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Hello. Welcome to this uh little live deal here. Let's talk about language learning strategy. In the meantime, I'm going to look through my hands on Spanish uh blocks. All right.

If anyone pops up and wants to talk about language learning strategy, we can do that at that time. So, in no particular order, just been making these for a video course. We've got C and we have no yes and no, right? See, oh no. All right. So far, you can't really make a sentence out of that because see and no answers uh a question and there's no question on the table. See and no.

If you're just jumping in here, feel free to send messages in the chat. We can make it a conversation. And in the meantime, I'm going to go through my Spanish hands on blocks. In no particular order, we have aso. Aso means that. If you're wondering why I have long fingernails, this is the time to ask. Aso. All right. See, no. Aso. So far, there's no there's no sentence. We have a book. We have a dictionary. We have a whiteboard. Still no sentence. Getting close to a sentence because you can say that is, but we don't have the is there. Still no complete sentence on the board. Ah, look what came next. S is what I call a verb nucleus. Vocabulary orbits like a like a planet. Like the vocabulary orbits around a verb nucleus. It's the protons, the electrons. I don't know. I'm not a a scientist, but it's the same idea for sure. Vocab. So, for example, a book, a dictionary, a whiteboard orbits around the verb nucleus because without the verb nucleus, it would float off into space. Imagine if I just said a book. You'd say, "What about a book? What what about it?" It's not held together by any verb nucleus. S is a great verb nucleus. So now you could say that's it's a book. So what's that? It's a book. Say it with me. Point to a dictionary. What's that dictionario? What's that? It's a whiteboard, right? Wow. Okay. Now you have a complete sentence. The verb nucleus holds together something like this. You could say that pointing to something that is a xyz, right? It's all held together by the verb nucleus. You take the verb nucleus away, you have nothing. It all floats off into space. You can't just say that a book. No, it's held together by s as s. It's the center of center of gravity. All right. You can take away like the planet doesn't need the moon, but the moon needs the planet. You know, it's like you can take away as you say, it's a book on, right? You can even probably take away that and just say s oops s. It's kind of a complete sentence. It is S kind of, you know. Yes, it is. C S. See? Yes. What? Yeah, it's it's a book. That's a book. Libro. See? Esro. All held together by the verb nucleus.

So, if we keep that verb nucleus in hand, that's this. That's that. A aso s. That's what? K. That is what ASOSK kind of works. What is it? KS. If you could see my desk desktop, you like the actual desktop, you'd see how these lay down on the table like a puzzle and you can create conversation in Spanish by hand. You know how people have trouble putting together sentences? Like, oh, I've studied Spanish for years, but I still can't put together sentences. All right. will put together sentences by hand and just keep doing that until you can put them together in your head. Sometimes the hands solve something that the intellect battles with. That's a Carl Young quote. All right. What is it? KS. KS. How do you say what's that? KSO. Point to this. Point to that. Is that a guitar? point to a thing. KSO don't meando. Thank you, Muhammad. Same to you. What's this? KS, right? Oh, it's uh the answer S. It's easier on a tabletop. This one li this that. All right. Verb nucleus. Questions or answers. What's that KS?

