2:00

Here's the point. So those Thai engineers

2:03

working Right in the

2:05

Thai half of the project

2:08

right the Thai company. They're working

2:10

with engineers in other countries So

2:12

of course, what language are they going

2:14

to communicate in and this is very important. They're

2:17

communicating about this

2:19

very large project

2:23

Right and of course English English is the standard

2:25

language for these kinds of international

2:28

projects in engineering in

2:31

science also medical

2:36

You said I've said before but I was surprised

2:38

that I actually analyzed

2:40

I looked at my in

2:42

a longtime members some of my best

2:45

members and the members who really

2:47

become members in for

2:50

example my VIP program and

2:52

get my power English course and they're just some

2:54

really my best members the ones that study the hardest

2:56

and they stay the longest

3:00

and I was kind of quite surprised that I have a lot

3:02

of engineers a lot of engineers

3:04

a Lot of doctors

3:06

and nurses and then the other

3:09

groups are managers Higher

3:11

level managers and then professors and teachers.

3:14

So this is a these are the groups and

3:16

a little surprising to me So I kind of thought

3:18

well, I wonder why is that because I don't specifically

3:21

teach You

3:23

know

3:24

engineering vocabulary Not

3:26

yet, at least I don't specifically teach medical

3:28

vocabulary, right? But

3:32

looking at this book, I understand

3:34

why because About 90%

3:40

of what you need as an engineer is

3:42

really general English skills

3:45

and that other 10%

3:47

are

3:48

the words right

3:51

is the technical vocabulary

3:54

for your field and Of

3:56

course even if engineering that's a very

3:58

general profession

4:01

is a very general word because in fact

4:03

right there are not many general engineers

4:05

that I know of there are civil engineers electrical

4:08

engineers industrial engineers aeronautical

4:11

engineers right they specialize and each

4:14

of those kinds of engineering

4:17

Will have their own specific

4:21

vocabulary In English

4:23

and of course in your own language, too So

4:26

this is also true of medical of course there

4:28

are MDs general You know

4:31

general doctors you know kind of family

4:33

doctors and nurses But

4:36

a whole lot of doctors and nurses Specialize

4:40

either in their studies or at least

4:42

in their jobs right so you might have a nurse

4:45

okay, but she's emergency room nurse

4:47

and she works in the ER and so That's

4:52

gonna require some You know

4:54

some specific vocab

4:56

connected to ER medicine

4:59

ER nursing which would be different than say

5:01

the maternity ward where You

5:04

know you were women are having babies Right

5:07

it's gonna be a different there's gonna be some a

5:09

lot of different common vocabulary, but that's

5:11

you know That's the technical vocab

5:13

that you have and this is true for

5:16

most jobs if when you're using English

5:18

in your job I

5:21

mean there even software engineers right

5:23

people who have that title Software

5:25

engineers and that's very very different than

5:27

a civil engineer who's building a road Right

5:30

so software engineers coders are gonna have

5:33

their own little technical vocab It's

5:35

impossible for me or any real

5:37

almost any English teacher to teach you all

5:40

of that very

5:43

specialized vocab So

5:46

how do you get it? Well

5:48

you get it you have to it's the same way

5:50

you get the other vocab general English

5:52

you have to listen and read a lot

5:57

But specifically in your feet If

6:00

you are an electrical engineer, then

6:03

you need to be reading papers,

6:07

articles, books,

6:11

blog posts, whatever, anything

6:16

about electrical engineering written

6:18

by electrical engineers in

6:21

English, right, in English.

6:24

Now many of you, many

6:27

of you already learned

6:29

much of this in your training, in

6:32

your technical training, you know. So for example,

6:35

doctors and nurses, a lot of medical

6:37

vocab comes from Latin. This

6:39

is great because Latin also is, you know,

6:42

all doctors learn it in every country in the

6:44

world, nurses too. So you

6:46

know, all the Latin based vocab

6:50

medical terminology words,

6:54

great. You're going to learn that in any country

6:56

in the world. You've got that, you can use it anywhere.

6:59

Okay, so that's perfect. And

7:01

there are many programs too where they're going to teach

7:03

you a lot of that technical

7:07

vocab. They can teach some of

7:09

it to you in English. But if you want to get better at it, this

7:11

is how you do it. The

7:14

other way you can do this is listening to

7:19

English, right,

7:22

again, in your technical field.

