fact this is the this is this is YouTube right this is where you are right now so I created a special membership area where you can get special lessons one after the other in order to be fluent step by step to do that is very easy you just press this button here join and as you join we're going to be you're going to be received by a video from me of course and then here we have three ways to start learning English starter English learner English speaker if you already know how to put the words together this is what you need English speaker this is where I'm going to show you the magic of the fluency program which is a series of lessons interactive lessons where you have to practice with me so basically you're going to practice with me once a week for a whole hour all about pronunciation step by step sound by sound and this is absolutely fantastic all right because I'm gonna do it here on YouTube and because I can do it on YouTube I can keep a price very low right this is very low this is price this price is in euros so it's gonna be a different price in Indian it's gonna be a very different price I say Indian because I see here Aryan which is from India right at the same time so you guys to have a price that is low and this is important because this way I can be of service of many people right this is exactly what I wanted and here we are I can finally give you this this beautiful gift and I'm so just so happy about it so I really hope that this will help you no I don't hope that it will help you I hope you will get the opportunity to be helped okay I hope you will guys get the opportunity to be helped and really get the fluency you deserve so now on with the next question which is from hold on let me fix it because there's a little technical technical problem but we can fix it straight away okay here we go so let's go with the next question which is from Lolly hello Lolly and you're asking I'm learning English by myself on the internet and I am wondering if listening listening all right listening to different teachers so different accents like Canadian American and British is a good idea and yes yes it's a good idea it's a great idea the more Lolly and everyone else the more you guys are exposed to this language the more experience you you you have the more easier easier will be for you not only to speak the language but to understand very strange accents for example there are accents that are so strange because as long as you say Canadian American or British accent right but think of the think of the Australian accent Australian accent is a little bit is a little bit different to understand or the New Zealand accent or the Scottish the Irish accents oh my god guys those accents are very difficult so if you are exposed to a variety of accents then yeah of course this is perfect do it absolutely and I give you a secret I give you a secret go above and beyond right so go above and beyond so do more than this do more than this go above and beyond and search on YouTube topics you like topics you're interested in and search them in English so you have a lot of selection of videos that don't necessarily they're not necessarily there to teach you English they will speak faster right but this is good because if you want to learn real English of course you need to also know some you also know you also need to to be used to a faster speech right but at the same time they will be very useful because they will be on topics that interests you and this is invaluable really for let me give you an example of it so let's go back here on YouTube right and I'm not doing this like almost against myself right but it's very very important to be open to your interests you see here over the left-hand side you have different topics okay these are the major topics you can find on YouTube for example you have fashion and beauty now I'm just saying this because maybe you may be interested in fashion and beauty or anything else sport use gaming let's say fashion beauty just to stay on general right well here you have a list of a lot of videos right and they're all things that of course they will be they will be primarily in English language so they will be very useful for you but this is just a part of it because another more useful way to learn to use YouTube for you is to use the bar up here and go with search as you can see I use it a lot this is my personal search and the next since I'm researching for my next video which is gonna be on child CPT just so you know the last thing I searched it was right here and then of course I'm having other titles and things that I'm that I am personally interested in right and you can see it right here so I do it as I do it so you can right so you go here and you go with things you are interested in for example you have to maybe something broken okay maybe your phone broke okay your phone broke and so you can say how you can type how to fix my phone okay now I'm very generic because this is just an example right but if you go with how to fix my phone you're going to find a lot of shorts and video right that talk about how to fix how to repair a phone and this this kind of things are so important because they give you the possibility to be really really exposed to different accents styles and ways of explaining things and well this will open you guys to the world yes so go do it and have fun not after this video anyway after this streaming go on YouTube since you're already here and just search whatever topic interests you right now on with the next question which is from you Lali right and I love you're making so many questions this gives me the possibility to go deeper into topics that I'm sure many other people want to know about so here you're asking the difference between the words appliance and device and well we can do it absolutely we can definitely do that so oh by the way I wanted to say hi also to Manuel that comes from Colombia hello my friend hola how you doing welcome to this series of live and you right here and we