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0:00You can read a scientific paper in
0:02English. You can watch an entire series
0:04without subtitles. You know what the
0:06word nevertheless means. You know what
0:09albeit means. You probably know what
0:11notwithstanding means.
0:13And then a tourist asks you for
0:15directions and your entire body shuts
0:18down.
0:19>> [sighs and gasps]
0:20>> So, let me say the thing nobody has said
0:23to you because this is going to reframe
0:25the next 8 years of your life.
0:28That is not a knowledge problem. You are
0:31not a beginner. You have never been a
0:33beginner. You have had this language
0:35since you were 6 years old and you are
0:37sitting on more of it than you think.
0:39And the reason you cannot use it is not
0:42that something is missing. It is that
0:43nothing has ever been pulled out.
0:46For 30 days, I am going to stop you from
0:48putting anything in and make you pull
0:50everything out. And I am going to show
0:52you the research that explains why that
0:54works and the research that argues
0:56against it because I am not going to
0:58sell you one side of a debate.
1:01Here's the deal. [music]
1:02By minute six, you'll know the real
1:04number of hours it takes and it's going
1:06to hurt. By minute eight, you'll know
1:08why your number is way smaller than
1:10that. Stay.
1:12Two kinds of people should go. If you're
1:14here for a list of fun podcasts to put
1:16on while you cook, go. That's not a
1:18method. That's background noise with
1:20extra steps. And if you're here because
1:22you want someone to tell you that 30
1:23days will get you a C1 certificate, also
1:26go because I'm about to take that apart
1:28on camera with actual government
1:30training data and it's going to
1:31embarrass whoever put it in a thumbnail.
1:34Everybody else, stay because I think
1:36you're in a very different situation
1:38than you've been told you're in and the
1:40next 6 minutes are going to prove it
1:41with public data. Here's what you get.
1:44The real hour count and why almost
1:46nobody survives hearing it by minute
1:48six, why your personal count is a
1:50fraction of that by minute eight, the
1:53one thing an app structurally cannot do
1:55for you by minute 11, and then the whole
1:5830 days, week by week, written out free
2:01starting at minute 14. You can run day
2:04one tomorrow before your shift, and it
2:05costs nothing but being willing to sound
2:07stupid out loud in an empty room.
2:10The United States government has been
2:11teaching diplomats languages since 1947,
2:15and because they're a government, they
2:16measured it. Their numbers are public.
2:18For a Spanish speaker learning English,
2:20or an English speaker learning Spanish,
2:23French, Italian, the easiest tier, they
2:26budget 600 to 750 classroom hours to hit
2:29professional working proficiency. That's
2:32roughly B2 to C1. And that's with a
2:35trained instructor, small groups,
2:37full-time, nothing else in your life.
2:40For Mandarin, Arabic, Japanese, Korean,
2:43it's 2,200 hours, 88 weeks. And that's
2:47the US State Department, not a guy on
2:49the internet. These are people with
2:51unlimited budget and a genuine national
2:54interest in doing it faster, and they
2:56can't.
2:57Now do 30 days. Say you're a machine,
2:59and you find 3 hours a day, every single
3:02day, no shift ever runs over, you never
3:05get sick. That's 90 hours. 90 against
3:08600. You're at 12%. So, no. 30 days does
3:13not make you fluent from zero. And
3:15anybody telling you it does is either
3:17selling something or has never counted.
3:20Now, here's the part I find interesting,
3:22and I want you to notice it because it
3:24tells you something about the whole
3:25industry.
3:26That table is free. It's public. It's
3:29been public for decades, [music] and
3:31essentially nobody making language
3:33content shows it to you because the
3:34moment you see it, the 30-day fluency
3:37promise dies on the table, and so does
3:39the sale.
3:40I'm showing it to you in minute five
3:42instead of burying it in minute 22
3:44because I want you to know that when I
3:46make you a promise later in this video,
3:48you've already seen my arithmetic, and
3:50you can check it.
3:52But here's the move, and this is the
3:54whole video, so stay with me. That
3:57600-hour number is for somebody starting
4:00at zero. You are not starting at zero.