All right. Uh, how about this? Oi is today. So using blocks we already have. How would you say today is? Today is os somewhere in here. I've got Oh, here it is. Look. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Lun Martingo. Today really happens to be Ves. So a true statement would be oi espier's major mantra here in this whole method only learn true things. Today is Saturday. You're in Australia, that works. Sabado. Today's not Saturday, right? Okay. Es where I am. The mantra only learn true things. If you only ever learn true things, imagine how much of that textbook book that you are have been pouring over for imagine how much of that would just be cut out and in that app if you only learn true things. There's there's so many true things to say now. There's no like I could look around and there's always something to say. Why am I on this Spanish learning app and it's telling me like, oh, you should learn how we're going to you have to say Pedro and Mohamad are going on a picnic. All this madeup stuff. No, learn to say true things. Also, I don't need to memorize every day of the week right now, you know, just because like my that's what's in the chapter for this week. That's what's on the test this week. You got to know all of the name words for all this. No, if you only learn true things, then I'd say oi s is the verb nucleus. It holds together everything. I can't just say today, Saturday. I need to I could say s. I can say o. The verb nucleus holds together the vocabul the vocabulary orbits around the verb nucleus. This happens all this happens all the time. All right. I learned three languages and good awesome Muhammad. Keep up the good work. All right. Uh, bueno. By the way, tomorrow manñana. Can I just say mñana? No. What about mñana? Mñana s mñana s oi. No mñana. No s o mñana as sabado. Right. If it's sabado for you right now inspo. What day? What day is that a complete sentence? No. nucle the verb nucleus k. That's magnetic. It goes locks into its orbit k today. It all orbits around s k via soy. Your answer is oi s as this day or that day. All right. All of that has been held together. Brought to you by s the verb nucleus s. This is the pile so far. It's the video course I'm making. It's available already. Meusta. I would like something. Would you like that? Right. Okay. What? What would you like? In other words, what what's the vocabulary that could orbit around the verb nucleus? I would like this. Meia. Let me find something that works. means to go. So I would like to go. Ahmed, good to hear from you. Very happy to hear that. If anyone speaks Arabic here, we could try that out. Um, I would like to go everyone. Where would you like to go? To Mexico, to Colombia, to Spain, to Japan, to any place. All right. So again, just mixing and matching building blocks, doing playing Spanish like a puzzle, like a tabletop puzzle on a rainy day, like a the the thousandpiece Bavarian castle, you know, puzzle. You're doing Spanish as a puzzle. So verb nucleus meust, what does it um contain? In other words, what does it keep in its orbit? Well, you could say I'd like I I would like to I'd like to go. It's easier on the tabletop. Where do you switch out for and you have instant conversation. So instead of studying Spanish in theory, you can actually get like you're practicing jiu-jitsu with someone. So like if I could hear you right now and you wanted to ask me, Tony, would you like to go to to XYZ place? You'd say, Tony Mexico, you know, Dubai here or there. And now it works to say see or no see see what yes you would like to go to such and such place. See what you'd like to go where China. Would you like to do that? See Mexico or just wide open question. All right. When we make a statement such as I would like to go to XYZ place statement statement is one. This is a numerical code here for us. Okay. One is a statement. Two is a yes no question. So switch out for Dubai. That's two. Two is a yes no question. Three and it only goes up to three is an open-ended question such like such as wide open question. So ask me Tony. It's three two yes no question statement whatever no ade You could switch out ear for any other verb similar to it. So tomar is similar to drink. All right. So, I would like to drink Meustaria Tomar. What would you like to drink? I have it somewhere. Oh, here it is. Cafe T aua. Um, I would like to drink XYZ. That's a statement. One, I'd like to drink coffee. Why would you say that? I don't know what situation I would like to do this. I don't know. It's theoretical. We got to find the most useful.

So, here's what you do. Let's take this meus verb nucleus and set it aside and find um this would work. boy bus. If we're still using tomar, I'm going to boy tomar. Maybe more uh useful like in a real life context. What are you going to drink? Like we're all sitting down at the table. What are you going to drink? Um I'm going to drink water. Boyar awa. Boyar aua. All right. Boy is the verb nucleus. If I just said drink water or if I just said water out of nowhere, water. Awa. It's like what about it? Oh, you're going to drink water. Bas a I need an ah. I have an ah here. The letter ah in the middle. I have it here. Boy. Atomar aua basa aua. Switch out the boy boss verb nucleus for I want to or do you want to khmar question for you two yes no question. Awa. If not, then what do you want to drink? Do you know how to say what? K. I have K here somewhere. You need a big table to do this at some point. Here it is. K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K K Kish. See how all language is a mixand match puzzle? You don't have to study the dialogue the way it's written and try to memorize the dialogue like language classes have you do. It's not about