7:24

So you might find on YouTube or you might be able

7:26

to find on other websites where

7:28

you can listen to con, this is a good

7:30

one, conference presentations, seminars

7:34

and conferences, right, where

7:36

they will record a talk by some engineer,

7:39

right, and he's talking about

7:41

a project, maybe there's a talk,

7:44

an engineer, he's talking about a bridge they built, and

7:46

he's going to use, of course, the

7:50

vocab that is used by engineers.

7:54

Okay, so you can watch little short

7:56

ones where their

7:59

presentations, even. even very,

8:01

very basic little documentaries

8:03

and things, but it's better if it's a little bit

8:05

technical, right? So reading

8:07

and listening, reading and listening in your

8:09

very specific field. That's 10%.

8:13

I can't help you much with that. I'm sorry. I'm

8:16

not an engineer. I'm not a doctor. I'm

8:18

not a nurse. I

8:21

can't cover every

8:23

single one of these fields. It's

8:26

too much. It's too much for

8:28

anybody. The good news is you already

8:30

know your field. You already know it. If

8:32

you're an engineer, you already know engineering. A

8:36

lot of the vocab may already transfer. You

8:38

may already know a decent amount

8:41

of very specific engineering

8:43

words in your specific

8:47

field or medical or whatever

8:49

your field is. The

8:51

other 90%, and as I go through this

8:53

book from Cambridge, I

8:57

see that most of what is needed is

8:59

general English ability. So

9:02

I'll give you some of the things. Here's

9:06

some of the exercises they say. Following a meeting,

9:09

Claudia writes an email to

9:13

update an engineering colleague.

9:17

Read the email

9:19

and understand it, basically. This is the thing. And

9:22

what are they focusing on? They're

9:25

not really focusing on very specific technical

9:27

engineering terms. They're focusing on phrases,

9:31

common English phrases, words like evaluate,

9:34

workout, work out the magnitude

9:36

of the parameters. Workout means to solve.

9:39

It's just an idiom. It's a common idiom. We use

9:41

it in English and

9:44

all kinds of English. The

9:46

word severe, how severe

9:49

is the vibration in the engine?

9:53

Severe means how bad. How

9:55

bad is the problem? dynamics,

10:00

right? So there's some words in here that are very,

10:02

you know, kind of technical dynamic capabilities,

10:08

you know, engine thrust.

10:11

Okay, you're gonna have to learn some of that listening and

10:13

to and reading. Again,

10:17

technical, you can listen to podcasts,

10:19

I don't, I'm not an engineer, but I'm sure you can find some,

10:21

you know, every field has podcasts

10:24

in their own field. You know, I'm an English teacher,

10:26

I can find podcasts by people

10:28

who just talk about education, and

10:31

learning and theories and ideas about

10:34

teaching and how do you help students learn better,

10:37

right? In English,

10:39

I can find I can

10:42

find podcasts about

10:44

that, I can find videos about that. So you can

10:46

find that too, you can find that in medicine, you

10:48

can find that in business and leadership

10:51

and management, you can find it in all kinds of

10:53

engineering, and you're gonna have to do that.

10:55

Okay, you must do that to get that

10:58

kind of vocab, you need that. But

11:00

then the other thing you need is the really general

11:02

ability to have a high

11:04

level of effortless English

11:06

fluency, to just be able

11:08

to talk to people about any topic

11:11

and be fluent. And then when you need to,

11:13

you use the vocab for your job. But,

11:16

you know, the basic structures, the most

11:18

common words, most of what

11:21

you'll be using is general English. You're

11:23

just talking about the topic of business, or

11:26

the topic of engineering, or the topic of

11:28

science or medicine, or whatever. Okay.