4:03You've had English in school since you
4:05were six. Now, actually do that math
4:07with me, because nobody ever makes you.
4:10Call it 3 hours a week, 35 weeks in a
4:12school year, 12 years of compulsory
4:15education. That's over 1,000 hours
4:17before you even got to university. And
4:20I'm being conservative. And yes, a lot
4:22of those hours were garbage, and a lot
4:24of them were a teacher putting on a film
4:25in December. Fine. Cut it in half. Cut
4:28it by 2/3. You're still sitting on
4:31hundreds of hours. Then you added
4:33subtitles, which is input whether you
4:35were paying attention or not. Then you
4:37added music, and you know the lyrics,
4:39which means they went in. Then you added
4:41years of reading things on the internet
4:43in English without ever once registering
4:45that you were doing it. You've put in
4:47your hours. You put in most of them
4:49before you were 18, and you never once
4:51cashed them in. So, the question is not,
4:54"How do I learn English in 30 days?"
4:56That question is stupid, and it keeps
4:58you buying courses.
4:59>> [music]
4:59>> The real question is the one nobody is
5:01asking you, so I'll ask it. Where did it
5:03all go? You did the hours. Where is it?
5:07And the answer to that is the single
5:08most useful thing I can give you
5:10tonight, and it's coming right now.
5:12There are two vocabularies in your head,
5:14and they are not the same size. There's
5:16the one you recognize when you see it,
5:18and the one you can produce when you
5:19need it. Receptive and productive.
5:22>> [music]
5:22>> And every study that's measured both
5:24finds the same thing. The recognition
5:26one is way bigger, and the gap gets
5:28worse the rarer the word is, which, when
5:31you think about it, is exactly backwards
5:33from what you need, because the rare
5:35words are the ones that make you sound
5:36like an adult instead of a tourist. You
5:38recognize sophisticated English. You
5:41produce beginner English. That's not a
5:43contradiction, and it's not you being
5:45fake. That's the documented shape of how
5:47this is stored, which means you're not
5:50empty. You're a hoarder. You have a
5:52warehouse in there, floor to ceiling and
5:54no loading dock. Everything went in and
5:57nothing has a route out. And now sit
5:59with what that actually means because
6:01it's not comfortable. Every single year
6:03you've spent feeling like you're bad at
6:05English, you've been standing in front
6:07of a full warehouse telling yourself
6:09it's empty. [music] You weren't failing
6:11to learn, you were failing to retrieve,
6:14which is a completely different problem
6:16with a completely different fix and a
6:18completely different timeline. Learning
6:20600 hours takes 600 hours. Opening a
6:24door takes 30 days.
6:26And I want to be careful here because
6:28I'm not telling you the warehouse is
6:29infinite. There are genuinely words you
6:32don't have and structures you've never
6:33seen and those take time, real time,
6:36>> [music]
6:37>> FSI time.
6:38But that is not what's stopping you at a
6:40counter in another country and it's not
6:42what's stopping you from speaking up in
6:44a seminar. What's stopping you there is
6:46a root problem, not a stock problem, and
6:49you have been buying more stock for 8
6:51years.
6:52So now the app. And I want to be precise
6:55here instead of just dunking on it
6:57because the precise version is more
6:58useful to you.
7:00A multiple choice question gives you the
7:02answer and three decoys and asks you to
7:04point at the right one. That's
7:06recognition. Recognition is the thing
7:08you're already good at. It's the shelf
7:10that's already full. So every minute you
7:13spend there is a minute of training the
7:14skill that was never broken.
