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watch this video and learn how much grammar and vocabulary you need to learn

in order to become a fluent speaker

hey friends teacher Prix here to help you talk to

anyone anywhere anytime in English hey thanks for joining me on another video

and if it's your first time here thank you so much I hope you enjoy this

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ebook so check it out and become part of this exclusive email list where I share

very exclusive tips with you but you know one of you guys asked me this

question teacher Prix how much grammar and

vocabulary do I need to learn in order to become a fluent speaker hmm what do

you think and that's why I decided to make this video because the truth is

that many of you guys have this question how much grammar do I need to learn and

how much vocabulary do I need to learn today if you go to a book shop well you

don't even need to go to a book shop today if you go online on Amazon or many

other websites you will find hundreds of books today on Facebook communities I'm

always checking English pages and communities and there are so many

questions from you guys of what's the best English book what's the best course

book by the way I have some articles about that on my blog so check it out

but it's interesting because you guys are always trying to quantify how much

vocabulary you need how much grammar you need and the truth is that the more you

focus on how much you need to learn, the harder it gets and the further the

more distant the further you get from English fluency because the point is not

how much the point is how you're going to use them if you follow my videos if

you follow my channel you know that I am always talking about context in

conversations context in everything you learn and there is a reason why I'm

always repeating this over and over and over because if you focus on quantity on

how much vocabulary you know you may not be a good English speaker and why do I

say that well I have many students who have very good grammar I give them

exercises and they get all the answers correct they do their homework and it's

perfect but when they are going to speak it's not why because it doesn't matter

how much grammar you know it doesn't matter how much vocabulary you know when

you are speaking you may not be able to use that why because the way you

study grammar and vocabulary and the way you speak are disconnected and that's

why you are not feeling that all the grammar you know and all the vocabulary

you know are being used efficiently so when I'm when I'm talking to my students

when I'm talking to my clients I don't like them to focus on how many new words

they learn on how many grammar lessons they study because that's not gonna be

helpful as a matter of fact you need very basic grammar to become a good

communicator to become a fluent communicator in my opinion fluency is

being able to talk about many different kinds of subjects being a flexible

speaker that has a reasonable amount of vocabulary and this reasonable amount of

vocabulary is enough to help you communicate in different kinds of

contexts in different kinds of situations that's why knowing how much

doesn't matter now what do you need to focus on what are you learning this

grammar for oh, Priscila, that's obvious I'm learning because I want to become a

better speaker wrong why are you learning this grammar point

why are you learning this vocabulary point because someone told you it was

important because you believe it is important see that's where you need to

fix that's where you need to reanalyze and make sure to understand that the

main reason why you should learn it you shouldn't learn something just because

it's important you should learn something because you're gonna use it

okay of course Priscilla I know I'm gonna use

it hmm I got a question for you what are you going to use it for Priscilla to

speak in conversations everyday conversations see the more general you

are the more difficult it is for your brain to understand that subject is

important so what do you need to do what conversations can I use this for in what

conversations can I use this grammar point in what conversations can I use

this vocabulary point that's why context is so important if

you watch my videos you see that I'm always giving you some conversation

subjects weekend, talking to the doctor checking in at the airport going through

customs and security let's see what else talking about your daily routine likes

and dislikes about food about personality why there's a purpose I am

preparing you to use those grammar points to use those vocabulary lessons

in contextualized conversation because it's easier for your brain to make

associations and remember those words and remember those grammar lesson

because if you just open a grammar book and start studying that's it they're

just words you're not giving them meaning you're not giving them

importance all right so you don't need much as I said you don't need much

grammar to become a fluent speaker the ugly truth is that many times many

students many English learners do not master basic grammar points such a

simple present simple past future if you don't know these three guys you can't

talk it would be difficult for you to communicate if you don't master them

what I always tell my students is lack of practice if you're making continuous

mistakes in such grammar points like present past and future it's because

you're not practicing enough and the only way to improve that is by

practicing and you don't need to only practice by speaking you can practice by

writing by reading by listening by watching by interacting with that

grammar point not only sitting down and doing exercises or speaking to someone

there are other ways to become a better communicator a better English speaker

and it's not just speaking especially if you are studying alone instead of trying