11:31

And so now I understand this is why people are

11:33

getting my power English course, and

11:36

getting my VIP program, why all these technical

11:38

people are joining my courses, because my courses

11:40

are very good at helping you with

11:43

that, you know, powerful,

11:47

effortless fluency. So

11:49

you can really speak English, be understood,

11:52

and be confident. And this is a big part

11:54

of it, be confident when you speak English, because,

11:57

you know, in these fields, you need to be

11:59

confident. confident. You

12:01

need to appear confident a lot a lot

12:04

a lot of professionals. You know, if you're just going,

12:06

if you're just traveling

12:08

to America and going into restaurants and ordering

12:12

pizza, it doesn't matter if you're

12:14

confident or not, you can, you don't even

12:16

you hardly need any English for that. Okay,

12:18

you can always just use your your phone and say,

12:21

you know, say the word in your language

12:23

and then show them pizza. One, this

12:26

one point is a menu, right? I've done that in many

12:28

countries with where I know no, almost

12:30

no language, you know, so you don't

12:32

need much confidence or ability for

12:35

simple travel. It's actually you

12:37

don't need much. But when

12:40

you're using English and some

12:42

professional level, you're having

12:45

a business meeting with

12:48

people in your big company, but they're from

12:50

another country, and you have to discuss a project.

12:54

And you need to present your ideas. You

12:56

need general English, you need to be able to talk in English,

12:59

right? Fluently, the words need to come out, you

13:01

don't want to sound confused

13:04

and be nervous, you don't write

13:07

because they maybe

13:09

they don't realize you're nervous

13:11

about your English. They

13:13

might think you're nervous about your ideas,

13:16

your presentation, your project,

13:18

right? It's it, it can kill the

13:20

confidence in your ideas, saying

13:23

with medical, like a doctor, a nurse,

13:26

they need to communicate

13:29

in a very confident way, you don't need absolutely

13:31

perfect English. But you do

13:34

need your English to be understandable, to

13:36

most people, and it needs

13:39

to be clear, fluent and confident.

13:43

Okay, if the grammar is a little off, it doesn't matter.

13:45

What's much more important is that you're confident and doctors

13:48

and nurses know this your patients are already worried.

13:50

They're already can

13:52

be possibly nervous. Or if you're talking to other

13:54

doctors and nurses, right? If

13:57

you have if you're presenting an idea or

14:00

you did or some research, right?

14:03

You need to sound confident. Same

14:06

with engineers, right? These are kind of a little

14:08

bit high pressure situations where confidence

14:10

is so important. So this is why you've

14:12

got, I want you to focus 90% of your

14:14

time, people in these professional fields,

14:17

because 90% of your effort on

14:19

developing that effortless

14:22

speaking confidence fluency.

14:26

That's why I call what I do effortless English.

14:29

It's the feeling that you have

14:31

when you speak. Yes, you need some effort to

14:33

do it. Okay? It's not lazy English.

14:35

You do have to study. You do have to work. But the

14:38

result is that when you

14:40

speak English, it feels effortless, like

14:43

when you speak your own language. And

14:47

then you add the last 10% of your

14:49

specific technical

14:56

vocabulary. If you're

14:58

an engineer, if you're a doctor, if

15:00

you're an international lawyer, whatever

15:03

it is, okay, you can add that yourself.

15:06

You already you're a master of that already,

15:08

you just maybe have to learn some of the vocab,

15:10

but you already know the ideas. Okay,

15:12

because you're already a professional in that area.

15:15

So you can do that later,

15:17

or you can just do it at the same time. But

15:20

the big thing that's so

15:22

tough for most people, these

15:26

professionals is that real fluency,

15:28

that strong, confident speaking

15:32

and listening ability, that real English

15:34

ability, right? That's why people they need

15:36

to pass the OET exam, they

15:39

get my power English course in VIP program.

15:42

And if had so many people say it, you know, because

15:45

of that, I passed, I tried the

15:47

OET prep books, I

15:49

tried an OET preparation

15:51

course, and I failed. Why?

15:55

Because, because those courses are too

15:57

focused on the test and technical

15:59

know,

16:01

specifics, and

16:03

they don't, they're not going to help you if your

16:06

general English ability is not good

16:08

enough. Right?

16:10

That's the problem with focusing too

16:12

much on test preparation. Okay,

16:15

any test, like it might be the GRE,

16:17

that's the Graduate Records Exam, if you want

16:20

to go to grad school in the United

16:22

States, then you got to

16:24

take the GRE in most for most schools. So

16:26

I took the GRE, right? It's basically

16:28

math and reading.