are at the third question but in just a few minutes we're going to start our vocabulary challenge so I hope you Manuel are ready just like all of you guys because as soon as I finish answering this question we're ready for the game so let's go answer this question and of course when we when we are talking about vocabulary you already know what I'm about to do when I'm about to go right I'm about to go right here because the internet is the place you can also you can find any kind of thing related to vocabulary particularly Google images right so let's go with appliance right and let's go over images this is something you guys can do right you can do the same thing with many words with majority of the words and you can find exactly what it is right here in fact now let's do let's duplicate this one and let's go with device well now straight away you can see that there's a lot of difference in the objects we are presented right so here there are some some electronic devices so some smartphones some tablets some computers I'm sure you guys are very familiar with these things also here we have some electronic device actually here we have more electric devices right but look at the size of them these are like kind of they stay in the hands okay or not necessarily in the hand but they stay they stay within like they're pretty small anyway compared to the size of these these are appliances okay so these are appliances because they are big these are devices because they're small this is the first difference okay let's go a little deeper so you can actually understand the real difference or better first of all about these words I used to indicate something that is used for something else for example the fridge is useless on its own the fridge is useful because you can store food and it stays cold the washing machine is useful because it washes dishes so these are all appliances or also devices but the difference is that these are appliances because they are big these devices here are just as useful to do other things but they're smaller they're smaller in size in fact for example this you can't actually see this color so let's go with this one this is a brush pen all right this is a device it's a device because it's useful to do something for example to write down right or to color a surface so this is a device yes it's a device let me go with some other examples of devices for example let's go let me duplicate this page these are electronic devices okay but maybe we can say a screwdriver this is a device this is called screwdriver and it's a device because you need it to do something so it's like to say that device is like a tool but device is usually more complex than simple things for example this this is a device this is mostly or better like this is a device this is a tool a tool is simple a device is more complex so let me put tool here tools let's say tools yeah here we go as you can see tools are simple device devices are more complex appliances are very big devices so I think that here this way these two words actually these three words are perfect I guess you're done with this right I think that now everything is clear isn't it all right so see I think it's clear so if it's not clear just write it down in the comments right because right now we are ready for the game yeah we are ready for our vocabulary challenge so if this is the first time you're watching it I'm going to tell you very briefly how it works I'm going to in a minute I'm going to give you the first word right now sorry this one you know in a minute I'm going to give you a word but I'm not I'm going to make you I'm going to describe a word and you will need to guess the word I'm talking about okay so this is how it works very simple I'm gonna do it just a second so basically I will speak and speak and speak I will describe the words and then you will have to guess guessing well just by writing your answer down here in the chat box even the chat box or even in the comments if you're watching it as a replay you can still participate if you're watching it as a replay you can still participate to this game just by writing your guesses down in the comments below easy easy so I see that Lolly says that I was clear before this is awesome this means that we are ready to begin our game so let's go with the first word or something I haven't said something I haven't said before is that every word will be I'm going to take note of the person that guesses the word so we will see at the end of this and the end of this game in about 30 minutes we will see who is the winner so if you guys are ready to participate just type yes yes yes down here in the chat box so I know you guys are ready to begin this game right so type yes yes yes type yes type yes down here in the comments below in the chat box so I know that you guys are ready and we're going to start all right so I see the first yes coming in you guys if you want to participate just press just just just just just type yes this way I know that you guys are in the game awesome okay I see the second one too awesome meanwhile let's begin right so the first word is a noun and it's something pretty much everybody has in their houses so like if you live in a house you usually have this object it's it's part of a bigger object and it's used to store things so you can have many things inside it's as I said it's part of a bigger object and to to see this object you need to drag it and this is a word you probably don't know but it's okay you're going to learn it you need to drag it in order to actually see it you can store many things inside it's not a refrigerator and it's usually and this is a very big help I don't even know if I want to tell you about this help because it's very big it's usually well it's usually in the bedroom it can also be in the living room anyway and it can be and it's usually made of wood it's usually made of wood it can be in the bedroom or in the living room and actually it can also be in the kitchen now that I think about