Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, AJ Hogue, where AJ's more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.
Here's AJ with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.
English for engineers.
That's our topic. English for engineers.
What kind of English training, studying, practicing, learning do engineers need?
I'll be discussing a little bit of this book.
It's Cambridge English for engineering.
Professional English.
And it comes with a little CD.
Seems decent. Seems pretty decent.
They've got, you know, Cambridge English for nursing.
I'm sure they've got ones for other, you know, specific areas as well.
But this is an important question because there's certain jobs, certain professions that need English for international work.
Engineering is a very common one because in engineering there are a lot, a lot, a lot of international projects.
You know, for example, I just remember traveling in Thailand, for example, and just walking around Bangkok and they're building everywhere in Bangkok.
And so many of the projects, right, the skyscrapers, the big buildings, bridges, whatever they're making, would be like a, it's called a joint venture.
But it's, it's basically, there will be a Thai company and then a foreign company working together to make the building or make the bridge or the railroad, whatever.
So often it was a Japanese company, perhaps a Chinese company, right?
Maybe an American company or a German company or whatever, right?
So here's the point.
So those Thai engineers working, right, in the Thai half of the project, right, the Thai company, they're working with engineers in other countries.
So, of course, what language are they going to communicate in?
And this is very important.
They're communicating about this very large project, right?
And of course, English.
English is the standard language for these kinds of international projects in engineering, in science, also medical.
I said, I've said before, but I was surprised that I actually analyzed, I looked at my kind of longtime members, some of my best members and the members who really become members in, for example, my VIP program and get my Power English course and they're just kind of some, really my best members, the ones
that study the hardest and they stay the longest.
And I was kind of quite surprised that I have a lot of engineers, a lot of engineers, a lot of doctors and nurses, and then the other groups are managers, kind of higher level managers, and then professors and teachers.
So this is the, these are the groups and a little surprising to me.
So I kind of thought, well, I wonder why is that?
Because I don't specifically teach, you know, engineering vocabulary.
Not yet, at least. I don't specifically teach medical vocabulary, right?
But looking at this book, I understand why.
Because about 90 percent of what you need as an engineer is really general English skills.
And that other 10 percent are the words, right?
It's the technical vocabulary for your field.
And of course, even engineering, that's a very general profession.
It's a very general word because, in fact, right, there are not many general engineers that I know of.
There are civil engineers, electrical engineers, industrial engineers, aeronautical engineers, right?
They specialize. And each of those kinds of engineering will have their own specific vocabulary in English.
And of course, in your own language, too.
So this is also true of medical.
Of course, there are MDs, general, you know, general doctors, you know, kind of family doctors and nurses.
But a whole lot of doctors and nurses specialize either in their studies or at least in their jobs, right?
So you might have a nurse, okay, but she's an emergency room nurse, and she works in the ER.
And so that's going to require some, you know, some specific vocab connected to ER medicine, ER nursing, which would be different than, say, the maternity ward where, you know, where women are having babies, right?
It's going to be a different, there's going to be some, a lot of different common vocabulary.
But that's, you know, that's the technical vocab that you have.
And this is true for most jobs if when you're using English in your job.
There are even software engineers, right?
People who have that title, software engineers, and that's very, very different than a civil engineer who's building a road.
Right? So software engineers, coders are going to have their own little technical vocab.
It's impossible for me or any real, almost any English teacher to teach you all of that.
Very specialized vocab.
So how do you get it?
Well, you get it, you have to, it's the same way you get the other vocab, general English, you have to listen and read a lot.
But specifically in your field, if you are an electrical engineer, then you need to be reading papers, articles, books, blog posts, whatever, anything about electrical engineering written by electrical engineers in English, right?
In English. Now many of you, many of you already learned much of this in your training, in your technical training, you know.
So for example, doctors and nurses, a lot of medical vocab is comes from Latin.
This is great, because Latin also is, you know, all doctors learn it in every country in the world and nurses too.
So, you know, the all the Latin based vocab, medical terminology, words, great, you're going to learn that in any country in the world, you've got that, you can use it anywhere.
