Fluency vs Academic English
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
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🗓️ 15 August 2007
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is AJ. Wow, I'm back after a long break. |
| 0:07.0 | So today I want to talk about something important. I think it's an important distinction. A distinction is kind of like the |
| 0:19.5 | word difference. I want to talk about two different goals, two different parts of learning English, both very important, but sometimes people confuse these and it's |
| 0:38.8 | important to understand they are different. What are these two things? |
| 0:44.0 | Well the two things, the two goals are fluency and, number two, academic or professional mastery of English. |
| 1:00.0 | So we have two things, fluency and we'll call it academic level English |
| 1:09.1 | Now what is what do I mean? Let's talk about fluency first. |
| 1:14.0 | What is fluency? |
| 1:16.0 | Fluency comes from the word fluid, |
| 1:20.0 | FLU-I-D, and fluid, Flu I d. And fluid as an adjective means something that moves easily, moves easily. |
| 1:31.0 | Like water. In fact, as a noun, fluid means something like water. Water like. |
| 1:39.0 | Okay, and water moves very easily, right? It can move any direction very quickly and easily. |
| 1:46.8 | So fluency, we're talking about English fluency. What do we mean? Well, we mean the words move easily. |
| 1:55.0 | And what does that mean? It means you speak without effort. |
| 2:01.0 | You speak English without thinking. You speak English without translating. You speak |
| 2:08.8 | English fast quickly and easily. That is fluency and the effortless English club those are the |
| 2:18.8 | lessons you pay for that it's a fluency program a fluency program. It's focused on fluency. It's the purpose of my lessons is to help learners speak easily and quickly, easily and fast. |
| 2:39.0 | That's fluency. |
| 2:42.0 | Native speakers are all fluent. |
| 2:45.0 | Every native speaker is fluent. |
| 2:47.1 | They, unless they have a brain problem, |
| 2:50.4 | but if they're a basically normal person they can speak English quickly and easily |
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