it you usually drag it to drag something is to to make it slide so you usually slide it you usually use you usually slide it open and inside you store many things you can store you say customer no no well well hold on the customer is basically a client of a restaurant or of a bar so I don't know if this is what you mean Manuel if you want to go with other words you guys you guys start typing whatever word you think it is cabinet it's not cabinet but you're not that far you're not that far you're not far you can store food inside but most most of the times you don't most of the times you store other things in this object and let's see what else well of course you can be you say guard I guess you might say wardrobe you know wardrobe wardrobe w-a-r-d right I guess this is this is like half Italian half English right word rope and a wardrobe is basically a closet which is a place where you store your clothes and it's not and it's not so something else it's something else actually but you guys are very close you guys are very close it's something that actually now I think I'm going to really reveal it if I say it but it's something present even here in my background this is very this is very revelatory right but at the same time this is the first word so it doesn't need to be too complicated yes a drawer arena yes that's right yes the first word was drawer well done congratulations of course that was easier right because I actually said that it was present here in the background right but at the same time yeah congratulations to you to actually solve this puzzle right congratulation really did you guys understand what it is so if you guys didn't understand what it is I'm going to show it to you and also some pictures okay so a drawer is this one here the one I'm indicating right now can you see this little cabinet right this is a cabinet right and the the one thing here that's a drawer you see there are two drawers all right and to use them you need to drag them up you need to slide them in order to open them right so so this is why you call it drawer but just just to make sure because it's a very interesting word let's go online so I can show you better so we said drawer right as you can see it's very clear right so there's no need to further explain right but what's interesting is to understand the word they use so I use also drag yeah not drag queen okay actually I mean to drag right and this is to drag right usually dragging is used for something pretty heavy right drawers aren't usually this heavy all right so drag is just a word you can use but you can also use the word slide and slide right slide is this one this is this motion okay slide is when something goes goes very smoothly right from one side to the other one very smoothly just like this little child here or this one to look how happy is the slide right so you can definitely slide a drawer right you slide this drawer you see to open it you slide it open right or you can also drag it right and the reason why it's called drawer is very interesting guys because you see it's called drawer you see here drawer right this means that the word before which is draw here the word before draw needs to be an action to draw there's no other way because otherwise it would have been a comparison right but here this is a noun so it's not a comparison between anything so for sure that's to draw and to draw is an action yes and this is to draw you may wonder why do you do you use an action to draw to talk about a drawer and by the way if you guys don't know when you add a little ER after an action you are talking about the thing or the person that does the action for example you guys are I'm sure you guys are very comfortable with this word player right for example he is a player Cristiano Ronaldo right he is a player right why is a player because he is the person who plays right so this is the thing who draws okay so this is the this is how I got that so now to draw right it's to to to draw is to basically carry something on a surface like a pencil right so you carry the pencil on a surface this is to draw right now look at this the interesting thing is that it's really it's just an image it's just an image because you draw the pencil on the paper just as you draw just as you draw the drawer on a slide and this is called a slide because you slide the drawer how many words how many words guys okay I hope you guys are following me too many words so we anyway we learned draw a draw slide drag too many that's it on with the next word are you guys ready are you guys ready for the next one let's do it so the second word is an action it's a great action it's a beautiful action it's an action I say that at least 90% of the people wanna do at least once a year come on once a year or more if you can less if you can't yet it's still something everyone wants to do and for a reason because it's a beautiful action when you do this action you I was about to say too much when you do this action you you move you move I was about to say too much okay so I need to say a little less okay a little less so when you do this beautiful action you move and this is when you are mostly called to speak other languages yeah that's right because if you do this action then you cannot have to be able to handle yourself and the situations in maybe English hey lolly you got it yes the trouble that was fast very well very well yes good travel yes lolly good job good job you there excellent and also making money that's a beautiful thing of course absolutely I wish you guys to make all the money you can absolutely the money is there to just just to be taken so I wish you to take it all but the word I was talking about is travel travel is a beautiful word that means to go from one place to another and the usual reason is to discover a new country just to make sure that everyone knows what is what is to travel let's find some images to travel here we go this is to travel right so it's the travel is to go from one place to another right to