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hi guys its Keith from IELTS speaking

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success here to give you the skills and

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confidence you need for the IELTS

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speaking test and today I want to share

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with you the fluency formula I want to

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show you three easy steps to speaking

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fluently just like this let's get

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straight into it

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so today I'm gonna share with you the

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fluency formula this is a technique that

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I have learnt and developed well I don't

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know if it's mine actually but I've

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developed it over the years and used it

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to speak the languages I speak fairly

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fluently and to help my students as well

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and it is so simple the fluency formula

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so without beating around the bush here

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it is one repeat to substitute 3 make it

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true it doesn't get any easier now I'll

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explain to you exactly how this works

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but first we need to understand

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something called chunks right now what a

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chunks chunk of bread chunk of language

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chunk is a piece of something so a piece

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of language we can have lots of kinds of

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chunks ok we can have collocations

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grammatical patterns idioms functions

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phrasal verbs all of these can be chunks

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two or three words usually put together

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as a chunk of language and this is the

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secret to language learning it really is

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but it's so simple so let's take

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grammatical patterns instead of learning

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I plus am plus going plus to infinitive

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we learn the chunk I'm going to I'm

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going to easy you should have you should

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have listened to me you should have I'd

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rather I'd rather not go so instead of

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thinking of grammar we think of chunks

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I'm going to you should have

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I'd rather and there are hundreds of

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chunks we can also have chunks which are

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fillers and these are very common in

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conversational English thing is right

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well you know oh by the way and when we

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learn these we don't learn

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by plus the plus way we just learned the

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chunk by the way and to really learn

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this effectively I think you have to

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focus on the listening to the sound by

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the way by the way don't think of by the

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way three words think of the sound by

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the way by the way by the way the more

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you say it the more it sounds like one

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sound and that is what the chunk is all

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about we also have phrasal verbs can be

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chunks let's put it off you link it all

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together right let's put it off listen

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up I get up at 6 o'clock sometimes I get

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up at 7 o'clock I get up right is one

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sound I get up that's your chunk it's a

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phrasal verb and it's a chunk I get up

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so we're going to look at taking the

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chunks and putting them into the fluency

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formula so the fluency formula as you

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remember has three parts

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number one is that's right repeat so we

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take an example so here's a grammatical

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chunk right I want to I want to I want

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to go to Paris

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so the chunk is I want to we can make it

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meaningful in this example go to Paris

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now to repeat this it doesn't really

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work if you're just reading it off a

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piece of paper because then you miss so

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much what you really need is to be

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listening a lot and to find listening or

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audio models so if you're listening to a

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podcast or a YouTube video or one of my

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model answers there's lots of those and

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lots of nice examples you can pick out a

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chunk that you want to practice maybe

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it's a chunk you don't feel confident

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with or a chunk you're not very fluent

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with this is a very simple

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right but when you listen you can pick

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up things around pronunciation and I

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think there are three things I recommend

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one is the connected speech so pick up

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pick up the connected speech I want to

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want to connects right I want to I want

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to connected speech number one number

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two pick up the stress the word stress I

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want to go to Paris I want to go to

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Paris did did I want to go to Paris

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you'll notice that the weak forms of 2

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is 2 & 2 again is to the weak forms come

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before the stress so it's not I want to

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go to Paris

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it's I want to go to Paris I want to go

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to Paris so notice the stress so number

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1 notice the connected speech number 2

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notice the stress and number 3 is notice

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the intonation or the rhythm if you like

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a dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee I want to go to Parris Island

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didn't it in I want to go to Paris I

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know we don't speak like that but what

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we do actually I mean when we practicing

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it's useful to pick up button and learn

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this kind of intonation and and rhythm

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so that is repeating I I know I've made

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it sound a bit complicated with all the

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pronunciation but it's just repeat I

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want to go to Paris try and again and

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again brilliant so just repeat it until

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the cows come home though just repeat it

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three or four times is enough that is

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the first step

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and what is happening here is it's a bit

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like going down the gym it's all muscle

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work you're training your muscles in

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your mouth in your jaw and your lips to

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produce the English sounds probably a

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lot of the sounds in your mother tongue

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are different and they use different

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muscles so this is a bit like going down

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the gym right I want to go to Paris I

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want to go to Paris you're practicing

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the weights and the barbell great number

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one is repeating part part Stage two of

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the fluency formula copyright Keith

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O'Hare mm-hmm no it's not really share

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this with the world

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Stage two is correct substitute

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substitute so I want to go to Paris

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substitute go to Paris for another place

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I want to go to Manchester I want to go

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to London I want to go to Australia I

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want to go to New York have a go and

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again and again the secret is the

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practice practice now what's happening

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here is not only is it muscle practice

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but you're starting to engage the brain

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a little bit just a little bit and

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you're building flexibility I want to go

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to Paris I want to go to London it's

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great practice and you'll notice you're

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actually also practicing lots of place

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names cities or countries this is stage

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2 substitution for example I want to go

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to London I want to go to the cinema I

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want to go home that's all we're doing

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substitute and repeat ok

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if possible try not to read this because

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you don't want to be reading aloud that

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is not going to help you because

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surprise surprise when you go down the

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shop or the pub and speak to your

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friends you don't have your scripts

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written in front of you it has to be up

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here okay so avoid reading that

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substitution number three stage three of

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the fluency formula is very good well

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done Stage three is make it true make it

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true here takes it a step further so not

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only are we working the muscles not only

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are we building flexibility but we are

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now engaging the brain by thinking about

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what is true for me I want to go to

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Paris really do you really want to go to

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Paris or somewhere else what is true for

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you oh I don't want to go to Paris at

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all I want to go to Sydney make it true

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for you so you create sentences that are

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true for you if we went back before - I

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want to go to London maybe not I want to

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go to Sydney I want to go to Africa the

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cinema mmm I want to go to the theatre

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and so here we make it true maybe I want

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to go to Paris I want to go to the

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cinema I want to go out actually I don't

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want to go to Paris so here you could be

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even changing the grammatical chunk if

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you want but making it true so we bring

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it all together we've got muscle

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practise flexibility and here engaging

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the brain so we're thinking and these

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three steps can be done in probably

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under a minute with any chunk but it is

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a great start and found

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to build your fluency of course you need

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to go the next step and get down the pub

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or the shop or the into the street and

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practicing with people so you're

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reacting but you've built up this great

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base for your fluency and it all sits

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around chunks right chunks like I want

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to show you three easy steps to speaking

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fluently just like this just like this I

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want to show you three easy steps

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to speaking fluently just like this

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that's how we build fluency that is the

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fluency formula don't just sit there get

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out there start practicing it's better

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to do five minutes every day rather than

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one hour once a week do a little bit

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every day and you will see your fluency

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really picking up for the chunks go and

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look at some sample answers go and find

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some audio and pick out the chunks you

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want to work on remember don't read

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listen that's it the fluency formula

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have fun thank you very much oh if you

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enjoyed this video if you found it

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useful share it with a friend subscribe

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here and why not leave a comment I mean

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do you want to go to Paris where do you

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really want to

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give me a comment even those writing

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it's a good start and that's it I look

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forward to seeing you again soon thank

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you very much

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