A Month For FASTING | Part 2

Technical problems. Technical problems. We're back. We're back. We're back, back, back. Okay, just a minute. Sorry. I don't know what happened. My computer crashed. And let people rejoin. I'm not sure if it was my computer or a YouTube problem. Okay, hello again. Hello again. Just waiting for just a second. Let people rejoin again. Okay, it looks like people are rejoining. Okay, let's keep going. So what was I saying? Be playful. I think I was talking about right, with your. With your language, with English. Relax and enjoy it and you'll get better results. Okay, I'll take a couple of comments. Oh, good. Paulika88. Is it Paulista or Palika? I'm not sure about my C's. All right. Anyway, welcome back. I'll take maybe a couple more questions and then time for me to go. Okay, looks like. So I don't know what happened. Maybe YouTube had an error and now it's back. So we'll go for a few more minutes and then we'll be done. Hello from Brazil says Carlos Eduardo. Hello to Brazil. Greetings from Poland says Palika. Greetings. Yeah, Wally, we lost the connection, but we're back. Margarita comments were turned off. Yeah, that's because there was a YouTube error. But now we're back. So good to see you, Margarita. Game Pro says, what's better, British or American English? I get this question all the time. Of course American English is better, obviously. All right, here we go. Looks like. Okay, we got everyone joining back. Now, suddenly, how to avoid mistakes in writing? Ask. I can. There's no way to avoid mistakes in writing. That's the truth. You'll never avoid them. You're always going to make mistakes. So first time you write something, this is called the first draft, right? So your first writing, it doesn't matter. Is it an essay, is it a book, is it a story, is it a letter, blog post? Doesn't matter what it is. You're going to make mistakes, probably if it's longer, if it's not super short, you probably are going to make some mistakes with grammar or spelling or whatever. So the question is, how do you avoid the mistakes in the final draft? Right. It means you write something first. It's the first draft. Don't publish it, don't give it to your teacher. This is when you have to go back then and reread it again. If you can find another person to help you and have them read it and find the mistakes and then correct them and then write it again a second time or edit it again and then you should at least go back a third time and read it again, looking for mistakes and ask another person, right? This is, this is the way to do it. This is how you make your writing better, is by writing the same thing several times and then going back and checking for mistakes and asking someone else to check for mistakes and help you. And, you know, this is why even professional writers, right? Professional writers do this. Also. Professional writers, and I mean professional people who get paid millions of dollars for books, they make mistakes. They make grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, all kinds of mistakes. They all do, right? Like, let's say, what's his name? Martin. George Martin. The guy wrote Game of Thrones still, right? He obviously made millions of dollars. He makes mistakes. I guarantee his first draft, his first writing. When he writes a ch for Game of Thrones, it has a lot of mistakes. But he has an editor, right? All. All writers have editors. So he sends it to the editor, and the editor goes and finds a mistake, sends it back to George and says, oh, George, look. Look at these. I think these. You might want to change these things. And then George goes back and he changes them. And of course, he also probably goes and looks himself. He. He finishes a chapter, he waits a few days. He. Then he goes and reads, reads it. He finds mistakes, he corrects them. He sends it to the editor. So that's how you get a. Your writing to look really, really good. It's so even native speakers do this. Maybe my next language challenge will be Japanese. All those beautiful blossoming cherries. Great. Awesome. How Ra says, do you play any musical instruments? I don't. I've played around with a few, but I've never seriously done any musical instruments. I played around with the bass guitar for a while when I was a kid. I did trumpet, but never, never got. Yeah, Muhammad says you always have the same answer about American or British English. Funny. Muhammad Abdal Cream. Yeah, obviously I'm joking there. Neither one's better, but I'm American, so of course I'll say American. Do Americans. Okay, this is. Bashir in says, do Americans struggle understanding each other's accents? Not so much. Other Americans, no. I can understand New Yorkers and Boston and I don't know, maybe there are some that I might struggle with a little. But it's more foreign accents that are harder. By foreign, I mean, for example, a deep Scottish accent. Probably. For me, the Scottish one is one of the more difficult ones for someone who's really, really, really got a strong, strong, strong Scottish accent. There are probably several Scottish accents. I don't know enough about them to tell you. I'm sure Scots will tell you that there's probably different accents for different parts of Scotland. But, but if it's very strong. Yeah, it can be a little tough for me. Yes, for sure. So don't feel bad if you have trouble with different accents. Like if you have trouble with a New York accent, for example. That's, that's, it's pretty normal. If you listen to enough New Yorkers, you'll get used to it. If you live in New York, you'll definitely get used to it or even stay in New York for a while. How do I break my fast? Asks, whoops, where is it? What do you eat after breakfast? Asks, was it Martha? What do you. After breakfasting? So when I break my fast, I just break. If I'm dry fasting, I break it with water. Usually I add potassium and a little salt to it. That's the first thing I do. And now I've been trying specifically to avoid sugar and carbs. Part of my eating and fasting right now. So while