Okay, so that's perfect.
And there are many programs too where they're going to teach you a lot of that technical vocab, they can teach some of it to you in English.
But if you want to get better at it, this is how you do it.
The other way you can do this is listening to English, right?
Again, in your technical field.
So you might find on YouTube, or you might be able to find on other websites, where you can listen to con, this is a good one, conference presentations, seminars and conferences, right?
Where they will record a talk by some engineer, right?
And he's talking about a project, maybe there's a talk, an engineer, he's talking about a bridge they built.
And he's going to use, of course, the vocab that is used by engineers.
Okay, so you can watch little short ones, where their presentations even, you know, very, very basic little documentaries and things, but but it's better if it's a little bit technical, right?
So reading and listening, reading and listening in your very specific field, that's 10%.
Okay, I can't help you much with that.
I'm sorry. I'm not an engineer.
I'm not a doctor. I'm not a nurse.
Okay, I just I can't cover every single one of these fields.
It's too much. Okay, it's too much for anybody.
So you've got but the good news is you already know your field.
Okay, you already know if you're an engineer, you already know engineering.
A lot of the vocab may already transfer, you may already know a decent amount of, you know, very specific engineering words in, you know, in your specific field, or medical or whatever your field is.
Okay, the other 90%.
And as I go through this book from Cambridge, I see this most of what is needed is general English ability.
So I'll give you some of the things this is, you know, like, here's some of the exercises they say, following a meeting, Claudia writes an email to up to update an engineering colleague, read the email.
And you know, and understand it, basically, this is the thing.
And what is what are they focusing on?
They're not really focusing on very specific technical engineering terms.
They're taught, they're focusing on phrases, the common English phrases, words like evaluate, workout, workout the magnitude of the parameters workout means to solve.
It's just an idiom.
It's a common idiom.
We use it in English.
And all kinds of English, right?
The word severe, how severe is the vibration in the engine.
severe means how bad, right?
How bad is the problem?
Find out about in order to find out about the dynamics, right?
So there's some words in here that are very, you know, kind of technical dynamic capabilities.
You know, engine thrust, okay, you're gonna have to learn some of that listening and to and reading.
Again, technical, you can listen to podcasts, I don't I'm not an engineer, but I'm sure you can find some, you know, every field has podcasts in their own field.
You know, I'm an English teacher, I can find podcasts by people who just talk about education, and learning and theories and ideas about teaching and how do you help students learn better, right?
In English, or I can find I can find podcasts about that, I can find videos about that.
So you can find that too, you can find that in medicine, you can find that in business and leadership and management, you can find it in all kinds of engineering, and you're gonna have to do that, okay, you must do that to get that kind of vocab, you need that.
But then the other thing you need is the really general ability to have a high level of effortless English fluency, to just be able to talk to people about any topic and be fluent.
And then when you need to, you use the vocab for your job.
But you know, the basic structures, the most common words, most of what you'll be using is general English.
You're just talking about the topic of business, or the topic of engineering, or the topic of science or medicine or whatever.
Okay. And so now I understand this is why people are getting my Power English course, and getting my VIP program, why all these technical people are joining my courses, because my courses are very good at helping you with that, you know, powerful, effortless fluency.
So you can really speak English, be understood, and be confident.
And this is a big part of it, be confident when you speak English, because, you know, in these fields, you need to be confident.
You need to appear confident.
A lot, a lot, a lot of professionals, you know, if you're just going, if you're just traveling to America and going into restaurants and ordering pizza, it doesn't matter if you're confident or not, you can, you don't even, you hardly need any English for that.
Okay, you could always just use your your phone and say, you know, say the word in your language and then show them pizza.
One, this one point at the menu, right?
I've done that in many countries with that, where I know no, almost no language, you know, so you don't need much confidence or ability for simple travel.
It's actually you don't need much.
But when you're using English and some professional level, you're having a business meeting with people in your big company, but they're from another country, and you have to discuss a project.
And you need to present your ideas.
You need general English, you need to be able to talk in English, right, fluently, the words need to come out, you don't want to sound confused, and be nervous, you don't, right, because they maybe they don't realize you're nervous about your English.
