How to practice English listening skills (without spending extra time)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2014
- This video explains why most people fail to improve their listening. You'll also learn how to practice English listening without spending extra time. (The last section of the video might surprise you.)
There are two types of listening.
1) Trying to understand what they're saying in for example a podcast (passively)
2) Having a conversation with someone which requires you to respond back. This is more difficult. But at the same time will help you a lot more (actively)
Agree, but do you need a social media? or that need to be in real life? because I don't have any other person to practice my english so i don't know what to do.
@@emiliomaga739 I will help you.
@@ginbertmagno8027 This would be great
Not really. I have lots of conversations about enrollment/daily tasks (to manage some issues with my bank accounts as a example) and I feel influent. However, I don't feel so when I'm watching some movie or interview. It's more easier to listen/speak in real life in compare to watching videos
@@emiliomaga739 yo xd aunque también estoy aprendiendo…
I've already used this method. It's very good because you'll be putting the english language in your daily life. Besides it, you kill two birds with one stone, because you can clean your house, walk around the city, wash the dishes and so on in the same time that you're listening. Anyway, very nice this tip and thanks for sharing it with us.
Absolutely!
Other thing guys, there's this method called Shadowing you may like to do this while you're listening to podcasts. Now, I just want to add after a year since my last post here, DO NOT LEAVE MOVIES OR SERIES ON THE SIDELINES because, trust me, though your are losing time with all the effects and so forth, they are really helpful. It's not like podcasts where they speak slower and with fancy words, on movies and series it's daily english and most of advanced english speakers I know achieved this level by watching plenty of movies and series.
Wow,that's great and these methods are very hepful to improve my English listening skills. By the way, is it an old saying that'you kill two birds whth one stone'? It is very likely to come from Chinese. I'm a student from China.
He is from Brazil, like me... It´s very common here as well. ;)
Drew Arrow
Besides listening to MP3 files (interviews, documentaries, news and so on) I often listen to talk radio station using my smartphone while I'm walking or doing other things that require little attention, it's very useful.
podcasts are really so brilliant, I am from India, being an Indian is very very important to learn how to speak English well and communicate in it. every now and then I used to search ideas how to become a good learner and speaker of english, but when I came across your lessons I find it perfect. 😊
Hi shivani
Hi shivani
That's really a great idea for improving English 💡
Can you suggest me gud podcast to listen
@@safiyashaikh4999 Which kind of podcast you want to listen?
Inspirational, confidence, self help?
I'm so glad I found this video! I'm definitely apply this technique in my learning. Thank you so much💞
You made a point, i have been watching some sitcoms with subs, and i agree, that it does not works well, now im watching without subs, and ive already studied through podcasts, but with your videos, it opened in my mind a better way to increase my english skills, thank you man,,, keep up the good work
When I was learning French, my teacher told me that I had to listen to the same dialogs (the dialogs of our book) many times until being able to understand them very well without the text. So I started listening to those dialogs with enthusiasm. I do not know how many times I listened to them. At that time I had any ipod so I just could listened to them at home. Well, I tried out several things. I also watched some movies, but I did that to get familiar with the sounds on movies. What helped me the most was to listen to the dialogs for lontime. Very often I fell sleep listening to that and I also think that help me a lot because my brain absorbed that information through that.
Same happened me too
how your brain absorbed that information when you were trying to sleep? additionally, during the sleep and turned on audio the brain does not absorb the data because it is sleeping.
@@Drannn54 u r right, but brain never sleeps, however for learning u should be concentrated and conscious
I am a Hong Kong student, I think that MP3 materials really make use for me!! I hope my listening skills may improve very soon.
Thankyou so much.
Add oil, I am a new HKer from mainland, English listening is very important in my work, wish both of us will have a good listening!
Thanks a lot for this great method of listening sharing. I hope I can improve my listening by following your techniques!
Thank you for sharing your precious experience to us! Before watching this video i always thought that improving listenning skill by watching movies is the best way because i thought i felt relax when i was learning. I really really love the way you compared them. Now i can save 20,800 minutes per year for sleeping LOL. I was kidding i'll use it to learn another skills. Thank you very much.
