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So you want to learn everyday English.

The natural, authentic language that people are using every day to communicate.

The only problem is that there's too much English.

It's too much to learn.

Where do you begin?

And I totally understand this problem.

In fact, that's the reason that I love language.

Because it's so big and so complicated and there's always so much to learn but also because language is so deeply human.

Now I've spent the past 10 years in the classroom motivating students to do this one very simple thing

which is the trick to learning everyday English

and that's what I'm going to be teaching you today

so let's get started so in general we understand language really well especially English

which is one of the most widely studied languages in the whole history of the world

but although we understand English very well it is still mysterious

and it still conforms to some mysterious laws of the universe and one of those laws is Zipf's law.

Zipf's law tells us about word frequency in English.

It tells us

that the most common word in English is twice as common as the second most common word in English

and three times as common as the third most common word in English etc etc etc.

which means that

if you put English word frequency on a graph you get

this beautiful straight red line now the mysterious thing is

that this is not just true for English

but for all languages in the world even extinct languages

or invented languages like Esperanto and even for languages

that have never been translated so this means

that the most frequent 100 words in English make up about 50 % of everyday English

and the most frequent 800 words in English make up about 75 % of everyday English.

This is fantastic news.

So now we have a shortcut to learning English vocabulary.

Except it's not that simple.

You see, when we actually start to take a close look at word frequency in English,

when we look at taboo words or we look at words

that are related to a specific culture we start to see that

Zip's law isn't really a law it's more of a guide you see

Zip's law exists not because of some mysterious thing in the universe it exists

because of meaning and people and that is something

that we're going to talk about at the end of this video

but first we need to talk about fluency

so let's try to create a definition of fluency

so it's not about having a huge vocabulary

because there are plenty of native speakers who are fluent who don't have a big vocabulary at all

and it's not about fast speech or continuous speech

because again there are plenty of native speakers who take long pauses

or speak really slowly and it's not about having perfect grammar

because there are plenty of native speakers who bend or break the rules of grammar.

In fact, I think that the whole concept of grammatical versus ungrammatical...

doesn't even make any sense.

What we should be talking about is acceptable versus unacceptable language and this varies over time and space.

People in New York talk differently to people in London

and people in London in the 1920s talk differently to people in London now.

So how can we define fluency?

Well for most people

when they talk about fluency they are talking about being able to combine the right type of grammar

and the right type of vocabulary spontaneously.

So maybe that's the trick to learning everyday English.

It's about memorizing that high -frequency vocabulary and memorizing those grammatical structures and then fluency.

Well, unfortunately it's not that simple.

Let's take a look at one of the most basic sentences subject verb object I eat pizza

and now if we want to be fluent we can just take our vocabulary

and plug that vocabulary into that structure the problem is that

that also gives us the sentence I shout cats

but unfortunately it gets worse because we can have a sentence with the correct grammar and correct vocabulary but it's not acceptable.

For example you can say I got dressed.

You could also say I put on my body my clothes of mine.

Perfect grammar perfect vocabulary not acceptable

but then you can have something in between the two like I put on my garments

now this is not as unacceptable as my second example

but also it's not as acceptable as my first example and And this is where the problem of learning everyday English begins.

Because language is infinite.

There are infinite possibilities.

So being fluent and using everyday English is not about using all of the possibilities

because a majority of those will be unacceptable.

It's actually about limiting the possibilities.

Learning everyday English is actually about a process of elimination.

And that's why obsessing about studying grammatical structures or memorizing word lists won't help you.

Because it doesn't give you those everyday combinations.

In fact, this is a really big problem in general with people learning languages.

People treating language like it's mathematics.

Like if they can memorize the formula, then they can use this formula to create natural English.

But that's not how it works at all.

You see, most of the language that we use every day is actually memorised, prefabricated constructions.

So, we know that in English there is more than one way of saying the same thing.

Hello!

Good day to you, sir!

Top of the morning to you!

But some of these combinations or these prefabrications will be more favoured than others.

More natural.

More fluent.

And in 2000, Britt Ehrman and Beatrice Warren proved that more than 50 % of the language

that we use every day is made up of these prefabricated, memorized constructions.

Everyday English is about conventions, cultural conventions.

Everyday English is about people.

It's about the language that we have all decided together is acceptable.

And so that finally brings us to that one trick to learning everyday English.

And it's not a trick that you're going to find in a workbook

or an app or a course or a system

because the trick is to use your English for authentic communication with real people because language is about people.

It's impossible to learn a language without other people.

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Using your English does not mean more hours studying.

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It means listening, reading, conversation.

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And those are things that nobody can give you and you can't buy.

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Practice is what gives you fluency

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so be smart about where you invest your time

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and your money and always remember that language is about people

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and you can't buy everyday English

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and you can't buy fluency I'm Christian this is Kangaroo English I'll see you in class

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Vocaboli chiave di questo video

15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:

Parola	Pronuncia	Significato
everyday aggettivo	/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/	quotidiano, giornaliero
vocabulary sostantivo	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	vocabolario
trick sostantivo	/ˈtɹɪk/	inbroglio
acceptable aggettivo	/əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/	accettabile
grammar sostantivo	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	grammatica
frequency sostantivo	/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/	frequenza
mysterious aggettivo	/mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/	misterioso, ignoto
fluent aggettivo	/ˈfluənt/	fluido
unacceptable aggettivo	/ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/	inaccettabile, inammissibile
formula sostantivo	/ˈfɔː.mjʊ.lə/	formula
versus	/ˈvɝsəs/	contro
frequent aggettivo	/ˈfɹiː.kwənt/	frequente, assiduo
differently avverbio	/ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/	differentemente, diversamente
infinite aggettivo	/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/	infinito
authentic aggettivo	/ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/	autentico

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

Struttura	Nel video
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa	been translated · is actually memorised · is made
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso	I've spent · have never been translated

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

Chi parla usa 14 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come can't, doesn't, I'm. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.

I suoni “th”: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, cloth /klɒθ/
I suoni “sh” e “zh”: combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, shout /ʃaʊt/, elimination /ɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/, shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/
Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, acceptable /əkˈsɛp.tə.bəl/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, differently /ˈdɪf.ə.ɹənt.li/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: trick /ˈtɹɪk/, mysterious /mɪˈstɪɹi.əs/, fluent /ˈfluənt/, versus /ˈvɝsəs/, frequent /ˈfɹiː.kwənt/
/æ/ — più aperta della “e”: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, grammar /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/, unacceptable /ˌʌn.ækˈsɛp.tə.bl̩/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, graph /ɡɹæf/

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