travel the travel is to decide where to go right and by the way where are you guys where do you guys want to go next what do you do you have any travel planned let me know down here in the chat box in the comments below wherever you want let me know if you have if you guys have any any and travel booked you can use to travel as an action to travel which means to go from a place to another or as a noun the travel and the travel is the thing you know like is the the actual going from a place to another okay all right so I think it's clear now so well done to you Lali excellent job I think you guys now are ready for the next word so the next word the next word is a noun is a noun and it's something present everywhere every where every single where like really you want to go everywhere no no when you want to go I said you want to go because I was reading the comments from Lali who said that she wants to go to Italy next month that's a great idea absolutely Italy is a beautiful place and it's worthy to be visited so well done on your travel and enjoy the country now yes Lali that that was the word air yeah as you can see I'm pretty speechless because you've been so fast I haven't even had the time to actually say it congratulations what about the rest of the guys here you know I see you but what about manual manual and Ariane hey Adam what's going on ideally ideally where are you Sophie hey guys come on do you want Lali to get all the points here don't you want to participate and get some points too yeah I really hope so hey so so yeah well done to Lali yeah the word was air and because maybe you're not accustomed to the word air is what you breathe air is what comes in my mouth air is what is what comes out of my mouth air this is air right and it's everywhere of course right congratulations you're too fast you're too fast really too fast let's go with the next one are you guys ready for the next word I'm going to make it a little more difficult now okay I'm going to make it a little more difficult but not too difficult because I'd see that you're not leaving room for anyone else so so the next word is an action it's an action that that everyone does I'd say constantly it's something you kind of have to do to become better to become better you must do this action there's no other way and sometimes you sometimes the thing the thing you do works some other times it doesn't work but it's fine as long as you do this action you're good it's a great action it's it's the action that brought me to do this live session here with you guys it's not focus and it's not learn although they're all valid points but now it's the action that brought me to start this YouTube adventure you know at first before you're sure 100% hey Manuel yes it's try yes Manuel it's try hey I'm getting out of words here congratulations Manuel yes it was try try was the word to try is when you do something and you're not sure 100% that you'll succeed but you do all your best do your best and then you may succeed you may not if you succeed what you did was good if you tried and you failed well that's called an experience you learn from it you get better that's also the way you wanna learn English try try many things try as many things as possible to learn this language guys try apps like congratulations to all of you guys who try to use pie that I presented in my last video congratulations to all of you who are trying the various advices I give you through these live sessions through the videos so this is all try and of course you're not gonna be successful in everything you try that's called Superman and it doesn't exist right not even Superman is actually perfect so of course you need to try yes try is to attempt something that's right perfectly said Lolly that's a perfect explanation that's right so I wish you all to try to be the best version of yourself of yourselves and this is something that is just good like very good to do to be to try to be the best version of yourself don't aim to actually be the best version of yourself which means to be the best because that'll be very very hard and you may feel bad because it's so hard to reach but try try at least try is enough now let's go on with the next one which is the word number five right so so far we got points to Irina Lolly and Manuel let me see who's next okay let me see who's next the next word is yet an action and in this day and age this word is king like a better this action is king because it really makes a difference like in the past especially if you were a man and you were strong that was king like if you had strength if you were strong if you were if you had like a big body like a body that wasn't easily breakable that was king but nowadays in this day and age in this day and age right nowadays which means today they that's not so important but this action replaced it with what's important right now because now we have everything guys right and because we have everything the person that does this action the people who do this action win and it's exactly that if you look at successful people the people you admire well they all do this action and it's so important and this action is king okay I said it too many times right but this is because I'm almost afraid of saying too much right because Lolly is on a run today like on a roll Lolly's on a roll which means like she's guessing every word almost and so I don't want to say too much but actually this action is something that people go to universities for it people go here on YouTube for it you guys are watching this lives streaming for it and it's not to think it's something that it's it's an action that is the consequence of another action right it's the consequence of reading for example yeah it's the consequence of reading it's not learning but you're close man you're close it's not it's not learning but let's say that you read or any other method of acquire something okay then you learn and then got this action this is the magic with this is the magic action the action