I have never heard about this technique before. And it has made significant progress. Thank you a lot
do admit this way. I used this for a while and my listening skills have been better and better. Recently i haven't stopped to do this and your video makes me practise it again. Thanks for video :) . shared it
คิดออกทางเดียวว่าต้องดูหนังซ้ำๆ .. ไม่คิดว่ามีวิธีประหยัดเวลาแบบนี้ด้วย ยังไงขอนำไปฝึก accent เพิ่มนะครับ ขอบคุณครับ
Watching movies was my only thought for studying English. This is very convenient. I will take your advice to learn pronunciation and accent. Thank you so much.
Best Regards,
#chaisiam
PlearnGaming เขาแนะนำว่างัยคะ ฟังไม่รู้เรื่อง ช่วยแปลหน่อยได้ไหมคะ
คร่าวๆผมเดาว่า ไห้โหลดMp3บทสนทนา มาฟังไว้ในมือถือ เน้นฟังทุกช่วงเวลาเท่าที่จะทำได้ ไม่ไช่แค่เวลาว่าง เปิดไส่หูทิ้งไว้ ถ้าผิดขออภัย* ลิงค์ดาวโหลดไต้คลิปเบย
Somsak dasi ขอบคุณคะ
That way if you have a lot of free time
เรานั่งทำงาน คุยกับลูกค้าด้วย ก็ใส่หูไว้ตลอดข้างนึง
I got 8.0 for real from IELTS listening just by listening podcasts.❤
how long did it take?
@@gravitationalconstant6.67 2 months
Which materials did you use for that?
Pls suggest me wich podcast
Eshitganizni yozdizmi podcastdan 2oy oldin nechi edi listening score sizda.
EngFluent, thank you for sharing your experience. I hope to use this technique and give a boost to my listening skill. Thank you.
The most excellent tips I've ever seen to english students, congratulations!!!
I found this out recently myself so I totally agree. I think it's important to have that mix of conscious and unconscious listening. So i have conversations and do watch some movies but I also listen to material when cleaning, walking etc and it means that I get familiar with a much wider range of vocabulary and expression without putting in more study time. Even if im exhausted and busy, i can then still improve. Conversational materials that you can somewhat understand are important though.
A few people asked me, "What should I do if I don't understand what I'm listening to?" This is a good question. You can find the answer below. (It's a long one.)
When you don't understand the material, there are three things you can do.
==== Thing #1: Do nothing. ====
It’s not a big deal if you don’t understand some parts of the conversation as long as you understand the main idea. You don’t need to read the transcript just because you can’t make out some words/sentences.
Now you might be wondering, “If I don’t read, how will I learn the meaning of new vocabulary?”
This is a common concern. Some English students believe that in order to learn new words, they must look up those words in a dictionary. They believe that it’s the only way to learn new words.
But that’s not true! The truth is, your amazing brain has the ability to learn the meanings of new words from context (surrounding words). This is how you learned your first language (without using any transcript or dictionary).
So, don’t worry if you don’t know some words when listening to English. If you hear people use those words multiple times in different contexts, your brain will eventually figure out the meanings of those words.
But what if what you’re listening to is too difficult, and you don’t even understand the main idea? What do you do?
In this case, you should do thing #2.
==== Thing #2: Listen to something “easier”. ====
When some students start listening to something, they try to finish it even though it’s too difficult to understand. Trying to do so is painful. After a while, these students usually quit improving their English altogether!
This behavior is ridiculous. There’s a lot of free English material on the Internet. And new English material is produced every day. Therefore, there’s absolutely no need to “finish” what you start.
If what you’re listening to is too difficult (or boring), just delete it and find something else to listen to!
But what if almost everything is too difficult for you? What do you do?
In this case, you should do thing #3.
==== Thing #3: Read in English to improve your vocabulary. ====
f you feel like almost everything you listen to is too difficult to understand, your vocabulary is probably very small. That’s why you have trouble understanding most English conversations.
In this case, I recommend that, other than listening to English, you also read in English to quickly learn words and phrases commonly used in conversations.
Thanks teachers ,i like it
EngFluent thanks sempaii...
surrounding what?
Thank you for your help !I have known that I should spare no effort to practice if I wanna learn English well ,cuz practice makes perfect !Now I get a new method from you to improve my listening skill ,I think I'll make it someday !thank you again !