memorization. It's about being able to mix and match the blocks that you have currently. It's not, oh, I need to learn more. I can't speak Spanish yet because I only know 700 words. And soon as I hit that thousand though, then I'll be able to speak. Can you speak using the seven the 70 or seven words that you have? If you can't have a conversation with 7 to 70 words, then you wouldn't be able to have a conversation with 700 to 7,000 words. It's not about learning more words. It's about being able to use the words you have. All right. So, what do you want? Hello, Hugh. Good to see you. Kitties. That's That works. It's not It's kind of rude. Time to go live in Dio. Kitties. What do you want? It's kind of rude. Kitties. Kitty. Someone. All right. Little nicer. What do you want? What do you want to drink? Kittar. Kis. Tomar. One is a statement. Two is a yes no question. Three is an open-ended question. Kisto is an open-ended question. If you want to take turn the open-ended question into a direct yes no question, then you could just sayar go up. Kistomar kistoar cafe. There's no rule that says language has to go left to right. You can go this way. It's a 2D matrix. It has this axis and this axis. You could go here. All right. Kisafear. What else do you want to do? I want to go. Where do you want to go? We had this already. Mexico. It's a remix. Just we're remixing. It's not again not about learning more words. It's about remixing what you already have. Question for you. Mexico is here. Kid is there. See? Oh no. I want to go to the polyglot gathering. Nice polyglot gathering. Huh? To where do you want to go? Open-ended question. Where do you want to go? Today or tomorrow? Remember how we were talking about, oh, today's Thursday? Today's Friday. This and that. Where do you want to go tomorrow? Going to boy. Boss boss. You're going to to where? Are you going? That's a complete sentence question. Where you going? Hey, where you going? My little card that says, "Ah, there it is." Bas where are you going to? telling you it's easier. Easier on the tabletop. Where are you going to go? When? Today? O. All right. Where are you going to go? I have no more hands. Mñana. Now remember the mantra only learn true things. So when the question manana comes up on my tabletop my puzzle I have to actually tell you where I'm going to go tomorrow. It's not just the theoretical how would you say this like try to get it right try to get the answer right. No say the actual say the true thing. Ask me um I'm going to go. That's the verb nucleus. Boy seems redundant, but you can say I'm going to go. Boy to you traveling going to Mexico tomorrow. A Mexico mñana Colombia maybe Espa maybe just the park around the corner you know al Park you could put it fill in the blank all right boy a Mexico boy a oh it's here right when's that happening mñana Huh? See, Mexico manñana. No, I'm not going to Mexico tomorrow. No, I haven't dedicated no around here. No. No. boy a Mexico mñana right putting it back down on the table when are you going to do a live stream about French that's a good idea well I would do I would play French the same way that I'm playing Spanish here like a puzzle which you can see my desktop imagine a bunch of these and my job is to create conversation by mixing and mashing the building blocks. All right. I'm not super great at French. I know that is al something like that. Okay. I'm going is right. I would I'd start I'd get a new deck of cards and write it in French. Right. Ju that's my best I'm sorry that's my best pronunciation all right it's the same concept I do this for Hindi especially for Hindi I I the crazier the word order and the less familiar it is the more I need to physically and I think a lot of people express this to I put the sentence together by hand all right so I'm going to what are you going to do al right A L L E R al. How do you say tomorrow in French? Demo. Yeah, I'm going to uh XYZ tomorrow. XYZ. Ah, you're going to Tuva. to uh I need a placeholder. IKEA. I don't know. Okay. IKEA. You going Are you going You're going to IKEA tomorrow? It's French now. IKEA. Now say we we we or no I could write that in like here and that's now a block. It's not going anywhere. There's no way to forget it because if you ever forget it, just find it again and go okay XYZ or XYZ. All right. Every place that you ever want to go today, tomorrow. Oi. Erase it. Right. IKEA really same way spelled the same IKEA. No, I'm not going to IKEA today. No, IKEA. I'm going to IKEA tomorrow. IKEA. Right. There's only three cards here, which is why you don't need 80 words. You don't need 80,000 words. People say, "Oh, you need 80,000 words before you can speak a language fluently." Okay. Can you speak the language fluently? Not on all topics, of course, but if I gave you eight words, could you be fluent with the eight words? And here's the my whole hypothesis. If you can't be fluent in eight words, you wouldn't be fluent with 80,000 words. All right. Anything else that we could put into French means I want this in French? That's V. Again, I'm not great at French. That's my best pronunciation. V. V E U X. V. You need a new card that says, "What do you want to do? You want to go IKEA? Do you want to?" No. All right. If you're doing Arabic, you can same idea. All right. Any comments or questions here. Let's get through the rest of the deck in Spanish and then we'll get out of here. I had this Lugar and Elmundo or it could be Lugar del Mundo place in the world. And the question was if you could If you could like if you could travel to any place in the world, where would it be and why? That'll be the last thing that we do here. These are all blank. I could have just written French. There he goes. All right. Um, lugar