They might think you're nervous about your ideas, your presentation, your project, right?
It's it, it can kill the confidence in your ideas.
Same with medical, a doctor, a nurse, they need to communicate in a very confident way.
You don't need absolutely perfect English, but you do need your English to be understandable to most people.
And it needs to be clear, fluent, and confident.
Okay, if the grammar is a little off, it doesn't matter.
What's much more important is that you're confident and doctors and nurses know this your patients are already worried.
They're already couldn't be possibly nervous.
Or if you're talking to other doctors and nurses, right?
If you have if you're presenting an idea or something you did or some research, right, you need you need to sound confident.
Same with engineers, right?
These are kind of a little bit high pressure situations where confidence is so important.
So this is why you've got I want you to focus 90 % of your time, people in these professional fields, focus 90 % of your effort on developing that effortless speaking confidence fluency.
That's why I call what I do effortless English.
It's it's the feeling that you have when you speak.
Yes, you need some effort to do it.
Okay, it's not lazy English, you do have to study, you do have to work.
But the result is that when you speak English, it feels effortless.
Like when you speak your own language.
And then you add the last 10 % of your specific technical vocabulary.
If you're an engineer, if you're a doctor, if you're an international lawyer, whatever it is, okay, you can add that yourself.
You already you're a master of that already, you just have maybe have to learn some of the vocab, but you already know the ideas.
Okay, because you're already a professional in that area.
So you can do that later, or you can just do it at the same time.
But the big thing that's so tough for most people, these professionals is that real fluency, that strong confident speaking and listening ability, that real English ability, right?
That's why people they need to pass the OET exam, they get my power English course in VIP program.
And if had so many people say it, you know, because of that, I passed, I tried the OET prep books, I tried an OET preparation course, and I failed.
Why? Because, because those courses are too focused on the test, and technical, you know, specifics, and they don't, they're not going to help you if your general English ability is not good enough.
Right, that's the problem with focusing too much on tests preparation, okay, any test, okay, might be the GRE, that's the Graduate Records exam, if you want to go to grad school in the United States, then you got to take the GRE in most for most schools.
So I took the GRE, right?
It's basically is math and reading.
But you can buy books, you know, GRE preparation books, you can buy those books, they might help you a little, they'll help you a little, they'll get you'll get used to get comfortable with the test, you understand how it works, you get a general idea of what to expect.
But if you're terrible at math, those books will not help you get a high score on the math section.
Okay, they're not going to do it.
Just just studying those books is not enough.
You if you're bad at geometry, for example, there's a lot of geometry on those, thankfully, because that's my strongest math, or it was.
So you're gonna have to learn geometry.
If your job if your geometry stinks, if it's terrible, those test books are not going to help you, you're gonna have to get a geometry book, or a geometry program, or Khan Academy, whatever, you're gonna have to go through and improve the real skill of geometry.
Then your test score will be quite good on the math, geometry and algebra.
Okay, you're gonna have to do that.
So this is the problem people have, let's say low English ability.
They have a low English general ability, they can't speak fluently.
Their listening ability is not very good.
And then they take some test preparation course, or they buy a test preparation book, and they study it for three months, five months, six months, they take the test, and they fail.
And they're confused.
Why did I fail? Well, you failed because you ignored the real problem.
The real problem is your fluency, your, you know, true English ability.
Not trying to figure out the test, okay, trying to figure out all the tricks of the test, it might give you a little boost, a little increase if you already are good.
If your math skills are already good, like you're really solid in geometry and algebra, then you study the GRE books, you might learn a couple tricks for a few different kinds of problems.
And that might jump your score up a little.
Okay, so focus, focus, focus, engineers, focus on general English first, be really good with your general English fluency, doctors, nurses and everyone else.
Okay, then ability, and then finally, if you need a test, a little test prep, that should be like a couple weeks.
That's all you need.
Let's go into some quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, um, questions from our live program here.
Okay, lots of people just saying hi.