EngFluent
I think the channel's owner is a Thai. He did great job. Thank you very much. It's easy to listen and understand.
Wow! Very well explained! The more convenient the practice the more you likely do it in longer time.
I'm studying with Podcast since August 15th , instead of whatch TV series and my listening skills has significantly increased. I came here just to make sure that I was doing the right thing, and I'm.
Thks!
can you kind provide me the direct links.. just cant be able to find them..
SABIYAH AFROZ ANANNA Go to ITunes and search for " ESL Podcast "
Or eslpod.com
Thanks a lot!!!
I've already explored the ESL, it's a amazing!
Can this website improve my listening skill, i wonder about it because my skill is quiet bad.
Thank you very much! It's really working. My method is to listen to english songs (not just hearing) and try to understand what the singer actually saying. By doing so, my english listening skills flies to a next level XD
Good advices, thanks a lot for it. I wouldn’t imagine how much time we have to spend learning by watching movies. Greetings from Dominican Republic.
I had never done this practice listening in my life, it helps too much. Thanks Bro! Like and subscribed.
It's not about the minutes spent in the learning process it's about the quality of the process itself.
In watching movies, the actions and visual aids help enormously in internalizing new vocabulary and content by combining them with specific situations that are hard to forget.
Of course your method is highly effective, but underestimation of movie-watching way is wrong.
I totally agree
I think so
ya I agree on this
yehh I coudn't agree more
Some feeling. the right substantial listening material are more important than the time spend on that. From my struggle experience, people need to listen what they totally read previously. and repeat until you totally familiar with phrase or vocab whin 3000 High Frequent things
The way you are explaining is really awesome bro......
I've just seen this video and it was really impressive. Your idea is great and I will try my best to improve my english listening skills according to this method. Thank you so much
Thank you very much. Your technique is very helpful and useful. I was looking for something like this long time ago. I just found it from you.! :)
I think that mixing both of the methods, practicing while doing something else and watching movies or whatever you put dedicated effort into, is the best way. Because yes, your method is "convenient" and makes you waste a considerably less amount of time, but you aren't really focusing your attention on that 100%. While with the "incovenient" way, you dedicate to it 100% focused on learning and don't divide your attention into learning and doing something else.
Thank you so much. I love this way to practicing English listening skills. You make a lot of good points. I will use this tip & I hope my listening skills improve soon.
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Thank you for your videos. This is my first time I visit your channel and I really impressed. Your voice is clear. Iam not good at English but I can understand all of what you said in your videos. That's amazing!
Thank you very much, this is really awesome !
this is channel is great I hope if I find it earlier .
from now on I'll listen to the podcast when I'm do my exercises
I'll share it with my friend and classmates ^^ .
I'm an American learning Japanese, but your advice is amazing. After I watch an episode of something, I download it as an mp3. I use Audacity to cut out the theme song, sound effects, and long silence. Recently, I downloaded a show that was 20 minutes long, but cut it down to 13 minutes! When I'm at work or driving, I listen to the audio I edited. I also try to shadow/repeat what is being said in the audio to improve my pronunciation and intonation.
Thanks for the compliment. You're even more efficient than me with your learning! I love it. Good luck with your Japanese learning :)
Thanks for your idea! I think it will work for me.
But don't forget you're in the car..
katt230 That's a great idea! Edit out the crap and then copy, copy, copy!
Can we be friend?
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the method and the listening material's link. That's very helpful for me :) :)
I'm really thankful!! thx man!! I hope , I'm gonna improve my listening skills :)
This was really helpful and completely agree. A simple mechanism (may be point 2b), to evaluate your progress would be, to keep track of the volume at which you are listening to the audio/video. Initially you would have to keep it at enough high level, say 10. At 9 you might not be able to understand the conversation to its fullest. After few days of practice try at 9. If you feel no difference, you did it. Keep on reducing it. Expert level means you are able to understand even whisper conversation !!!! Good luck...
Hi there, I'm Chris from Brazil and I'm learning english by myself. I really thought your tips very useful.
Thanks a lot.
I'm working on it
20800 min is appropriately 1 hour per day... I'm spending this time in vocabulary, Grammer rules, and reading 10 pages of a book every day. I'm targeting every book on my shelf by the end of May 2021. Also, I have joined a community, where we speak English on group discussion topics 3 days a week.