7:17Meanwhile, the thing that's actually
7:18broken, producing a sentence from
7:20nothing with no options on screen, is
7:23the one thing that interface
7:24structurally cannot ask you to do
7:27because free production can't be auto
7:29graded and auto grading is what makes
7:31the business work. And look, the
7:33business is a fine business. Their
7:35metric is the streak. Streak equals
7:38retention equals revenue and they're
7:40extremely good at it. The problem isn't
7:42that they're evil. The problem is that
7:45their metric and your metric are
7:46different numbers, and you've been
7:48optimizing theirs for 847 days. Here's
7:52the test, and you can run it in 10
7:54seconds. Close your eyes right now and
7:56say a full complex sentence about what
7:59you did yesterday, out loud. Not
8:01translate, produce. If your mouth didn't
8:04move, that's the whole diagnosis, and
8:07I'm about to fix it. The 30 days is on
8:09one page. Four weeks, three rules. One
8:12of the rules is that if you can say it
8:14smoothly, you're not allowed to practice
8:16it, and that rule costs people more than
8:18the rest of the page combined. [music]
8:20It's free, it's in the description, grab
8:23it or don't, the rest of this works
8:25either way. Now, come back here, because
8:27I need to show you the one piece of
8:29research that explains why saying things
8:31out loud badly is more valuable than
8:33reading things silently well.
8:36In 1985, a Canadian researcher named
8:39Merrill Swain was studying French
8:41immersion kids in Canada. These kids had
8:44years of input, massive amounts. Native
8:47teachers, full days, the dream setup.
8:50And their comprehension was excellent,
8:52[music] and their production was not.
8:55And that result broke the model everyone
8:57was using. So, she proposed something
8:59else. Output isn't just the thing that
9:02happens after you learn. Output is a
9:05learning mechanism in its own right, and
9:07she gave it three jobs. One, noticing.
9:11When you try to say something and you
9:13jam, you discover a hole you could not
9:15have discovered by reading, because
9:17reading hands you the words and never
9:19asks you to find them.
9:21Two, hypothesis testing. Every sentence
9:24you produce is a guess about how the
9:26language works, and you only ever find
9:28out it was wrong by saying it. Three,
9:31[music]
9:31metalinguistic. Talking about the
9:34language forces you to hold its
9:35structure consciously.
9:37And I'll give you the other side because
9:39this is still argued, pushed back hard.
9:42He says, "Output is rare. People reach
9:45high proficiency without producing much,
9:47and pushing nervous learners to speak
9:49just raises anxiety and blocks
9:51acquisition."
9:53He's not wrong about the anxiety, but
9:55you've had the input. [music] You've had
9:57it for 14 years. You are not the person
10:00his objection protects. Before the
10:02weeks, the hour because I know what
10:04you've been told. 4:00 in the morning.
10:07I'm not giving you 4:00 in the morning,
10:09and I'll tell you exactly why in 10
10:11seconds. If you close a shift at
10:13midnight, you are not asleep at 9:00. At
10:169:00, you were still working. So, 4:00
10:18a.m. puts you on 3 hours of sleep doing
10:20the hardest cognitive task of your week
10:23every day forever. That's not a
10:25protocol. That's an injury on a
10:27schedule. The principle underneath it is
10:30right, though, and nobody ever separates
10:32the principle from the clock. The
10:34principle is pay yourself before the job
10:37takes the capacity, not after. So, your
10:39block is the 90 minutes before your
10:42first obligation of the day, whatever
10:44time that lands. If you start at 7:00,
10:46yeah, that's early, and it's rough. If
10:49you close at midnight and start at 4:00
10:50in the afternoon, your block is 10:00 in
10:53the [music] morning, and you've been
10:54throwing that away for years while
10:56watching videos about 4:00 a.m. Write
10:58the actual clock time down. Same time
11:01every day. It exists because you're not
11:04deciding this 40 times a week. People
11:06don't fail at this because the work is
11:08hard. They fail because they put the
11:10decision on themselves every single
11:13morning, and eventually a morning comes
11:15where they lose it, and then they lose
11:17five more. The block isn't a goal. It's
11:20a thing that already exists on paper so
11:23that a tired version of you doesn't get
11:25a vote. Week one. [music]
11:27The brief I was given for this video
11:28said 500 words and 100 verbs conjugated
11:32in every tense. I'm not giving you that,
11:34and here's the reason. Isolated words
11:37are stored the way you already store
11:38everything, as recognition. So, you'd be
11:41filling the shelf that's already full.