that gives you the possibility to do whatever you want it's not to study to study is back to the first step I make a video on this topic like the three steps of winning in English let me take a note on this one the three steps of winning in English right and you guys are witnesses the birth of a new video it's not applying although well yeah whether that is part of it that that's like still in step number two right or it's still in step number three all right so yes but it's not the action I'm talking about it's more like what you say is like the practice and what I the action I'm talking about is the how do you say not the theory but it's not practicing what you what you have learned but it's the consequence of learning it's the pure consequence like if you learn then you have this action now it's not graduate is what comes next for example to develop no to develop is still number two to develop to learn this is still number two right so we got oh well the word you said manual that's a noun all right we're looking for an action but like I said before you're very close you're very very close you're very near to the word yes you're like going around it right yeah you're getting there to get good at a job sorry to get to get a good job well to get a good job you need this action oh yeah to get a good job you have to have this action it's it's like most it's the most important thing we can you can also take the good the word good away to get a job you need this action well of course you don't need to have this action for everything right but you need to do or have this action for the job you're applying so you it's something you acquire and that the beauty of it is that this action gives you the confidence to apply for the job or to let me see to graduate to to apply what you learn right because of this action and section is the consequence of learning so you learn and because you learn then you have this action when you have this action many doors open because you you can actually do what you learned but the reason be the reason why you can do what you learn is exactly yes it is not to know you got it you got it yes you see I told you guys you were all going around it right you were oh you were all circling it right yes to know to know arena well done yes to know because knowledge is king nowadays and to know something means a lot like this is really true on any level right you don't need to be the past you just need to know a little bit more than someone else in other words like if you say you want to apply for a position you don't need to be the best at it yet you can become the best but you only need to be sure of what you know that's the most important yes value you were very close you were definitely very close yes to know is a consequence of learning you learn something that you know it and when you know it then you can apply it and yeah that's it I said too much okay let's go to the last and final word are you guys ready come on let's do it all right so the last word for today is an action and it's a dangerous action it's a dangerous action if it's if it's controlled then it's still it's something you can do but if it's left like if it's too much then it's not worth it you need to do this action at least once in a while it's important to do this action for something right but you don't want it too much like you need to have some balance like too much and you just you just go over you go overboard too little and you don't leave enough so you want to have a nice balance and you want to do this action to do this action means to to try something knowing you can fail to do this action means to try something knowing the downsides knowing there's something knowing it's difficult knowing it's probably something hard to try something that you may lose something but you may also gain something this is when I talked about the balance right so if what you gain is more than what you lose just go go for it go with this action it's not to challenge but it's pretty close because the challenge is for is when you do it to another person like I challenge you I challenge you to actually guess this word right but this is something you do it this action is an action you do to yourself yeah you do it to yourself and when it's too much as I said it's dangerous but you gotta need some gamble a gamble gamble is very close to the word I'm talking about yeah gamble to gamble is basically when you you don't you you just go random and you hope for the best that's again to risk yesterday that to risk well done yes to risk was easy to risk was the word well done well done you guys well done you oh yes awesome yes to risk and to risk is let's say you guys don't know about this word I'm going to show it to you to risk here this lady here she is risking quite a lot okay she is definitely risking too much at least for my point of view okay from my point of view she's listening a little bit too much right but this is too much right and what about this guy isn't he risking well yes he is risking he is risking his life don't do that okay unless you know so just just just don't okay please do me this favor never risk this much just risk a little okay risk moderate stay stay here over the yellow zone all right here is a boring life here is a too exciting life just stay here okay do it for me please okay so with this is all for today I hope you guys had fun I hope you and if you had fun please write it down here in the comments write down fun fun fun fun I want to see it even if I stop the video just just make sure to type the word fun so that I know it because I can still see it even when I stop the video I can still see your comments guys and if you write no if you write the word fun I know that it is something you like and I'll continue do it right so I'll see you next week next Saturday with another beautiful vocabulary challenge possibly definitely and I'll see you another time to learn and improve our English you guys have a great awesome weekend take care bye bye cheers