Thank you for filling the gap in my strategy 😊
Amazing video! It deserves full attention! Thanks a lot for the tips.
thks, this video helps me a lots in my listening :)))
i like the way that u say. it's easy to listen :)
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Natthiphon Kuo Do you like to speak with me.
Thanks a lot.
yes
Natthiphon Kuo that’s true 🐕🐕🐕
I plan to use this in my class. Thank you for sharing.
Of course, i will share it with my friends. Thank you for uploading this video, it is awesome!
Big thanks for the great tips and materials you give us through you videos ;) I just have one question before I start practicing the new way of listening:
how can we learn vocabulary if we don't see how the words are written ? and how can we know what they mean since we don't know how to write them in the dictionary??
Thank you :)
+Aisha Abdulmawjood
use kindle for reading the books!
This is a common concern. Many English students believe that in order to learn new words, they must look up those words in a dictionary. They believe that it’s the only way to learn new words.
But that’s not true! The truth is, your amazing brain has the ability to learn the meanings of new words from context (surrounding words). This is how you learned your first language (without using any transcript or dictionary).
So, don’t worry if you don’t know some words when listening to English. If you hear people use those words multiple times in different contexts, your brain will eventually figure out the meanings of those words!!!
Thanks!!!!
thank you for your such a useful advice. I have big problem with listening and it's about three years I have been studying English language, but I still have the same problem. Every listening test is very hard for me. I was wondering if you could add some daily conversation on RUclips.
lol you have such an interesting perspective on spending time!! what I perceive is that not only watching movies does take much more time but also those materials are much harder to be understood on a general basis. i think it's really important to listen to the listening materials which are close to our abilities to be comprehended and bring us content diversities as well.
Wow, wonderful!!! I wish i had known this approach sooner 🥺🥺 thank you very much ❤️❤️
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Thanks for the great advice! Actually, I really frustrated with listening English when in class and working place; I tried to get an appropriate, effective and best way to improve my English listening as soon as possible.So I also tried the fail ways which you mentioned in your video are time consumed and inconvenient. I gonna try the way you suggest, and just wonder how much I can expect to improve if I spend 30 mins daily to listen Podcast in 6 months. And my current status is that totally understand your video without subtitle, but really hard to understand my coworkers' talking/joking/
Are you achieved the result ?
@@mateusviana5954Have you. “Have you achieved the results?” ;)
@@giorgionapoli85 thanks for correct me 😃🤗
thank u bro! that was great. i've already found out this by great teacher A j Hoge and also ur approach is wonderful. Good luck dude and thanks again.
Thank you so much for that tips! I found this tip is very useful and helpful for me. Thank you for the video once again! :)
Hi, my name is Luis and I want to say thanks for your videos the cartoons are very funny and catch all my attention. My vocabulary is no to complete but I understood almost all you said see you.
You're welcome Luis.
This video has been publishing since 2 years ago and i just watched it today :D anyway i want to ask you something. as you said that if we get used to listen to the english conversation sound so it will really help us perhaps not only in our listening skill but also in speaking. i agree with this statement. but, what if i dont understand the meaning of that sound? i mean sometimes i cant really catch what the speaker say so i cant understand the meaning as well. what do you think about this? thank you.. this video is inspiring me ;)
Real question.
Yes, I listen to podcasts too and there are a lot of them in specific apps for iOS and Android.
Good advice!! I´ll practice that way. Thanks!!
After 10 years of school, some courses tooked by my self and 5 months in an english institute, I'm still B2 level speaker xD and this year I began to learn another 2 lenguages (italian and german at the same time) In this moment, keeping the rutin with 4 lenguages (spanish native speaker) is a really tiring challenge.
Wow one day I would like to be like you 🥹👏🏻
@@tanniajara9744 2023 and that method didn't worked, it seems better to learn 1 language up to a desired level and then start the next one, otherwise the words and grammar are gonna mix and keep you stuck.
@@nicolasleonnarino3159 you’re right! Greetings! 🤗
Hola nico, algun concejo, aun soy A2 y quiero llegar a B2 pero me siento estancado con el listening y el speaking, ¿podrias ayudarme?