11:43Instead, 100 sentences, full ones,
11:47yours, not from a [music] list, from
11:49your actual life, which means roughly 25
11:52a day for 4 days, and then you stop
11:54adding. Sentences you would actually
11:56need. Explaining what you study,
11:59explaining what you do at work,
12:01disagreeing with someone politely,
12:03asking for clarification without
12:04sounding like a textbook, saying you
12:07don't know. And the reason it's
12:08sentences and not words is that a word
12:11on its own forces you to build the
12:13structure around it, live, under
12:15pressure, which is precisely the
12:17operation that fails. A sentence already
12:20contains its own structure. You're not
12:22memorizing vocabulary, you're installing
12:24prefabricated roots. And then, the part
12:27that makes it work and that everybody
12:29skips. You say each one out loud until
12:32it comes out without assembling it. Not
12:34until you understand it,
12:35>> [music]
12:35>> until it's automatic, which is a
12:37completely different finish line, and
12:39it's the one nobody crosses.
12:41>> [music]
12:41>> Fluency out in the world is mostly
12:44chunks you don't build in real time. A
12:47hundred of them is a startling amount of
12:49coverage, and it's the first week you
12:51will have ever finished with something
12:52in your mouth instead of something in
12:54your notes. Week two, and this is where
12:57your job stops being the obstacle.
12:59There's a real line of research on
13:01what's called private speech, the
13:03talking you do to yourself silently. And
13:05in second language learners, it
13:07functions as rehearsal. Low stakes, no
13:09listener, no judgment, which is exactly
13:12what your nervous system needs before it
13:14will risk a real conversation. You have
13:178 hours a day of work your body does on
13:19autopilot, carrying, wiping, walking,
13:22stacking. Your hands are busy and your
13:24inner voice is completely free. And
13:27right now, it's running in Spanish
13:29narrating nothing. So, you switch it.
13:31You narrate the room in English. The
13:33table in the corner just asked for the
13:35bill. I'm going to need a tray, and I'm
13:37going to need to do this in one trip.
13:39That guy has been nursing the same beer
13:41for 40 minutes. That's it. That's the
13:44technique. And I want to correct the
13:47version you've heard, which says ban
13:49your native language entirely. You
13:51can't. That's not a thing a brain does.
13:54And setting an impossible rule just
13:56guarantees you break it on day three and
13:58quit on day four. You're not deleting
14:01Spanish. You're claiming dead airtime.
14:04Eight hours of free rehearsal that you
14:06were throwing out with the coffee
14:07grounds.
14:09Week three, and this is the one that
14:11does 90% of the work and that nobody is
14:15willing to do.
14:16Every day, one voice memo. Five minutes.
14:19No stopping, no restarting, no notes, no
14:23script.
14:23>> [music]
14:24>> One topic, and it has to be abstract,
14:26not what you had for breakfast. Whether
14:29a technology should exist, whether a
14:31rule at your job makes sense, something
14:33you'd struggle to say well in Spanish.
14:36And you don't stop when you jam. You
14:38stay in the jam, and you push through it
14:40ugly, because the jam is the entire
14:43point. That's Swaim's noticing function
14:45happening live in your mouth, [music]
14:48and it's the only place it can happen.
14:50And five minutes is not arbitrary. Under
14:53about two minutes, you can coast on
14:55prepared phrases and never hit a wall.
14:57Somewhere past three, you run out of the
14:59stuff you already had ready, and you're
15:01forced to build live. And that's the
15:03only part that's actually training
15:05anything. The first two minutes are a
15:07warm-up. The last three are the lesson.
15:10Then you listen back, which is horrible,
15:13and it's the part everyone skips. And
15:15skipping it turns this into a diary. You
15:18listen, and you write down every single
15:20thing that broke. [music] Then you fix
15:22only those. Not the chapter, not the
15:25unit, the specific broken things from
15:28your own mouth in your own voice.
15:3030 of those memos is 30 hours of pushed
15:33production and roughly 400 personally
15:36diagnosed errors. Nobody in your class
15:39has done that. Nobody in your class has
15:41done one.
15:42That notebook has a name in Korea. O dam
15:45note to. O dap note to.
15:47The wrong answer notebook. And it's not
15:49a study aid over there. It's the
15:51default. Three columns. What you were
15:54trying to say, what actually came out,
15:57what it should have been.