to understand how much vocabulary or how much grammar you need focus on what

conversations do I want to master I want to be able to talk about DNA I want to

be able to talk about genetics or I want to be able to talk about sports cars I

want to be able to talk about my job I want to be able to talk about nature and

flowers and biology so what exactly do you want to talk about and that's a good

way to start to help you improve your vocabulary and believe me when you do

that you don't improve only at the subject you want to improve but so many

other aspects of the language improve as well because you are focusing you are

being strategic about how and what you study but more importantly your brain

has a reason has a why why you should learn what you're learning not just

because it's important or because someone told you so but because you want

to use this for some very specific conversation subject I hope you enjoyed

this video make sure to sign up for my newsletter ok and download my ebook

thank you so much and I'll see you next time bye

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Fox News Tried To Attack Medicare For All, Instead Showed How Much People Love It - Duration: 3:56.

Right-wingers are doing absolutely everything possible to try to discredit the growing push

for a Medicare for all type healthcare system here in the United States.

We all know that earlier this week the Koch brothers, a group that they fund, put out

a study that showed that, wow, this thing was going to have a 32.6 trillion dollar price

tag over the next 10 years.

And the same study admitted that that's actually two trillion dollars less than what we already

pay now as a country.

So, their own study showed that this would save us money.

So, knowing that and everybody jumped on that, the Koch brothers looked ridiculous.

Bernie Sanders actually thanked them for putting it out and showing that it saved us money.

Fox News tried to get people back on the side of Medicare for all is evil, so they put out

a poll on Twitter, in which they got more than 32,000 people to respond.

Here is what the question says, "Bernie Sanders' Medicare for all bill, estimated to cost 32.6

trillion, new study says.

Would the benefits outweigh the costs?"

73% of the more than 32,000 people who responded to this said yes, the benefits outweigh the

costs.

So Fox News, trying to discredit this and put out that already discredited information,

got 73%, nearly three quarters of their respondents to say, "Yeah, that's actually worth it, we

would be willing to do that."

So even Fox News can't help but make the case that Medicare for all is not only what the

people want, but they don't even care about the price tag, when you don't include the

fact that it's actually going to save us money and be cheaper in the long run.

They just want it.

This is a program that they support regardless of the cost, and at this point again, we know

that we will end up saving money.

Republicans and Democrats actually support this kind of plan.

And this isn't to say that everybody's going to have federally mandated government health

insurance.

Medicare is an optional program if you want to do it.

The only people who could suffer under such a plan would be insurance company executives,

and of course Big Pharma executives, because part of the thing with this would be that

drug companies would have to lower their prices here in the United States.

If you wanted to have a private plan with Blue Cross or Aetna or Cigna or whoever, you

could still go and buy that plan.

No problem with that.

But, if you wanted the cheaper option, the federal government option, the Medicare for

all, you could also do that.

This is all about expanding choice in this country, the exact opposite of communism or

socialism, like Republicans are trying to scare us with, and most people know that on

both sides of the aisle.

Progressive policies like a Medicare for all type plan are hugely popular when you do not

associate them with any political party.

They're popular among Republicans, they're popular among Democrats, and that's what's

happened with Medicare for all.

Since the Democrats refused to jump on it when Bernie was pushing it, it has become

disassociated from the Democratic Party, and now it's just a plan that most people want

regardless of party affiliation.

It's going to save us money and, so far, every single time that these Republican pundits,

networks, and think tanks have tried to debunk it and tell us how horrible it is, they have

ended up telling us that this is almost at this point, inevitable for this country because

it's what the people want.

For more infomation >> Fox News Tried To Attack Medicare For All, Instead Showed How Much People Love It - Duration: 3:56.

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How much money is Thomas Markle worth? - Duration: 3:24.

