a few days ago

I got a comment on one of my other YouTube videos that I thought was

very very interesting

and also something which i thought

might be

relevant to lot of people

i'm gonna talk about that

in today's video

uh... so

let's take a look at this comment and I'm going to read it out to you I think

I often read some research papers about my major psychology

in english in order to collect

date which is necessary for my graduation thesis

i guess my academic vocabulary has improved through reading

research papers

however

i have problems with speaking english in daily life

if possible could you please tell me how to improve my speaking for daily

conversation

um...

yeah so i think this is a problem which many many many many people

ask me about

let me just say that actually when I

decided to take a master's and I

entered

graduate school

uh... to study linguistics about four years ago now

at first

i actually found it very very difficult to read research papers and academic

books about

that subject

because it was a new subject for me

it was the first time i'd studied it when i

started back that course

i wasn't used to the

vocabulary and the grammar and language used in those research papers

and academic books

but

after

reading a lot

it became very very easy and very very natural

and the reason that is

is because there is this thing called

genre

for example

music has genre

there is rock music rock music is a genre

there's classical music

that is a genre there's pop music pop music is

a genre

and of course

different genres have sub genres so classical has violin and piano

those are all genres within

another music genre

uh... fiction is another good example there are many genres of fiction

for example mystery

mystery is a genre

horror is a genre romance is a genre

think about this

if you want to become and vary good

and very skilled

piano player

listening to a lot of rock music and a lot of heavy metal

is not going to help you become

a very good

pianist

in the same way listening to a lot of piano music

probably is not going to help you get really good

at

the rock guitar

if you want to

get very good at the piano

it's much better to listen to a lot of

piano music right

and if you want to get really good at heavy metal

you should listen to

a lot of heavy metal

make sense?

um... fiction is exactly the same i guess if you want to become a very good

mystery novel writer

reading a lot of romance novels although it is still

a novel and it's still kind of the same kind of thing

it's probably not going to help you so much where as reading a lot of all

the latest

mystery novels is probably going to help you with your on ideas

and become a very good mystery novel writer

english

also has genre

so the language

the grammar and the vocabulary and

phrases and expressions used

and even the style used in

academic writing

or academic speech

is very very different

to the languages used in

for example a business meeting

and the language used in a business meeting or a business situation

is very very different

to the language used

in daily conversation with for example your next door neighbor with a friend

because english like i said has

genre

these are all genres

um... which means if for example you find

it very easy to listen to

the news

and to read the newspaper

but you find it very difficult to understand daily conversation and to

speak in daily conversation

it's probably because

your english is kind of imbalanced

towards news talk

which is very different to daily conversation

the best way to get around this is to find materials which

have a lot of the english you use in daily conversation if you're having

trouble with daily conversation

uh... listen to a lot of very

normal conversations watch the TV drama

shows and things like that are very good i think

um...

try and get a good balance of different genres I think is very good as well

I think maybe that's why the englishclass101 lessons and for me I

use the japanesepod101 lessons i think that's why they were so

good for me because

they have a lot of different situations in conversations and dialogues from

a lot of different kinds of contexts

uh... some will be about a business meeting and some will be about

going to the supermarket and some is conversation with

the character's mother

or something like that gives you a very nice kind of balance of different things

so

yeah I found those audio lessons from japanesepod

englishclass

for english learners I found them very very good

for that ... but yeah if you're finding you have trouble with one kind of english

but not another it's probably because your input is very imbalanced

try

using a lot of different

materials of course reading is also a really really great

read many many different kinds of books and different things

graded readers are very good for this because

they have many different topics

that you can read about

I think that is

about all there is to say on this topic so

see you in the next video