16:30

But

16:32

you can buy books, you know,

16:34

GRE preparation books, you

16:37

can buy those books, they might help you

16:39

a little. They'll help

16:41

you a little. They'll get you'll get used

16:43

to get comfortable with the test, you understand how it

16:45

works, you get a general idea

16:47

of what to expect. But if

16:49

you're terrible at math, those

16:52

books will not help you get a high

16:54

score on the math section. Okay,

16:57

they're not going to do it. Just just studying those

16:59

books is not enough. You if you're bad at

17:01

geometry, for example, there's a lot of geometry

17:04

on those. Thankfully, because that's

17:06

my strongest math or was. So you're

17:11

gonna have to learn geometry. If you jump,

17:14

if your geometry stinks, if it's terrible, those

17:16

test books are not going to help you, you're gonna have to get a

17:18

geometry book, or a geometry program

17:21

or Khan Academy, whatever you're gonna have to go

17:23

through and improve the real

17:25

skill of geometry.

17:30

Then your test score will be quite good

17:33

on the math, geometry and algebra. Okay,

17:36

you're gonna have to do that. So

17:39

this is the problem people have, let's say low

17:41

English ability. They

17:46

have a low English general ability, they can't speak

17:48

fluently. They're listening abilities

17:51

not very good. And then they take some

17:53

test preparation course or they buy a test

17:56

preparation book, and they study

17:58

it for three months, five months. six months, they

18:01

take the test and they fail. And

18:03

they're confused. Why did I fail? Well, you failed

18:06

because you ignored the real problem. The

18:08

real problem is your fluency,

18:10

your, you know, true

18:13

English ability. Not

18:17

trying to figure out the test, okay? Trying

18:19

to figure out all the tricks of the test. It

18:22

might give you a little boost, a little increase

18:24

if you already are good. If your math

18:26

skills are already good, like you're

18:29

really solid in geometry and algebra,

18:32

then you study the GRE books, you might learn a couple

18:34

tricks for a couple, a

18:36

few different kinds of problems. And

18:39

that might jump your score up a little. Okay,

18:41

so focus, focus, focus, engineers,

18:44

focus on general English

18:46

first, be

18:48

really good with your general English fluency,

18:51

doctors, nurses and everyone

18:54

else. Okay. If you need

18:57

a test, a

19:00

little test prep, that should be like

19:02

a couple weeks. That's all you need.

19:05

Let's go into some quick, quick,

19:07

quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, um,

19:10

questions from our live

19:12

program here. Okay,

19:21

lots of people just saying hi. Yeah,

19:31

chamber says there's a Russian speak,

19:34

a Russian speaker. He says you can

19:36

make you learn 50,000 new

19:39

words in English, just change the ends

19:42

of words which end by Sia and

19:44

Russian to show on Tio

19:46

n. I don't know Russian.

19:49

So maybe there's a similar

19:51

you can do similar tricks in Spanish, you

19:53

know, like seo, edu,

19:56

right? It's education.

19:59

So it it looks very similar because the root is

20:02

right the same edu means educate

20:05

right and in Spanish

20:07

c-i-o-n at the end in

20:09

English is t-i-o-n so yeah this

20:12

is why for

20:14

English speakers Spanish is way

20:16

easier to learn than Chinese because

20:20

Spanish and English share roots in Latin you

20:23

know so there are a lot

20:26

of those very similar words and you know

20:28

Russians all these European languages they're

20:31

gonna find these common roots right

20:35

and then the farther away you get where the

20:37

language you're learning gets farther from your own

20:39

language then there's fewer and

20:42

fewer of those similar

20:44

words and then you got to learn every single

20:46

word you know by

20:49

memory and it's not similar to something

20:51

you already know so yeah

20:55

he's probably right now

20:58

see what else we got here oh

21:03

cool Ildar

21:05

says hi how's it going you're

21:07

just in time because I'm an engineer thanks a lot

21:09

trying to improve my English as

21:11

much as I'm trying to prove my English as much as I can

21:14

yes good luck to you Santosh

21:19

says hi from India hello

21:23

to you and to all of India Mohammed

21:28

mom mode says when I started watching your videos

21:30

I became more confident and energetic thanks

21:33

so much you are welcome

21:35

thank you so much Amina

21:39

hi Amina good to see you as always

21:43

what time do you feel most energetic

21:45

morning afternoon evening or at night

21:50

this has changed for me now

21:52

it's I would say more late later

21:54

in the morning is probably my best time late

21:56

morning and this is just my children

21:59

have trained me So

22:02

I used to be a night person. The

22:05

answer to that question used to be night. I was a

22:07

night person. I did my best work at night. I

22:09

would stay up late until like 2 a.m. or something

22:12

almost every night. Even

22:15

when I got bad sleep, for some reason, around 9

22:18

o'clock at night, I would suddenly get energetic again.