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How to smile without looking like a creep - Duration: 2:50.

How much of your teeth should you show when you smile?

How wide should your grin be, and what if it's crooked?

Using a variety of computer-animated faces, researchers from the University of Minnesota

have done their best to isolate the traits of a winning smile.

It's no laughing matter.

For people with paralysis or other medical conditions, being physically unable to smile

can cause communication problems, anxiety, and depression.

This study could help doctors who perform facial reanimation surgery and rehabilitation—

understanding the characteristics of a great smile will help us to make sure

a grin doesn't look like a grimace.

The researchers had an artist create 27 different smiles on a computer-animated face,

varying the smile's angle, width, toothiness, and degree of crookedness on each face.

802 people at the Minnesota State Fair then rated each one based on

its effectiveness, genuineness, pleasantness, and the emotion expressed.

One quick note!

Facial reconstruction techniques are pretty limited when it comes to restoring movement

around the eyes.

To acknowledge that, the scientists never changed or crinkled the model's eyes,

even as its smile got bigger.

So if you have full control of your facial muscles, your giant grin is probably still charming.

Ok, here's what the researchers found:

Bigger isn't always better.

Smiles with a low to medium width tended to get better ratings.

Big smiles were rated worst when combined with a high angle (or upturn) and a lot of teeth.

In fact, smiles with a medium upturn tended to be more popular in general.

More V-shaped smiles creeped people out.

But how much of your teeth should you show?

Just a little, or maybe none at all.

Open-mouth smiles can easily be mistaken for a sign of fear or contempt—

the two lowest rated smiles were both pretty toothy.

And don't be afraid of a little asymmetry.

A slight crookedness is actually better than none—it probably makes people feel like

the smile is more genuine.

But if the left and right sides of the mouth weren't synced within 125 milliseconds,

people started to get weirded out.

Say cheese.

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How much money is enough? | Vicki Robin - Duration: 5:43.

We talk about the old roadmap for money, and the old roadmap was born really out of the

industrial revolution.

It was born out of the sense of the "wild west," of "anything is possible," of

manifest destiny, of American exceptionalism, whatever you want to say.

Or you can go back even further to capitalism itself.

But the roadmap is: "growth is good, more is better, whoever dies with the most toys

wins."

It's a materialist roadmap, and the part of the roadmap is not only that; it's an

empty world.

"Uh oh, there were people here before the white people came.

And, you know animals.

There was already a living mature society—" "No, no, no.

It was empty."

And then the other part of it is that one of the essential ingredients of it that still

people, even if intellectually they understand it they do not get it, is that in that roadmap

the economy can grow forever and the Earth is like just sort of a toy chest.

You just keep reaching in there and pulling out resources, reaching in and pulling out

resources.

So the economy can grow infinitely because the Earth is an infinite cornucopia of resources.

The fact of the matter is that the economy is a fabrication, our economy is a fabrication,

a set of rules inside a finite planet.

There's a way to measure.

There's a way to measure the human impact, the impact of human consumption on the Earth.

It's called the ecological footprint, and they can measure every little scintilla of,

you know, my watch and my eyeglass.

Everything I have, everything we sit in, everything we walk around on, they can measure that in

terms of the amount of the planet it took to develop that.

So we have measured the amount of planet we have and humans are consuming more than the

amount of planet we have every year (that can be regenerated) ever since 1986.

That, to me, that data about overshoot has been a central feature of my life.

When I learned that, it was just sort of one of those things that's obvious, like, "certainly

we want to change."

So the old roadmap this idea that the Earth is a set of infinite resources, and the economy

can harvest those resources every which way from Sunday in order to produce economic growth.

That's fundamental and then it trickles down to the human as: "More is better."

And part of that is as the economy grew, as industrialization permitted more products

to be produced with less human labor there was a sort of a peaking out of consumption

around the 1920s and it became a problem, like what are we going to do?

So there's several ways to expand markets.