You said that you took a long time to make your listening becomes better. I would like to know how long it was? I'm so curious haha. Hope you will reply my comment.
Thank you pretty much I think that technique is so useful for improving my listening because I've had a couple of problems when I listen to something my mind tries to translate everything into my real language.
i have been chasing my own time to spend it at something else but you gave me an idea to reprogram my own time thanks man.
Thank you. You have shared some new points I hadn't thought of. I usually suggest people to listen to real conversations, but point them to some radio talk show podcasts. I also mention that movies and tv shows aren't real conversations because they are scripted. I like your point about movies being only partially conversation, so it wastes our time. Yes, that is another good point. Thank you!
Jennifer, thank for your thoughtful comment! I'm glad you feel the same about the ineffectiveness of improving your listening by watching movies. I know that works to some degree. But I want English learners to use a more practical, effective method. I want them to succeed faster!
EngFluent How nice to get a response! Yes, for those who can access the internet and podcasts, there are many more effective options for natural conversation. And, the idea of listening while on the train or doing other things is good too.. this is how we pick up language as babies/kids. An ideal combination is passive and active listening whenever possible :).
EngFluent thanks for your tips, i hope for developing my listening
@@authenticjourneys well to be real honest, babies/kids pick most of their vocabulary from cartoons, so no, your comment is not really that useful, just watch/listen anything that interest you and make you angage with the language the most, that's the true answer/advice.
@@piqui88 I do agree it can work for some people. Most of those I coach it doesn't happen to work for. Most of the individuals I coach are career professionals with families learning English as a Second Language, so I suppose it may be different for this demographic than children.
I don't agree with your method number 2, but that's only me, a mere English Instructor.
The way that I do is... I practice the Listening during 40 to 60 min. 3x a week. Like you I download real and natural English conversations e listen to them. The reason for this is that I believe in the concentration part and reviewing part. I select 3 or 4 conversations and listen to them two or three times. That way I can focus on the expressions, phrasal verbs and all of that.
That's how I practice the concentration and reviewing part. (PS: I listen to the same conversations for a week, then I change them). For me if you practice while doing other things you don't focus and distract yourself with things around you, like a car accident, hot girls or boys depending on where you are, people fighting and so on.
I'm not saying that your method doesn't work, I'm saying that I don't think number 2 is effective.
+Alexandre Banks I agree 100%. And I'm a teacher as well. He contradicted himself on that one. How are you "listening" if you are not paying attention? how is that effective? There is such a thing as subliminal learning, and the brain does get used to listening to that language, but it doesn't mean that you can rely on that method (which is lazy too). You do need some help. I do think that a school or a teacher is a must for a language.
What a great lesson ..!! Thank you.
i've looked sth method like that long time, really long time. Thank You for share and explain what to do to improve my hearing skills. greeting from Poland ;)
Dude where u from? Your accent is perfect for the beginners
If you let me guess. I guess he is Thai! right?
watching, doesn't only mean movies. documentaries, news, even educational videos like this one. when we see an audiovisual media, we can read subtitles and understand what the people are talking about. but if we only listen, there's a big chance we don't even know what we're listening. I've listened to spanish songs for more than 6 years and I still can't listen accurately without the help of written lyrics
OMG! the same happens to me, but with songs in English...I have to read the lyrics.
@@CristinadelaLuz same with me
Thanks man for the lesson. Now i can improve my listening English skills more!
Thanks a lot man, it was really helpful! God bless you!! Congratulations for the amazing video!!!!
I like the video but there are a few problems.
1) How are you "listening" if you are not paying attention? What good is spending so much time on something that you're not putting 100% of your full attention to?
2) How would you know what these basic conversations are saying? How? I could listen to ramnstein all day doesn't mean I'll learn German. It just means I'll get used to hearing it.
3) How is listening going to help you SPEAK the language? You do need somebody to break it up to you. It does require a school or a teacher.
It starts at 1:54
Your welcome
Nice look
you saved my valuable seconds thanks for that
Our time was wasted
Thank u
Thanks
That's the best tip to improve my listening skills and I'm sure that will work, thank you so much brah.
Thanks for letting me know that.