22:21

So that was my natural pattern. But

22:24

with twins, they

22:27

wake up at 4.30 or 5 a.m.

22:29

every single morning. And

22:33

after 4.5 years of waking

22:36

up, somewhere around that time,

22:39

before 6, certainly, I've kind

22:42

of shifted now. I train jujitsu

22:44

in the mornings now. So now I find

22:47

that at night, because I've been

22:49

with my kids all day, waking

22:51

up so early, at night, I'm like, ugh,

22:54

I have no energy. That's

22:57

my time to just lay around. I

23:00

might watch some little videos or read

23:03

something light. But

23:06

best energy now is mornings. Well,

23:16

this is an interesting question. Coca-Cola says, I have listened to English

23:19

daily for four hours and

23:21

I've been shadowing for two hours, but

23:23

I've not progressed in speaking yet. Well,

23:26

how many weeks or months have you

23:28

done that? So this is the question.

23:31

I've not progressed yet. I haven't improved yet in

23:33

my speaking. So my next

23:35

question is, have you been doing that one week, 30 weeks,

23:39

three years? That's

23:41

important, obviously. The

23:44

duration. So let me know. I'll

23:46

try to answer your question. Mr.

23:51

Bombadier says, I am an engineer. Good.

23:54

English is an amazing tool. I'm

23:56

applying the seven powerful rules

23:59

to learn. English. Yes,

24:02

amazing, great. Yeah,

24:05

it really makes sense now. I don't know why. I just,

24:08

I was surprised by it. You know, doctors, nurses,

24:10

engineers, managers,

24:12

but now I realize because what's

24:14

the common, what's the connection? Because

24:17

I was a little confused. I'm like, well, engineers,

24:21

doctors, nurses, managers,

24:26

business managers, you know, like in a company

24:28

and then like teachers and professors. I'm like, whoa, this

24:31

seems like very different groups of people. But

24:33

I realize what is the

24:35

common thing? They all potentially,

24:38

like a lot of them are involved

24:41

in international projects. That's

24:43

what it is, right? A lot of doctors and

24:46

nurses are, well, I

24:48

mean, you know, a lot of them go abroad or they work

24:50

in, they work internationally, but

24:53

then many others present

24:55

at conferences and seminars

24:57

internationally. What are

25:00

they doing? They need English for that, right? Or

25:02

they're just trying to learn research

25:04

and talk to other, you

25:07

know, technical people. Same thing, like

25:09

I mentioned with engineers, it makes sense. There's

25:11

so many international

25:13

projects now. You travel around the different countries,

25:16

especially countries where like it's booming,

25:19

right? Where there's just a huge amount of

25:21

building happening, all these engineering

25:24

projects. They're building bridges and railroads

25:26

and places like Vietnam and Thailand

25:28

and Malaysia and that's just in Asia,

25:31

right? This Indonesia,

25:34

I know throughout Latin America as well, this is happening.

25:37

So, you know, they're building so

25:39

much, they're growing so fast, India is another one.