15:58And the third column you only fill in
16:00after you've sat in the discomfort of
16:02the second one because looking it up
16:04immediately kills the whole mechanism.
16:06>> [music]
16:06>> The discomfort is the encoding. If you
16:09resolve it in half a second, your brain
16:11correctly concludes that nothing
16:13important happened and files it nowhere.
16:15Sit in it for 20 seconds first. It feels
16:18like wasting time and it is the opposite
16:21of wasting time.
16:22That notebook is the only thing you
16:24reread. Not the textbook, not your old
16:26notes from school, not a grammar app. 20
16:29minutes in your pocket, out at the bus
16:31stop, in the break room, in the 10
16:33minutes before your shift starts. And
16:35after 30 days, that notebook is a
16:37complete personalized map of exactly
16:40where your English breaks, written by
16:42the only person who could possibly have
16:44written it. There is no course on Earth
16:47you can buy that produces that document
16:49because it's made of your specific
16:51failures and nobody sells those. Week
16:54four. Two things and then you're done.
16:58One, the monolingual day. Pick one day,
17:01ideally a day off, and for that entire
17:04day you don't read, write, speak, watch,
17:07or think in Spanish on purpose.
17:10Phone in English, music in English, the
17:13people you can get away with it with in
17:15English.
17:16It will be exhausting by 2:00 in the
17:18afternoon, and that exhaustion is the
17:20actual result. It's not a test, it's a
17:23measurement of how much friction is
17:25still in there. And here's the useful
17:27part. Notice what you reached for
17:29Spanish to do. Not the general
17:32tiredness, the specific moments. It'll
17:35be something narrow and weirdly
17:37consistent. Like, you can handle
17:39anything until you have to be funny, or
17:41until somebody interrupts you. That's
17:43your next 30 days, [music] and it just
17:46told you itself. Two, the recording. 15
17:49minutes on camera on a technical topic
17:52in your field, as if you were presenting
17:54it. One take. You will hate it. You will
17:57hate watching it more. And then you put
18:00it next to day one, because this is why
18:02I had you record from the first day, and
18:04the gap between those two files is going
18:06to be the only evidence you'll ever have
18:09that's immune to a bad mood. On day 28,
18:12you will not feel different. Nobody
18:14feels different. The file is going to
18:16tell you something your feelings are not
18:18qualified to tell you.
18:21Now listen, because here's where I stop
18:23pushing. First, you're not taking this
18:26out of your sleep. Everything you
18:28drilled today gets filed while you're
18:30unconscious, and language is one of the
18:32most sleep dependent things your brain
18:34does. Cut the night and you've studied
18:37and then deleted it on purpose while
18:39feeling disciplined. If the only place
18:42the block fits is inside your sleep, the
18:44block is in the wrong place. So, we move
18:47the block. Second, and I need to be
18:50straight with you. 30 days of this does
18:52not get you a certificate. A C1 exam is
18:55a separate skill with its own format,
18:57its own timing, its own tricks, and you
19:00prepare for it separately. What 30 days
19:03buys you is the thing the certificate is
19:05supposed to represent, and those are not
19:07the same object. And I'm not going to
19:09blur them to make this video sound
19:11better. And third, Krashen's objection
19:14about anxiety is real. If speaking makes
19:17you physically panic, if your chest goes
19:19tight and you shut down, don't start
19:21with a person. Start with the voice
19:23memo, alone, [music] in a room where
19:26nobody can hear it and you can delete
19:28it. And if the shutdown is bigger than
19:30language, if it's been months and
19:32nothing lifts, talk to a doctor or your
19:34student support service. Nothing in this
19:37video reaches that, and I'd rather lose
19:39the ending than pretend it does. So, let
19:41me be exact about what you get, because
19:44vague promises are how this entire
19:46industry works, and I'd rather give you
19:48something smaller that's true.