Shabir says there's a Russian speak, a Russian speaker, he says you can make you learn 50 ,000 new words in English, just change the ends of words which end by SIA and Russian to Sion, T -I -O -N.
I don't know Russian, so maybe there's a similar, you can do similar tricks in Spanish, you know, like Sion, the Ka -Sion, right, is education.
So it looks very similar because the root is, right, the same ed -ju means educate, right.
And in Spanish, C -I -O -N at the end, in English it's T -I -O -N.
So yeah, this is why for English speakers, Spanish is way easier to learn than Chinese because Spanish and English share roots in Latin, you know, so there are a lot of those very similar words and, you know, Russians, all these European languages, they're, you're gonna find these common roots, right,
and then the farther away you get where the, the language you're learning gets farther from your own language, then there's, they're fewer and fewer of those similar words and then you got to learn every single word, you know, by memory and it's not similar to something you already know.
So yeah, he's probably right.
Now let's see what else we got here.
Oh cool. Ildar says, hi, how's it going?
You're just in time because I'm an engineer.
Thanks a lot for trying to improve my English as much as I'm trying to improve my English as much as I can.
Yes, good luck to you.
Santosh says, hi from India.
Hello to you and to all of India.
Mohammed, Mahmoud says, when I started watching your videos, I became more confident and energetic.
Thanks so much. You are welcome.
Thank you so much. Amina, hi Amina.
Good to see you as always.
What time do you feel most energetic?
Morning, afternoon, evening, or at night?
This has changed for me.
Now it's, I would say more late, later in the morning is probably my best time.
Late morning and this is just my children have trained me.
So I used to be a night person.
The answer used to be, the answer to that question used to be night.
I used to, I was a night person.
I did my best work at night.
I would stay up late to like 2 a .m or something almost every night.
And even when I got bad sleep, for some reason, like around 9 o 'clock at night, I was suddenly get energetic again.
So that's my, that was my natural pattern.
But with twins, they wake up at 4 .30 or 5 a .m.
every single morning.
And after four and a half years of waking up, but somewhere around that time, before 6, certainly, um, I've kind of shifted now.
And I train jujitsu in the mornings now.
So now I find that at night, I'm, because of being with my kids all day, and waking up so early at night, I'm like, I have no energy.
I just, that's my time to just lay around.
I want to watch some little videos or read something light.
But uh, best energy now is mornings.
Well, this is an interesting question.
Kolkuk says, I have listened to English daily for four hours, and I've been shadowing for two hours, but I've not progressed in speaking yet.
Well, how many weeks or months have you done that?
So this is the question.
I've not progressed yet.
I haven't improved yet in my speaking.
So my next question is, how have you been doing that?
One week, uh, 30 weeks, three years, you know, that's important, obviously, the duration.
So let me know, and then I'll try to answer your question.
Mr. Bombardier says, I am an engineer.
Good. English is an amazing tool.
I'm applying the seven powerful rules to learn effortless English.
Yes, amazing. Great.
Uh, yeah, it really makes sense now.
I don't know why I just, uh, I was surprised by it, you know, doctors, nurses, engineers, managers, but now I realize because what's the, what's the common, what's the connection?
Because I was a little confused.
I'm like, well, engineers, doctors, nurses, managers, business managers, you know, like in a company and then like teachers and professors.
This seems like very different groups of people, but I realized what is the common thing?
They all potentially, like a lot of them are involved in international projects.
That's what it is, right?
A lot of doctors and nurses are, uh, well, I mean, you know, a lot of them go abroad or they work in, uh, they work internationally, but then, uh, many others present at conferences and, uh, seminars internationally.
What are they doing?
They need English for that, right?
Or they're just trying to learn research and talk to other, uh, you know, technical people.
Same thing, like I mentioned with engineers, it makes sense.
There's so many international projects.
Now, you travel around to different countries, especially countries where like it's booming, right?
Where there's just a huge amount of building happening.
All these engineering projects, they're building bridges and railroads and places like Vietnam and Thailand and Malaysia.
And that's just in Asia, right?
Uh, this Indonesia, um, I know throughout Latin America as well, this is happening.