25:42

That,

25:44

you know, and a lot of, they're building some

25:47

all these partnerships. That's the word I was looking

25:49

for before. Partnerships with,

25:52

it's like a local company and a foreign company. It's

25:55

super common, right? I've just noticed

25:57

this traveling around and my travels is

25:59

you do these partnership projects are

26:01

so so common in all of these

26:04

countries so you know

26:06

you see a Japanese company and an Indian

26:08

company doing something together

26:11

right lots of Chinese companies doing this like

26:13

a Chinese company in the Vietnamese company building

26:16

something or making something together it's

26:18

super super common now

26:20

in some cases you know maybe there

26:22

might be another shared language that can might

26:25

be possible right like if I

26:27

don't

26:29

a Mexican company and Argentinian

26:32

company okay they can both use Spanish that's

26:35

fine right there might be certain

26:37

countries where they could share you know

26:39

they could use Chinese or maybe some partnerships

26:42

they could use Russian or something like that but

26:44

a lot a lot probably most they're

26:46

going to use English as

26:48

the common language

26:52

to communicate right the Japanese engineers talking

26:54

to the Indonesian engineers

26:58

what language are they is are they gonna speak Indonesian are

27:00

they gonna speak Japanese probably

27:03

they're gonna speak English right

27:07

because if one company does a lot of these

27:09

projects or

27:11

then it's too hard for that

27:14

for all the

27:16

all these languages right like that

27:18

maybe there's an in the say there's a Indonesian engineering

27:21

company and they're doing projects

27:23

with the Japanese company and then they do another project with

27:25

the Chinese company and another one with an American company

27:28

to try to learn like to have all

27:31

their engineers learn Japanese and

27:33

learn Chinese and learn English and learn German

27:36

is too much right this is

27:38

why we have this this is why

27:40

English at the moment is the global

27:43

language it's just convenient let's

27:45

pick one let's pick one everybody

27:48

learned the one and then it's simple

27:50

we don't have to all learn ten languages right this

27:52

is the idea so English

27:55

is for now

27:58

all right

28:09

Oh Christian Vargas says hi

28:11

from Colombia. This is my first time

28:13

here. I learned a lot with you thanks to your

28:16

podcasts. Welcome. Thank

28:18

you. Tohani

28:21

says I am from Egypt, another

28:24

country that's growing. When I listen

28:26

for you to understand by listening to native speakers on YouTube,

28:30

I sometimes struggle with some. So

28:32

yeah, in Egypt, these BRICS countries are all

28:34

going to be growing like crazy. They already are. But

28:38

again, they're typically

28:42

Arabic speakers.

28:45

Arabic speakers and engineering

28:47

or other fields, they

28:50

need to talk to Russian companies, they need to talk

28:52

to Chinese companies, Indians. Pick a language,

28:54

it's usually going to be English. So

28:56

anyway, this problem of understanding

28:59

all native speakers. So you know, every native

29:04

speaker is not exactly the same.

29:08

Native speaker meaning someone who learned

29:11

as a baby. They're different

29:13

accents and also different speeds.

29:16

There's also a different, we

29:20

call register I suppose, but you know,

29:22

different level of formality, meaning

29:25

some are going to speak very casually

29:28

using lots of idioms and slang and

29:31

others avoid

29:33

that don't use it much. So

29:35

I don't use much slang or idioms

29:38

a little not much. I speak fairly

29:40

slowly, naturally. And

29:43

I have a very standard American accent. Easy

29:46

to understand for most people. So

29:48

I'm pretty under easy to understand as a

29:50

native speaker. But you know, you

29:52

find another native speaker who speaks

29:54

faster, who uses a lot of slang and

29:56

idioms, right,

29:59

it might even have a non

30:01

standard accent, a less common accent, you

30:04

add those things together and now this person

30:06

might be very hard to understand.

30:09

So you got to get used to them. You just got to practice

30:12

with other speakers. You can do a great thing

30:14

about YouTube and other podcasts

30:16

and things you can listen to Scottish people,

30:19

you can listen to South Africans, you can listen

30:21

to Australians and news people from New Zealand

30:23

and people from different parts of America and

30:25

you can listen to professional people

30:28

who are using a fairly formal

30:30

kind of English and you can listen to teenagers

30:32

who are using super casual

30:35

English and you'll gradually

30:38

get used to them. So

30:40

it's hard to do all of that. So I recommend

30:43

in the beginning the most useful

30:45

is a standard accent

30:49

and not too casual, not super

30:51

formal but like kind of basically

30:53

what I use. This is the

30:56

most common kind of English you're going to

30:58

hear especially

31:00

in work situations and

31:03

travel to mostly. Hey

31:08

Vladislav, great to see you. Nice

31:10

to see you. He says, when I

31:12

started studying my new profession of astronomy,

31:16

very interesting field, I

31:18

already understood English articles in this field

31:21

quite well because of my good general

31:24

English. Exactly,

31:26

great. So he starts

31:28

a new field, astronomy. So

31:31

astronomy, very

31:33

technical, right? So

31:36

astronomy has lots of its own

31:39

vocabulary but

31:42

that's no big deal for a lot of stuff because he already

31:44

has great English. So for

31:46

him, he starts reading about astronomy. It

31:48

would be like me starting to study astronomy.