like, you could break a fast with dates or something, it's perfectly fine. But I'm not doing that because I don't want the sugar. So I'll have, I don't know, I'll just have like a little bit of fish or like today I broke my fast with a hamburger, but only after drinking at first. I, if I'm dry fasting first, I get hydrated first, right. And then, and just not. Don't eat too much suddenly. That's kind of the key thing. So how to break your fast, it depends on your goals. I guess some people will break fast with like Filanov recommends breaking a fast with something like yogurt, water and yogurt. Muslims, a lot of Muslims break their Ramana fast with dates, figs, anything like that. Kind of like a dried, dried fruits would be probably pretty good. You could do just, you know, I think it's more about the amount. Don't hit your body with something really heavy and a huge amount of food suddenly. Oh, yes. I have no problems understanding American English at all. But British is another story reason I have spent most of my hours listening to American material. Right. And that's exactly right. So if you focus on British, British, British, British, British all the time, you might struggle with American speakers some. Right. Because you've become, you become very used to that accent. So that's the good news is it's not hard to, you know, English is English in general. So if you learn American English and then you decide to go to England or you want to focus on British English, it won't take you long to learn that accent. They use some words differently than we do and they have a different accent, obviously, but it's not, it won't be that hard. It's not. You already know English. Okay. Then you just got to get used to the accent. Maybe you need a couple months so it's, it's not too tough. And you can do the opposite too. If you're focusing on British English, then you want to learn American. It's not too hard. You just spend maybe two months focusing only on American English. You'll get used to the accent. You already know most of the grammar, you already know most of the vocab. So you just got to get used to the accent and a few different words. Yeah. Just breathe. Journey says, I break my fast with fresh fruits or a smoothie. Yeah, fresh fruits, really easy to digest. So fruit's a good one. A little smoothie. Yeah. All these are great. Bovardius Saga says, are you fasting now? I'm doing partial fast during the week and on the weekend I'm going to do. We'll see how long it goes. This coming Sunday, I will do at least a 24 hour dry fast. Again. I said, like I said, I'm more focused on consistency this time, so I'm not trying to push myself too too long. I'm gonna go very gradually, so we'll see. I'll try 24 hours. If I'm still feeling pretty good, maybe I'll go 30 or 40 hours for my weekend dry fast. And then during the week I'll just do, you know, like a half day dry fast. And breaking fast with water. Zohar says, actually that is the best if you're doing dry fasting. If you're doing wet fasting, you're drinking water all the time, so you don't need to worry about it. But if you're doing dry fasting, so no drinking. Also, definitely water is the first thing. Okay. Before you eat, even drink water. And I recommend put a little bit of potassium and you could put some baking soda in it. It's good for your kidneys. So baking soda and potassium, you add a little bit of that to your water and drink, drink water first, maybe for an hour, just drink water only and then take the fruit or something else. Basher says, the first time I listened to a Scottish man speaking, it took me a while to realize he was speaking English. Yeah, I've had that experience. I'VE watched a few videos of Scots and I'm kind of, I mean, I'm talking really a light Scottish accent is no problem for me. But there are certain probably, you know, very particular cities or even neighborhoods where it's super, super heavy and thick and lots of slang, and then it can be a little hard for me to understand. I've had that experience before. Oh, cool. Satyendra Pandey says, I followed your method of learning English and now I speak fluent English. Congratulations. Awesome. Okay, I think we're about done. Cool. Pedro. Enrique says, AJ I'm from Brazil. I watched one of your videos off your channel last year. Changed my life in order to learn English. Thanks for all your hard work and have a nice week. Thank you, Pedro. Very nice. I'm glad. Very. Keep on going. Keep going. Interesting. Martin Wavel says, I'm listening to your show while working. I'm at an altitude of 70 meters on a tower crane. So he's working on a crane, right? A big machine that's very tall, 70 meters up high. Now I get eight hours of listening time. Thank you, AJ. That's cool. That's great. Awesome. How are my children's health? Very good. Doing great. The kids are doing fantastic. Thanks for asking. Says Manebrati Ravindran has her daughter's health. It's my daughter and my son both doing very well now. Yeah, Great. I'm having a lot of fun with the babies. They're not quite babies now, they're toddlers, but it's a really fun age. I'm enjoying them a lot now. They're really fun because they're, you know, they're, they're talking some now and, you know, running around and very active. And I find this age to be really quite enjoyable. As a dad. I like the baby time. I like the little baby time too. They're so cute and they're little. You carry them around. I would carry them everywhere, but, you know, they can't talk. Mostly they just cry and eat, play a little bit. But at this age now they're really much more active. So I, I'm having a great time with them. They're very cute, very funny. Olga Sergevina says, I'm so glad to see you. I'm doing the 365 day challenge of yours, being super excited about that. Awesome. So, yeah, let's just, let's go here. Let's just review very quickly. I started my. So the challenge is 365 days in a row of English. Never miss a day or anything. I'm doing Jiu Jitsu. So I started in April. I started April 1st. Let's just hit to make