So, you know, they're building so much, they're growing so fast.
India is another one.
Um, that, you know, and a lot of they're building so all these partnerships.
That's the word I was looking for before.
Partnerships with, uh, it's like a local company and a foreign company.
It's super common, right?
I've just noticed this traveling around in my travels is just these partnership projects are so, so common in all of these countries.
Uh, so, you know, a Japanese company and an Indian company doing something together, right?
Lots of Chinese companies doing this, uh, like a Chinese company and a Vietnamese company building something or making something together.
It's super, super common.
Now, in some cases, you know, maybe there might be another shared language that can, might be possible, right?
Like if, uh, I don't know, a Mexican company and, uh, Argentinian company, okay, they can both use Spanish.
That's fine, right?
Uh, there might be certain countries where they could share, you know, they could use Chinese or maybe some partnerships.
They could use Russian or something like that, but a lot, a lot, probably most they're going to use English as the common language to communicate, right?
The Japanese engineers talking to the Indonesian engineers.
What language do they use?
Are they going to speak Indonesian?
Are they going to speak Japanese?
Probably they're going to speak English, right?
Because if one company does a lot of these projects, or then it's too hard for them, for all these languages, right?
Like maybe there's an, let's say there's an Indonesian engineering company and they're doing projects with the Japanese company.
And then they do another project with the Chinese company and another one with an American company to try to learn, like to have all their engineers learn Japanese and learn Chinese and learn English and learn German is too much, right?
This is why we have this, this is why English at the moment is the global language.
It's just convenient.
Let's pick one. Let's pick one.
Everybody learned the one and then it's, it's simple.
We don't have to all learn 10 languages, right?
This is the idea. So English is for now.
All right. Oh, Christian Vargas says hi from Colombia.
This is my first time here.
I learned a lot with you.
Thanks to your podcasts.
Welcome. Thank you.
Uh, Tahani says I am from Egypt, another country that's growing.
When I listen for you to understand, but I listen to native speakers on YouTube.
Oh, I sometimes struggle with some.
So yeah, in Egypt, you know, these BRICS countries are all going to be growing like crazy.
They already are. But again, right?
They're, they're typically, you know, Arabic speakers.
Eric, Arabic, you know, speakers and, you know, engineering or other fields, they need to talk to Russian companies.
They can talk to Chinese companies, you know, Indians, you know, pick a language.
It's usually going to be English.
So anyway, this problem of understanding all native speakers.
So, you know, some, every native speaker is not exactly the same.
Native speaker, meaning someone who learned as a baby, right?
They're different accents and also different speeds.
There's also a different, uh, we call it register, I suppose, but, you know, a different level of formality, meaning some are going to speak very casually using lots of idioms and slang and others avoid that.
Don't use it much. So I don't use much slang or idioms a little, not much.
I speak fairly slowly, naturally, and I have a very standard American accent.
It's easy to understand for most people.
So I'm pretty under easy to understand as a native speaker.
But, you know, you find another native speaker who speaks faster, who uses a lot of slang and idioms, right?
It might even have a non -standard accent, a less common accent.
You add those things together, and now this person might be very hard to understand.
So you got to get used to them.
And you just got to practice with other speakers.
You can, this is a great thing about YouTube and other podcasts and things.
You can listen to Scottish people.
You can listen to South Africans.
You can listen to Australians and news people from New Zealand and people from different parts of America.
And you can listen to professional people who are using a fairly formal kind of English.
And you can listen to teenagers who are using super casual English.
And you'll gradually get used to them.
So it's hard to do all of that.
So I recommend in the beginning, the most useful is a standard accent and not too casual, not super formal, but like kind of, you know, basically what I use.
Okay, this is the most common kind of English you're going to hear in, especially in work situations and travel to mostly.
Hey Vladislav, great to see you.
Nice to see you. He says when I started studying my new profession of astronomy, very interesting field, I already understood English articles in this field quite well because of my good general English.
Exactly. Great. So he starts a new field, astronomy.
Okay, so astronomy, very technical, right?