31:51

It would be like me getting an astronomy book and starting

31:53

to read about it. There might be, like

31:56

I might see, you know, neutron star. What's

31:58

that? I don't know. But

32:00

I already know English so I can just read the

32:02

explanation right and I can oh

32:04

that's what a neutron star is okay Got it right

32:07

red giant. Mmm, and I get I figured that out right

32:09

so I could pick up a lot of that vocabulary

32:13

fairly easily Because the explanations

32:15

are all in normal English. I just

32:18

need to learn the specific Astronomy

32:21

words, but everything else I already would

32:23

understand and this is what Vladislav said he

32:25

already understands all that He already has a

32:27

high level of English. He's very You

32:29

know very high level. So just

32:32

learning astronomy It's

32:34

not a language problem for him. He can just focus

32:36

on the astronomy part, you know, the mathematics and

32:38

the physics and Those

32:41

things, you know, I can't help you with that sorry,

32:44

but If

32:46

you've got a high level of general English

32:50

Conversational and even reading too then

32:53

these specific fields are not a problem

32:55

for you And if you it's even easier if you

32:58

already know it if he was already an astronomer

33:01

Had a PhD in astronomy already Then

33:06

you know and his English is high, you know, nothing

33:09

he's got what he needs You

33:12

might need to just learn the translation of a few

33:14

words It

33:16

wouldn't be that big a deal You Okay,

33:22

a couple more and then I'm gonna go I'm trying to keep these a little shorter

33:25

so I can do them more Sarah

33:29

says the more you listen and read the more you become

33:31

confident. This is why I liked our challenges.

33:34

Good point, Sarah

33:40

Yeah, like us for says more

33:42

half asked for says English is the

33:44

language of modern science in modern

33:46

science academia in general

33:49

right most Scholarly

33:53

university kind of topics engineering

33:55

professional

33:59

topics or

34:01

fields, areas of work,

34:04

right? But

34:07

you know, that's the good news about it. I know for you,

34:10

it means you've got to learn English, you know,

34:13

but at least the good news is it's only one

34:15

language, okay? It's

34:17

great. Some people do love learning lots of languages

34:20

and wonderful. Go ahead, do it. But

34:23

the truth is, for most professional

34:25

reasons and travel too, with

34:28

just English, you're going to do pretty much anything

34:31

you need, okay?

34:32

Right.

34:34

It's nice if you also learn German and Russian

34:36

and Chinese and, you know, Hindi

34:38

and all the Arabic. Of

34:41

course, Spanish, Portuguese, these

34:44

are all great Japanese, but

34:47

that's a lot of time and a huge amount of work to

34:49

learn all of those languages at a high level,

34:53

a level, a professional level where you can use

34:55

them in your job. You know, yes,

34:57

you can find on YouTube, you can find these people

34:59

who speak 10 languages and

35:01

they say that they speak them all super high

35:03

levels professionally or 20

35:06

or something. I don't know, I can't judge

35:08

it, right? But for

35:11

most normal people who are working and have families

35:14

just learning one language, one foreign

35:16

language, English, at a high level, professionally,

35:19

it's already a big challenge and

35:21

takes a lot of time. So

35:25

especially for professional reasons, I

35:27

recommend focus on English. That's

35:29

the, you're going to get the most benefit for the time.

35:33

And then if you have more time after that, you know, you

35:36

can pick another one that might be helpful for you. But

35:39

English, you should have no problems if you just

35:41

learn English well. Like

35:44

Abdallah Tif says, hi from Algeria,

35:47

I am a petroleum engineer. Another

35:49

example, right? And you can see, you know,

35:51

engineers, there's so many specialized

35:55

kinds of engineering. So like

35:57

a book like this Cambridge book, you

35:59

know.

37:59

That's one reason I love Asia

38:02

because Asia is one of these regions, Asia and

38:04

then certainly

38:07

South America, Latin America I should say, all of

38:09

Latin America is similar.

38:12

And now all the BRICS nations

38:15

and then Africa is starting to really

38:17

take off now. So yeah, exciting for lots

38:19

of places.

38:22

Peter Cruz says, what about Mexico? Do you

38:24

have any plan to come here? I've been to Mexico.