I'm gonna try this.
hey! I'm from south korea and first of all thanks for your video but while I'm watching this,I've something to ask to you. you told its not ok to watch movies with subtitles and just listen however what if there are any parts that I couldnt possibly understand? for me its like merely listening chuncks of English and also can't listen the vocabularies that I dont know and it makes me cast doubt how I can see improvement if I dont understand words
+tae yeop kim Great, I face this problem also cuz if I don't understand what are they saying? so it doesn't make sense to listen. so if any suggest please.
The same question I asked myself and still haven't fount the answer
i think just listening never gonna help u to improve. what about watching Amercian drama for 3 times? at first u just watch it without any subtitles and then write down the point u didnt understand and hear on a note or sth and then watch it again with English subtitle but in this time u should watch it very carefully with keeping in mind the parts u didnt understand : if the reason y u didnt understand is that experssion is not familar with u then write down on note ,or if not, just listen carefully at this time and lastly u just watch it all the way through. after this step of watching go over the note u made and use expression in real life in right situation! it will help it to last long in ur brain. the more u watch amercian drama the more u get better i guess
Thank you for your advice! Yeah this way seems good to learn vocabulary.. I'll try it soon
Hey, good question, I'm from Brazil, and I'm improving my listening and vocabulary with Podcast. Go to ITunes and search for " ESL Podcast "
ESL means: English as Second Language.
You will be surprised, i guarantee.
"Best" luck!
Step1 - listen english conversations
Step2 - Listen those while you are busy with something not in free times.
Benefits - You would be saving alot of times which could be used for building vocabularies by reading english books amd articles.
Plz bro tell me what he said in this vdo
It makes all the sense, doesn't it? Why haven't I thought of that before? Brilliant idea
Incredible ! I hear the radio many time. I let an internet radio all the time when I am in my house and in a few days I can understand much more.. ;-)
hey man do you think that i can practice my english listening with just watching smosh, nigahiga? they are youtubers that make funny videos maybe they dont use the best grammar but it is okey for me please answer my question
Yes that helps too!
It's also a great way.
To be honest. I like your video but I do not like your recommendation that ist the website of listening because some listening takes 16 minutes and I would rather watch cartoons instead of listening podcasts because SpongeBob episodes take just 7 minutes.
hahaha
I recommend Speechyard
Yes ,i 'm really into this teachnque and it is useful.Thank you.
You're right. Thank you so much. I have learned like this way, it works, it is not bored.
can i listen to BBC news behalf of MP3.
+Saicharan J Yeah sure it 'd be much more better
thank you
Rtyre Tyt can you tell me the reason?
Zorry Alejandro because CNN is an American chanell and BBC is a British channel, so if you want to learn American English you should watch American TV.
Malayalikal undo
Thank you !! I hope I'm steong enough to be patient. Greetings from Spain
thank you sooooo much this is very helpful and this video helps most probably all of english learners to achieve their goals
what if i can't understand what i listen
Thanks for the question. Please read the pinned comment at the top. I put my answer to your question there.
you can click to box more, and click transcrips for read sub ^^
You're speaking so slowly that drives me crazy! Please could it be just a little bit faster?
Nah, he is a non-native speaker. What do you expect ? He have to speaking slowly so that all of us can understand
Checking it! THanks for the idea and the sources you provide us. :)
Thank you very much, this is really helpful! You explain everything in a very funny and entertaining way. :)
i wanted to say THIS a time ago...YOUR CHANNEL IS AWSOME AND USEFUL SO MUCH
This is the great stuff to improve my listening skill.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your learning techniques.
I wish I could like this infinite times. Thank u so much, bud! I'm a new subscriber!
thank for your help
the listening materials you share are very natural that I do love to listen them. I have learnt English at school for 9 years but I can't understand until I use your method . Now my English is getting better.
thanks a lot
I have a question :how long have been you learnt English?
Thanks! You're right, I agree your technic.
Thanks for all your tips, they are really amazing.
WoW:) The tutorial is awesome :) Surely i will follow this :) Highly recommended !!!!!!
Thank you very much for these awesome techniques. :)
good Job EngFluent..this is exactly what i was searching for.....
Thank you for sharing this interesting video. It's really really helpful. Thank you so much 👍
i spend my free time to increase my vocabulary thank you by the way a lot