Science is so astronomy has its own, lots of its own vocabulary.
But that's no big deal for a lot of stuff because he already has great English.
So for him, he starts reading about astronomy.
It's it would be like me starting to study astronomy, like me getting an astronomy book and starting to read about it.
There might be like I might see, you know, neutron star.
Huh, what's that? I don't know.
Right. But I already know English so I can just read the explanation.
Right. And then I can.
Oh, that's what a neutron star is.
Okay. Got it. Right.
Red giant. And I figured that out.
Right. So I could pick up a lot of that vocabulary fairly easily because the explanations are all in normal English.
I just need to learn the specific astronomy words, but everything else I already would understand.
And this is what Vladislav said.
He already understands all that.
He already has a high level of English.
He's very, you know, very high level.
So just learning astronomy, it's not a language problem for him.
He can just focus on the astronomy part, you know, the mathematics and the things.
You know, I can't help you with that.
Sorry. But if you've got a high level of general English conversational and even reading to then these specific fields are not a problem for you.
And if you it's even easier, if you already know it, if he was already an astronomer, had a PhD in astronomy already, then you know, and his English is high.
I know it's nothing.
He's got what he needs.
You might need to just learn the translation of a few words.
It wouldn't be that big a deal.
Okay, a couple more and then I'm going to go trying to keep these a little shorter so I can do them more.
Sarah says the more you listen and read, the more you become confident.
This is why I liked our challenges.
Good point, Sarah. Yeah, like us for says more half asked for says, English is the language of modern science and modern science, academia in general, right?
Most scholarly university kind of topics, engineering, professional topics or fields, areas of work, right?
But you know, that's the good news about it.
I know for you, it means you've got to learn English, you know, but at least the good news is it's only one language.
Okay. It's great. Some people do love learning lots of languages and wonderful go ahead and do it.
But the truth is in for most professional reasons and travel to with just English, you can do pretty much anything you need.
Okay. Right. It's nice if you also learn German and Russian and Chinese and, you know, Hindi and all the Arabic.
Of course, Spanish, Portuguese, these are all great Japanese.
But that's a lot of time and a huge amount of work to learn all of those languages at a high level, a level, a professional level where you can use them in your job.
You know, yes, you can find on YouTube, you can find these people who speak 10 languages and they say that they speak them all super high levels professionally or 20 or something.
I don't know. I can't judge it.
Right. But for most normal people who are working and have families just learning one language, one foreign language, English at a high level professionally is already a big challenge and takes a lot of time.
So especially for professional reasons, I recommend focus on English.
That's the you're going to get the most benefit for the time.
And then if you have more time after that, you know, you can pick another one that might be helpful for you.
But English, you should have no problems if you just learn English well.
Like Abdallah Tif says, hi from Algeria, I am a petroleum engineer.
Another example. Right.
You can see, you know, engineers, there's so many specialized kinds of engineering.
So like a book, like this Cambridge book, you know, English for engineering, that's still super general.
What kind of engineering, petroleum engineers, talking about oil and, you know, drilling for oil and all these, you know, refining it and all these things.
That's way, way, way, way, way, way different than like, say, an aeronautic engineer, aeronautical engineer is building airplanes or electrical engineer that can have quite different vocab when they're discussing their jobs and projects.
When you do the next book club.
Oh, yeah, we'll do the next book club again.
I'll do another. We'll do the next chapter of our book.
Our book is ultra learning.
We started our new book last time about a week and a half ago.
So we'll get there soon.
Thank you. And the profile is Mr.
Raccoon with a little raccoon picture.
Okay. Maymay Young says, Do you have any plans for an English seminar in Malaysia?
I'm I've been thinking of visiting Malaysia mostly just for fun.
Um, recently, in the past, quite a while ago, actually, I did do a couple seminars in Malaysia, Ginting Highlands, we did one, and one in KL.
But I haven't done one in quite a long time in KL.
So or anywhere in Malaysia.
So maybe, maybe I might just visit Malaysia.
If I just visit, we'll do a meeting.
I'll just on Twitter and gab, I'll put a message and maybe we can just we can just get together and have a big big group of people and have coffee or something.
