Name: YOU KNOW YOU'RE FLUENT IN ENGLISH WHEN... (fluency quiz! test your English!!)
Uploaded: 2018-06-28T06:30:39.000Z
Duration: 19 min 12 s
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hey what's up Stefanie the English
coach here from EnglishFullTime.com

in this video we are gonna talk about
how to know when you're fluent in

English and actually you can use this
little quiz I guess that I made to test

if you're fluent in other languages as
well but basically we're gonna talk

about things that happen to you and to
your English when you are fluent so you

can know hey are you fluent or are you
not fluent what are you good at what do

you still have to work on okay because
if you've studied English for any length

of time that's longer than you know a
couple months you know that listening to

English every single day does not make
you fluent studying English for years

and different English Institutes does
not make you fluent having private

teachers does not make you fluent using
English at work does not make you fluent

even having a degree or a certificate or
something you know from formal higher

education a university or something like
that doesn't make you fluent I could go

on and on none of this stuff makes you
fluent right because you and I both know

people that have done this kind of stuff
and they still aren't fluent maybe you

are even someone who's done stuff like
this and you're not fluent okay so it's

a journey it's a process I'm here to
help you with this but I want to explain

some of the things that happen to you
when you are fluent in a foreign

language and I'm speaking from
experience go ahead and click the link

up here to watch a video where I'm
speaking Spanish you can hear how I used

to speak at seven years ago versus how I
speak it today okay it's completely

different anyways a lot happened during
my journey of learning Spanish to

finally becoming fluent and the thing
about fluency that makes it really hard

to detect is that it does not happen
overnight right it's not like one day

you're not fluent and the next day oh my
gosh you're fluent it happens slowly

over time and you usually don't even
realize your improvements as you're

improving you realize them when you look
back at where you started and you see

how far you've come okay so let's talk
about how to know when you're fluent

there are different things that we're
going to talk about speaking

understanding how other people
understand you etcetera let's get into

it so you know you're fluent when
you understand at least one dialect of

English perfectly you understand
everything now granted there's going to

be some things you don't understand I
mean there's words in English that I

don't understand if you try to talk to
me about mechanics or something like

that it's not that I'm not fluent in
English I'm just not familiar with that

kind of technical jargon because I don't
ever use it right so when you're fluent

in a language you understand everything
except for the things that you're not

really familiar with or maybe once in a
while I hear a new idiom and I'm like

how I've never heard that before
or I hear a new slang term that the

younger generations are using okay I
feel so old saying that but seriously

I'm starting to realize how old I am
because I'm hearing slang and I'm just

like oh my gosh kids are saying that
these days anyways so you know you're

fluent when you understand English
pretty much perfectly one dialect of

English because there are so many
different dialects you guys I went to

Ireland and I could barely understand
people there so don't feel like you need

to understand every single native
speaker that's just not realistic okay

next you know you're fluent when you can
speak automatically without translating

in your head you don't even have to
think about what you're gonna say or how

you're gonna say it you just speak you
don't worry when you're in conversations

like oh my gosh how should i form this
sentence what verb tense should I use

you're not even having those thoughts
those thoughts are not occurring to you

because you just open your mouth and you
speak and you know exactly what to say

and you know you're fluent when you make
very few errors and you're able to catch

your own mistakes okay so you pretty
much sound like a native speaker you

speak the way that they speak you make
minimal errors and when you do make

errors you're able to catch them and if
you're not sure if you can catch your

errors just write a page in English or
make a video that's two to three minutes

in English and then read what you wrote
and watch your video and try to catch

your own mistakes if you can do it cool
you're pretty close to fluency okay next

you know you're fluent when you can use
a wide range of vocabulary and

expressions and you don't feel like
you're repeating yourself I remember

when I was still learning Spanish I
would say the same things over and over

another way of expressing it for example
I would say ah que interesante

mm que interesante mm que interesante
which means how interesting right but I

would say that for everything you would
tell me something cool and I'd say oh

how interesting you would tell me
something interesting and I would say oh

how interesting you would tell me
something normal and I would say oh how

interesting I literally did not know
other ways to express my feelings and my

emotions and as you get more and more
fluent that becomes easier expressing

your ideas expressing your emotions you
do it effortlessly right and you're not

searching for words like how can I say
this and you don't have that annoying

feeling on the inside where you're just
like man I keep saying the same thing

over and over again I'm so tired of
feeling repetitive okay when you're

fluent you don't have that okay next you
know you're fluent when you can explain

and talk about a variety of subjects
that are conversational and technical I

know a lot of English learners who can
explain everything about their job

perfectly in English but then when you
want to talk you know about something

totally conversational like hey what'd
you do yesterday or what do you eat for

dinner or what are you gonna do later
today they just freeze and they're like

you know because that normal everyday
vocabulary they just don't have it or

they keep forgetting it or something
like that but when you're fluent you can

talk just as easily about casual
conversation type stuff as you would

about your work and the technical jargon
that you use there now if you can't talk

about what you do at work and you lack
that technical jargon then that's one

thing you know you have to improve if
you do know the technical jargon of your

work and you can communicate that easily
in English but you struggle with regular

conversations then you know that your
focus should be on talking with people

everyday in English improving that area
okay next you know you're fluent when

you use grammar tenses naturally and
easily and there's really no such thing

as a difficult tense right when tenses
are difficult for you that's because

you're either a beginner or you're at an
intermediate stage of learning where you

have not become familiarized with all
the tenses and

have not been exposed to them enough to
know when and how to use them because

grammar is actually something we
internalize when you're first learning

it when your teacher is first teaching
you they break it down into every little

structure and they explain every
scenario in situation and time and tense

how it's used etc etc but eventually you
internalize that and you get to a point

where stuff just sounds right you're
like I don't even remember what this

grammar tenses called I just know how to
say it and that's that okay

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