38:27

My wife and I took a very nice trip just

38:29

for fun. It was in business, it was just fun. We

38:32

traveled around Mexico for a while, Mexico,

38:35

and it was great. So no plans

38:38

at the moment because now I'm way over in Japan. So

38:40

at that time we were in America, it was easy to go

38:42

down to Mexico and Latin

38:44

America in general. But

38:48

now I'm over in Japan, it's

38:50

a long flight just to get to the United States, then

38:52

another flight to go down South. So

38:57

with my kids at the moment, young kids, no

38:59

plans for the next few years. I

39:02

think the next few years we'll just be staying in Asia.

39:05

I want to start doing a little traveling with the kids. We

39:08

did our first short trip last month

39:10

to Guam, very close. But

39:13

we're thinking maybe just Southeast Asia, you know, Thailand,

39:16

Malaysia, Singapore,

39:18

that kind of area. Cool,

39:27

Sarah says, I took an English placement test.

39:31

I got an intermediate level without studying.

39:34

I just listened to your mini stories. So

39:36

that's just the mini stories. That's

39:39

great, Sarah. Fantastic. Sajat

39:44

Khan says, Hi, I am a digital marketer.

39:47

I like your podcasts. Ah, nice. Welcome.

39:56

I'm a beginner. Help me to learn if

39:58

I visited an English speaking country.

40:01

I would say not really know

40:06

unless you're really an extrovert.

40:10

What I mean by that is if you just love to get out

40:12

and talk to people and you don't

40:14

care if your English is really low and

40:17

you're just gonna talk try to talk to everybody

40:19

you meet. Yes, it could help

40:21

you quite a lot. You could do that Benny Lewis

40:23

thing, you know, just just speaking

40:26

English all the time. Don't speak your own language at all

40:28

and right that's fine. If

40:31

you're more of a normal person

40:33

where that

40:35

would make you nervous or stressed then

40:37

I would say no. I would

40:40

say try to get to an intermediate

40:42

level first then

40:44

go to an English-speaking country. So

40:48

like I found this just speaking Spanish

40:50

you know like that when I went

40:52

to Spanish-speaking countries, Mexico

40:55

for example, as a beginner

40:57

it was terrible. I didn't

40:59

hardly use it. It just felt stressful and

41:02

a little you know a few words but like no

41:04

it really didn't wasn't very enjoyable.

41:07

And then I did you know for

41:09

the Camino de Santiago in Spain I

41:11

learned learn learn. I listened

41:13

like crazy and was reading a lot in Spanish

41:16

only for about four months but luckily

41:18

Spanish is pretty close to English. So

41:21

I got up to like an intermediate level just low

41:23

intermediate but that was a huge difference

41:25

because then that's that trip I enjoyed

41:27

myself much more and

41:31

use Spanish much more and

41:33

it was much more enjoyable language

41:37

and also just the trip. So I think

41:41

I think it's much more fun. I think by just

41:44

to get when you're a beginner just you

41:46

can do things alone at your home. You don't need

41:49

to travel anywhere. When

41:51

you start getting up into intermediate levels it

41:53

might be enjoyable then because then you can have

41:56

a you can chat with people a little bit even it's

41:58

just small talk it starts to become a little bit more fun.

41:59

a lot more fun.

42:06

Chris says now understand why everyone says good

42:09

morning it's 11 o'clock at night here.

42:11

Yeah that's afternoon here in Japan

42:13

at the moment. An

42:17

MD also doctor right here. Shari Kassan

42:19

says that Hasein says many stories are

42:21

amazing and fun for listening as well as improving.

42:24

Exactly. Alright

42:27

guys I'm gonna go now. Lots

42:31

of love to all of you but I'll be back again soon

42:33

with another show. I've got jujitsu tomorrow so probably

42:35

not tomorrow but Sunday

42:37

I'll do another show. Okay

42:41

so engineers and all other professionals

42:43

right. You can watch this again but

42:45

don't stress too much about the technical

42:47

words you can learn those yourself but

42:50

you gotta get to that effortless English

42:53

speaking fluency and with that

42:55

focus mostly on that general English and

42:58

then the technical stuff won't

43:00

be too tough. Alright

43:03

lots of love to you all. See you next time. Bye

43:05

for now. you