And that's I like to do that, at least when I travel and meet meet effortless English students.
Oh, do one for professionals in Malaysia, says Maymay Young.
That's a great idea, actually.
Yeah, Malaysia is another one of these countries.
There's so many countries now where it's just, you know, the West, things kind of stalled out.
But a whole lot of the world, you know, these countries are booming, growing so fast, and there's so much happening, which is why that's one reason I love Asia, because Asia is one of these regions, Asia, and then, you know, certainly South America, Latin America, I should say, all of Latin America is similar.
And, and now, you know, you know, all the BRICS nations and then Africa is starting to really take off now.
So yeah, exciting for lots of places.
Peter Cruz says, What about Mexico?
Do you have any plan to come here?
I've been to Mexico, we took my wife and I took a very nice trip, just for fun.
It wasn't business.
It was just fun. We traveled around Mexico for a while, Mexico, and it was great.
So no plans at the moment, because now I'm way over in Japan.
So at that time, we were in America was easy to go down to Mexico, and Latin America in general.
But now I'm way over now I'm over in Japan, it's gonna it's a long flight just to get to the United States, then another flight to go down south.
So with my kids at the moment, young kids, no plans for the next few years.
I think the next few years will just be staying in Asia.
We do we want to start doing a little traveling with the kids.
We've we did our first short trip last month, the Guam, very close.
But we're thinking maybe just Southeast Asia, you know, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, that kind of area.
Cool. Sarah says I took the English place.
I took an English placement test.
I got an intermediate level without studying.
I just listened to your mini stories.
So that's just just the mini stories.
That's great, Sarah.
Fantastic. Sajad Khan says Hi, I am a digital marketer.
I like your podcasts.
Nice. Welcome. Kokok says I'm a beginner would help me to learn if I visited an English speaking country.
I would say not really know.
Unless you're really an extrovert.
What I mean by that is if you just love to get out and talk to people, and you don't care if your English is really low, and you're just gonna talk, try to talk to everybody you meet.
Yes, it could help you quite a lot.
You could do that Benny Lewis thing, you know, just just speaking English all the time, don't speak your own language at all.
And right, that's fine.
If you're more of a normal person, where that would make you nervous or stressed, then I would say no, I would say try to get to an intermediate level first, then go to an English speaking country.
So like I found this just speaking Spanish, you know, like that, when I went to Spanish speaking countries, Mexico, for example, as a beginner, it was terrible, I didn't hardly use it, it just felt stressful, and a little, you know, a few words, but like, not really didn't, wasn't very enjoyable.
And then, then I did, you know, for the Camino de Santiago in Spain, I learned, learned, learned, I listened like crazy, and was reading a lot in Spanish, only for about four months.
But luckily, Spanish is pretty close to English.
So I got up to like an intermediate level, just low intermediate.
But that was a huge difference, because then that's that trip, I enjoyed myself much more, and use Spanish much more.
And it was much more enjoyable language, and also just the trip.
So I think, I think it's much more fun, I think, by just to get when you're a beginner, just you can do things alone at your home, you don't need to travel anywhere.
When you start getting up into intermediate levels, it might be enjoyable then, because then you can have you can chat with people a little bit, even it's just small talk, it starts to become a lot more fun.
Chris says now understand why everyone says good morning, it's 11 o 'clock at night here.
Ah, yeah. That's afternoon here in Japan at the moment.
And MD also doctor right here, Shari Hassan says, Hassan says many stories are amazing and fun for listening as well as improving.
Exactly, exactly. All right, guys, I'm gonna go now.
That's a love to all of you, but I'll be back again soon with another show.
I've got jujitsu tomorrow.
So probably not tomorrow, but Sunday, I'll do another show about that.
Okay. So engineers and all other professionals, right?
You watch this again, but don't stress too much about the technical words, you can learn those yourself.
But you got to get to that effortless English speaking fluency.
And with that focus mostly on that general English, and then technical stuff won't be too tough.
All right, lots of love to you all.
See you next time. Bye for now.