it easy. And I did all of April. I did Jiu Jitsu every single day. Did not miss a day. Is May 5th here? I've done Jiu Jitsu every day this month so far. I just. So what I do is on a calendar. I just put it on account. See if I can turn this. As you can see, the calendar. Mmm. There's my calendar. And you might see there's little numbers there. I have a little code system where I'm practicing different things on different days. So. I won't go into the details of Jiu Jitsu, but basically I'll practice different techniques or different position each day. So I'll write down a code. You could do that with lessons if you wanted to. If you want to just play around with the lessons. Let's say you were doing my Power English course. You could choose four lessons and alternate them. So on one day, you do lesson one, you write one on your calendar and circle it. And the next day you do lesson two, three, four. Then what do you do? Go back to one again, repeat, one, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. 1, 2, 3, 4. You could do that for a whole month. So you're still getting the repetition, but it's not the same exact. It's not just one lesson. It's four lessons you're repeating and you're rotating. A little more variety. That. That's also a great system. It's what I'm doing with Jiu Jitsu. So because I was for. I started by trying to do one thing only. So in Jiu Jitsu, I was trying to work escapes, right? There's a. There are things in Jiu Jitsu called escapes. You try to get some guys on top of you and you try to get out. So that. That was okay. But I started getting bored with it. I started like every day. Escapes, escapes, escapes, escapes, escapes. And I. After about a week, I thought, I'm tired of just doing escapes only because there's other parts of Jiu Jitsu I want that I like that are fun. And this is where I said I was getting too serious, right? Escapes are so important. But it's like, I'm not enjoying this so much. So I thought, you know, I'm going to choose my, like 4 or 5 favorite or most important or the things I want to work on different positions. And I'm just going to rotate. So I'll do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4th, 5, 6, 1. So I'm repeating each one like that, kind of a rotation repeating. So I'm repeating the same. For me, it's actually, let's see, it's four. It's four, four different things. So I repeat those four kind of topics. So I'll do 1, 2, 3, 4. And then the next day I go back to 1. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, 4 dot 1. 1, 2, 3,. 4. 1, 2, 3, four. So I don't get bored with just one. And I still get a lot of repetition. It works really well. So you could do this with your lessons. You could do lesson 1, 2, 3, 4, then back to 1 again. 1, 2, 3, 4. 1, 2, 3, four. 1, 2, 3, Four. You could do that for two months if you wanted to. And it's good variety and you still get a lot of repetition that way. So try it around. Just play again. Play with it. There's not an exact formula. There's not an exact rule. You, you play around and find what you enjoy, what works for you. Vladislav Altukoff says, I really like your podcast and lessons. Thanks. I begin to understand English. You're the best teacher I ever met. Thank you very much. And greetings from Russia. And greetings to Russia. Fabio says, during fasting, do you drink something? I don't. I do dry fasting. No drinking. If you do, if you drink. Some people, if you want to drink, it's called a water fast. So just drink water. But like I in the beginning the show, go watch the recording. If you just join now, because when I started today, I talked a lot about dry fasting. Why I like it. Ah. Belmati Chan says Kathmandu, Nepal loves you. I love Kathmandu Nepal. It's a great city. I love it. I've been there several times. Really, really like Kathmandu. Kathmandu is a very cool place. Dawood Ibrahim says, can I find a teacher like you for learning Arabic? I learned English from you. Your method's awesome. I always get these questions. I sort of, I don't, I don't know anyone using my methods for Arabic. But maybe so on gab. If you know, if you know like an effortless Arabic teacher somewhere, someone who's uses like the story method and natural methods to teach Arabic, please put it on my gab and then other people can find it. So people have asked me about French and we do. We have someone in our own, in our group that teaches French, Spanish. I've always recommended my friend Oscar. Any other languages? You can always go on Lingq. That's That's a good one for. Yeah, Dawood, actually. There you go. I'm going to give you a recommendation link. L I N G Q link is Steve Kaufman's website. He's. I know he's got Arabic because he's learning Arabic himself, so. Or he's already learned it. I don't know if he's done now, but. But I know he was learning Arabic, so I know Arabic is on the site, so get on lingq and try Arabic there. And then you can also get on my gab. Maybe some people have other suggestions too. Oh, cool. Fabio Santa Rosa says this is my day 28 for the 365 challenge. Awesome. So good. Yeah, you can start anytime. You can start today if you want. Just count the days. So I'm on day. Let's see what. April had 30 days, so I'm on day 35 of my challenge. Fabio's on day 28. Great. Yeah, it's kind of cool, actually. You could track it like that. Just track the total number of days in a row you're doing. Baby's crying. Yeah, there's a hungry baby. Okay, I think I'm gonna go now. I'm gonna go help with the babies. Help get the baby back to bed now. Here. My wife is in there helping the baby, but I'll go check on them in a minute. It was really great talking to you all again. I've got my cameras now. Got my lights. I'm back. We're in our new apartment, so I'll be back with more shows. I will do a live seminar, video seminar for VIP members only. Also, soon. I'll announce that soon. So, as always, join my VIP program@ortlessenglishclub.com. lots of love to you all. Happy fasting and keep going with your 365 challenge. I'll see you next time. Bye for now. It.