delundo I guess is maybe better than anyway. If you could later, I'm gonna tell you my answer. If I could remember I would like to travel, right? So if you could if you could travel to the person saying I like your videos. Thank you. if you could travel. All right, this is advanced grammar, but it's really not that hard. There's no such thing as advanced grammar. Um, could talk about more talk more about that some point if you want. All right, if you could travel to Any any what? Any place of the world. Any place in the world, you know. Any anywhere in the world. Any place of the world. Kido. imagine doing this on a desktop to wear was just here a second ago. Where would you like to? Where would you like to Where would you like to what? Go travel. Travel. Where would you like to travel? All right. See if you can remember that. If you could Imagine this on a tabletop. Where would you like to travel and p? All right. Well, if I could travel anywhere in the world, I would like to travel to Mexico because I would like to eat tacos. It could be a silly answer if you want. Com to eat. That was just here too. I would like to eat mole like a typical Mexican dish. Mole tacos meust mole. All right. So I would like to travel. to Mexico because to because I'd like to eat tacos tacos. All right. So, if you could, and this is just a challenge for me to keep my desk organized. All right, look. If you could travel any any at all. Got it. and why right this is no it's only 13 cards to do this whole little conversation Even though it seems like advanced grammar that you wouldn't ever be allowed you to talk like you wouldn't get to this grammar until semester million and you got to pay to learn this like you got to reup and then we'll then we'll show you the advanced grammar. All right, it's 12 cards I think 12 13 cards and this is going to be the last thing. Any comments or questions you have right now in the comments are welcome and I'll ask or answer. But if not, then here's the deal. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you want to travel and why? It's in here somewhere. If I ask you that question, I'm serving. Like in tennis, the ball is in your court and you have to come up with an answer on the spot. That's the true practice. That's how you know when you know something in Spanish. How how are you tested in terms of what you know in Spanish? What vocabulary test or fill in the blank? Can you get the grammar right? Is it Bill goes to the store or Bill go to the store? Which one is right? Well, the native speaker of English can easily tell you, oh, it's Bill goes to work because it sounds right. So, what's the rule there? Do you even know? No one knows. I mean, there's I heard a quote recently by Claude Deucey. I didn't hear it from, but I found a quote that supposedes from Claude Deucey. said, "Great art." No, rules don't create great art. Great art creates rules. And it's the same with grammar rules. Grammar rules don't create language. Language creates grammar rules. So, the native speaker of English could easily tell you, "Bill goes to work, not Bill go to work." you know, but because I know that or because I know the rule like, well, third person, just because I know the rule doesn't mean that I can actually um it works the other way around. The rules don't don't make me an English speaker. Me being an English speaker makes me know the rules. And it's same with Spanish. You're putting the cart before the horse. If you think you're going to study Spanish and then you'll be able to speak Spanish. You have to figure out how to speak Spanish. And through speaking Spanish, then you know Spanish. It's like saying, "I'm going to try to learn how to swim so I can get in the pool." Obviously, you have to get in the pool in order to swim. And so being in the pool in terms of language learning, there's and there's no two ways about this. Everyone in the world will try to sell you on the idea. Well, just come do our app and then you're going to be, you know, it's like saying, "Oh, you want to learn to box? Do my app." It's like, "Oh, I'm going to learn to box by using an app." Okay. What being in the pool means is I have to be able to ask you a question and you have to be able to answer. So for example, if I said and someone says I want to travel to Argentina because I like the music and the nature in Argentina. Great. You have to be able to say that in Spanish. So, you have to be able to say and you have to be able to say it by reflex, not by recall. Not like, oh, I'm going to recall these words. No, you'll come up short. It has to be reflex. You have to be able to say, all right, then you got to ask me. And you got to be ready to ask, too. You got to stud. What about you? If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you travel to and why? Now, the ball is in my court. So, you have to be good at both offense and defense. Just like on a tennis court, you can't just be good at returning. You can't just be good at serving. It's live game play. All right. So, with no further ado, you're asking me and my answer is because I got him in my head just like you. You will pieral last minute comments or questions. You've got one minute and then it's Gracias atosir. I hope you like the This is in my school group. Just go to my school links all over the my channel School Lingual Black School. It's free to join. There's video courses in there. The video courses aren't free, but you can be a premium member and get all the video courses. Anyway, this is a um comes from a hands-on Spanish course that I'm currently doing where we're building these together. This is the exact cards from that course. All right, gracias to thanks everyone for coming. We'll do it again sometime. Ciao.