One is you export and another is to educate your citizens to want more than they need.

And then you've got an infinite market called the endless willingness of people to buy into

the story of 'more is better' and 'keep buying stuff.'

So that is the old roadmap: Growth is good, more is better, game over.

Not talking about the context of our lives, the social context where fairness is sort

of like built into us.

Babies all come with that stamp on them, you know.

Fairness is important and so you cannot stretch fairness and believe that there's no breaking

point.

So injustice aside, environmental integrity aside, more is better, growth is good, party

on.

The new roadmap says that there is something called "enough" and "enough" is not

sort of like this oppressive ceiling that, you know, "Okay, I've got enough and I

can't have any more."

No, enough is this sort of vibrant vital place.

What we teach is an awareness about the flow of money and stuff in your life in light of

your true happiness and your sense of purpose and values.

And that your "enough point," having Enough, is having everything you want and need to

have a life you love and full self-expression with nothing in excess.

It's not minimalism, it's not less is more, because sometimes more is more.

But it's that sweet spot.

It's the Goldilocks point.

And so Enough, for me, is like one of the absolute fulcrums between the old roadmap

for money and the new roadmap for money.

And our surveys of people who follow this program confirm again and again that once

people start to pay attention to the flow of money and stuff in their lives in this

way, their consumption drops by about 20 to 25 percent naturally, because that's the

amount of unconsciousness that you have in your spending.

So when you become conscious that falls away.

Many people say they don't even know what they used to spend their money on.

They are just—"Oh, surprise, I'm spending less.

I don't know how that happened.

I just paid attention.

I just asked myself is this purchase of something making me happy?"

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Quotacy Q+A Fridays: What Factors Affect My Life Insurance Cost? - Duration: 3:12.

Welcome to Quotacy's Q&A Friday where we answer your life insurance questions.

Quotacy is an online life insurance agency where you can get life insurance on your terms. I'm Jeanna and I'm Natasha.

Today's question is what determines how much my life insurance will cost?

Well

When it comes to cost whether you're buying a permanent life insurance

policy or term life insurance

Policy makes a big difference. And because permanent policies are far more complex than term let's just stick to talking about term life insurance today.

No two people are the same. So, Jeanna, if you and I were to buy the exact same term life insurance policy

Chances are we're going to be paying different premium amounts. The main factors that go into determining your cost

Are your age, your health, your gender, and your lifestyle. Let's break these down. Sounds good.

Well, age is kind of obvious.

The older you are, the more you're going to pay for life insurance because the older you are, the closer you are to death

So the higher the chances the life insurance company is going to pay out that big death benefit sooner rather than later.

Gender plays a part because women pay less than men. Statistically, women live longer than men.

So, again, men pay more because the chances are higher that a payout will happen sooner rather than later.

Your health is arguably the biggest factor in determining your life insurance costs. The most common factors

We see here at Quotacy are sleep apnea, diabetes, depression, and high cholesterol.

But just because you have a medical issue doesn't mean you can't get life insurance coverage.

The severity of your condition and how well it's managed is going to play a part in what risk class you're put into.

Your family's health history is also taken into consideration.

If anyone in your immediate family

Your mother, father, brother, or sister has been diagnosed with any serious conditions such as coronary heart disease, cancer, or diabetes

The life insurance underwriters are going to take a closer look at your medical profile.

And earlier Jeanna mentioned that your lifestyle can affect your pricing. And when we say lifestyle we mean your job,

hobbies, whether you use marijuana,

your driving record, and maybe if you

Have a history of bankruptcy. And when we say hobbies life insurance companies don't care if you needlepoint or play Dungeons & Dragons.

The hobbies they care about are the more risky hobbies like rock climbing, backpacking in remote regions, and scuba diving.

Because so many factors come into play when you apply for life insurance

applying with an agency that works with multiple life insurance companies is going to be your best bet at getting approved at an affordable rate. And

Not a life insurance companies underwrite the same way. For example,

Marijuana use is viewed very differently between different insurance companies.