19:50>> [music]
19:50>> In 30 days, you don't become fluent. You
19:53become someone who can produce. Those
19:55sound similar, and they're not. Here's
19:57the concrete version. You'll be able to
19:59hold 5 minutes on a difficult topic
20:02without switching languages. You'll have
20:04100 sentences that come out without
20:06assembly. You'll have a map of exactly
20:09where you break in your handwriting. And
20:11the stall before you open your mouth,
20:13the one that's 3 seconds long and feels
20:15like 3 years, gets measurably shorter,
20:18because the thing causing it was never
20:20missing knowledge, it was a retrieval
20:22path that had never been used. That's
20:25it. That's the list. And notice that
20:27every item on it is a thing you can
20:29verify yourself, tonight, [music] with a
20:31timer, which is not an accident. I'm
20:34deliberately not promising you a
20:36feeling, because feelings about your own
20:38language are the least reliable
20:40instrument you own.
20:41>> [music]
20:41>> Everybody who's actually good thinks
20:43they're bad, and the one guy who thinks
20:45he's great is unlistenable. And now,
20:47compare it against what you actually
20:49have after 847 days of streaks, because
20:53that comparison is the entire reason I
20:56made this video. One of those two things
20:58is a door. The other one is a hobby with
21:01a notification. I want to say the plain
21:04version of this, because the dramatic
21:06version wouldn't be true. I don't think
21:09people fail at languages because they're
21:11lazy. I think people fail at languages
21:14because the whole thing is set up so you
21:16never have to find out what you don't
21:18know. Reading is comfortable because the
21:21words are already there. Watching is
21:23comfortable because the meaning is
21:25carried. Apps are comfortable because
21:27the answer is one of four. All three of
21:30those let you spend years accumulating
21:32without ever once measuring. And
21:35accumulating feels like progress because
21:37it is progress.
21:38>> [music]
21:39>> Just not the kind you need. The only
21:41uncomfortable thing in the entire field
21:44is producing a sentence from nothing
21:46with nobody helping you.
21:48>> [music]
21:48>> And that happens to be the only thing
21:50that tells you where you actually are.
21:52So, I think the real skill isn't
21:54discipline. It's being willing to get a
21:57bad measurement. Most people would
21:59rather have an unknown number than a low
22:01one. And that preference costs them
22:03about a decade. You can have a low
22:05number tomorrow morning. 5 minutes alone
22:09into a phone. It will be a bad recording
22:12and it will be the first real data point
22:14you've had since you were 6 years old.
22:16And everything after that is just
22:18repeating it until the number moves.
22:21Thanks for sitting through 30 minutes of
22:22someone telling you that the thing you
22:24bought doesn't work and the thing that
22:26does is uncomfortable and free.
22:28I know which of those gets more views.
22:31One thing before I go and I'm saying it
22:32twice on purpose. If it's been months
22:35and nothing lifts, talk to a doctor or
22:37your student support service. Nothing in
22:39this video reaches that and I'd rather
22:41lose the ending than pretend it does.
22:43>> [music]
22:43>> Two things and we're done. One. Tonight,
22:47not tomorrow, tonight. Open your voice
22:49recorder, hit record and talk for 5
22:51minutes about something you care about.
22:53In English with no notes and do not stop
22:56when you jam. Do not listen to it. Just
22:58save it and name it day one. That file
23:01is the before photo and you only get one
23:03chance to take it and it's tonight. Then
23:05tomorrow in your 90 minutes, you start
23:07the 100 sentences. The page that lays
23:10out all four weeks is free in the
23:11[music] description. Two, and then I'll
23:14stop. Everything I've given you tonight
23:16is free and you can run it alone
23:17starting in about four minutes. The
23:19system was never the hard part. The hard
23:21part is recording memo 19 alone after a
23:24shift when you sound bad and nobody on
23:26earth would know if you skipped it.
23:28That's the only reason Top Students
23:30Society exists. One room, fixed hours,
23:33the same four weeks with people in it so
23:35that showing up isn't a decision you
23:37have to win 30 times in a row. We open
23:39October 20th live, 8:00 p.m. Spain.
23:42Comment l y n a p z e and I'll send you
23:45the page and the link. [music] And to be
23:47very clear because you've earned it
23:49after 30 minutes, not commenting
23:51excludes you from nothing. The page is
23:53free either way and anybody who tells
23:55you a comment is a selection process is
23:57managing you. Now go record five minutes
23:59of bad English. That's the whole
24:01assignment.

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