Learn the English Phrases "on the fast track" and "fast-forward"

In this English lesson,

I wanted to help you learn the English phrase,

on the fast track.

Now, there's two ways to learn English.

You can study at home on your own time

or if you wanna be on the fast track,

you can move to an English speaking country

and live with an English speaking family,

then you would definitely be on the fast track.

So, this phrase then means to take a route that's faster.

Sometimes someone starts working at a company

and they do a really good job, and they work extra hours,

and they just really want to get a promotion,

you would say that they are on the fast track

if they manage to do that.

They impress their boss by working long days,

doing things successfully

and just making the company better.

You would say, "Oh, they're on the fast track

to getting a promotion."

So, anytime you're on the fast track,

it means you're going faster than other people.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today

is the phrase fast-forward.

Now, this is a button that you use to speed up a video

but we also use this when we talk about our lives.

I could say this, five and a half years ago,

I only had a few subscribers, but fast forward a few years

and I had a hundred thousand subscribers.

Fast forward again and a few years later,

I had over a million.

This is on my other channel, by the way not this channel,

this channel is cool and small and that's the way I like it.

So, you can use the word fast-forward

to talk about events in your life as well.

So to review, when you're on the fast track,

it means you are progressing in a faster way

than other people at something

like learning English or getting a promotion at work.