While one company may approve a recreational marijuana user with a standard smoker rate,

Which means you're paying the same amount as a cigarette smoker, another company may approve you as a nonsmoker.

It definitely pays to work with the company that will give you options. Quotacy

is a life insurance broker, which means we're not tied to any one life insurance company.

We'll take a look at your application and make sure the company you want to apply to is going to give you the best options.

Thanks for watching! If you have any questions about life insurance

Make sure to leave us a comment. And if you have any questions regarding today's topic check out the blog link posted below.

Otherwise, tune in next week when we talk about how to buy life insurance to cover your final expenses. Bye!

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How much should I spend on video equipment? - Duration: 9:57.

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How Much to Reveal Online - Duration: 4:38.

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- Hey, I'm Keri Murphy and welcome back

to Inspired Living TV where we inspire lives

and help entrepreneurs become industry icons.

You know there is one question that I get asked

all the time during my two day, on camera training.

And that is, Keri, how much do I have to reveal online?

Just putting myself out there is scary enough.

Like do I really have to show what I'm eating

and what I'm doing on the weekends?

And my answer to that question is always this,

you have to choose how much you want to share.

There is a difference between authenticity

and transparency.

To me, authenticity is how you show up.

You're genuine, you're real, you're not false

or trying to be anything that you're not.

That is authentic.

Transparent is how much you decide to reveal.

You can be authentic and not be transparent.

And quite frankly you can be transparent

and not be authentic, does that make sense?

So when you're thinking about how you want to show up,

how you want to use social media,

there are a few tips that I think will really help you.

First of all, go back to what makes you you.

Why and how are you being authentic?

Because I think now more than ever before

people smell when someone's not being real.

People smell when someone's trying to be fake

or trying to be a version of themselves they're not.

So most important is don't do that,

speak like you, be like you, share like you.

And that brings me to transparency.

See, you get to share what you feel

is most relevant to your audience.

If your audience is someone who is dying

to know what you ate for breakfast,

well then by gosh, by golly, show them

that you had the egg sandwich.

My audience doesn't really care what I have to eat, right?

But they do want to know what I do in my life everyday.

So I choose to share special moments,

I choose to share my daughter.

And I choose to not share things as well.

You wanna go back to why you're doing what you're doing.

Who you're trying to reach.

And the point of reaching them.

Social media is all about engagement.

Video is all about engagement.

So we wanna get out of self serving posts,

self serving videos where it's all about me

and look at me and look at my food,

and you know, instead of look at what I can do for you.

I think the more you can be of service

in anything that you do, the quicker your brand will grow.

So to answer that question only you can really decide

what you want to share and what you don't.

There are things that I don't share much

on social media or in my videos.

So you get to pull back the curtain as much as you want.

There are some celebrities that are very well known

that are incredibly transparent, but are they authentic?

Who knows?

And then there are people that we love to follow.

They are so authentic but they don't reveal a lot,

they're pretty private, right?

So again it's really up to you.

So I would absolutely love to hear from you.

How are you showing up right now?

What are you willing to share and what are you not?

And does the difference between authenticity

and transparency make sense?

Please, post your comments below

because when you are inspired, you inspire others.

And my goodness, that is what this world is all about.

So I want to really encourage you

as you're getting out there, and you're facing that fear

of posting and showing up on camera,

the number one most important thing

is to understand who you are.

Why you do what you do and who you want to reach.

Everything else from there should show up authentically

and congruently and on a regular schedule, right?

I always say you can't post once and be done.

When you really want to make an impact,

when you really want to become an icon in your industry,

it's all about consistency over time.

So please don't lose hope or feel like,

oh my gosh, no one cares, no one's watching,

because it's just one person that you need to reach,

that could actually change that person's life

or someone next to them.

So thank you so, so much for watching this video.

It always means so much to me and I love reading

your comments so please post below,

share this with someone that you care about

and as always remember, to keep dreaming it,

living it and being it.

Until next time.

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