Rule 1: Learn English Phrases
What is the rule? The rule is always learn phrases, not individual words. So simple. A phrase is a group of words. But it's just an even a part of sentence. So, for example let's say you have the word "hate" and you want to learn this word. You can write down the world hate and you find it from the dictionary the meaning and you memorising it "hate". That's the old way, that's the kind of text book way, the school way right? In school, you probably remember a lot of individual words. You have big vocabulary lists. You try to memorize all of them, you try to memorize all of the individual, single words. It's not good way to learn. Much better if you learn the pharase, a group of words. And where do you find these phrases? You find these phrases in the real english podcasts that you listening to, in the real english story books that you are reading. And don't memorize the lists in a book. No, no, no.
You listen to real english and when you hear a new word, you write down. Or when you reading a story book, when you see a new word, you write it down. Bu you do not write down just that word. You are going to write down whole phrase or part of sentence that is end, all of it. So instead of the "hate", you write it down the "hate", you would say, you write down "john hate ice cream" you write down whole phrase.
Why do we do this? What is the power of the phrases? Well, phrases give you a lot of information, much more information. Number one,phrases are easy to remember. Because they have meaning. They have kind of a Picture of a story. Especially when you get them from something that you are reading or listening to. You remember it. "John hates ice cream". You remember the whole story, you remember the who John is, you remember he has an ice cream and he hates ice cream, he didn't like it. Write theese all of extra information helps you remember the mening of the phrase and the meaning of the word. So it heps you memory, much easier to memory.
Number two, there is a bonus. When you learn phrases, you are learning grammar also. You are not only learning individual word, you are learning grammar. You are learning how to use that word correctly. You don't need to think about grammar. You don't need to know rules, it's automatic. This is another way that native speakers learn english grammar. Because we were children we learn with phrases. We learn groups of words, not just one word by one word, by one word. Word by word is slow and it doesn't help. And you don't learn any grammar. When you learn whole phrase, you write dont phrase, you are getting extra information. Maybe you don't know it but you are. For example, "Jonh hates ice cream". Just that word, just Jonh hates. You know grammar study getting the subject in the word the agree.. you don't need to think about that. Just write down the phrase "Jonh hates ice cream" and study it, review it. Always learn the phrase, not just that word.
And so in the future whenever you say, he hates ice cream, she hates ice cream. You will add that "s" right. Because how you learned it. You learned it correctly. You learned it from a phrase. On the other hand, if you learn it from a textbook you just learn the word "hate" means does not like, you learn that form hate, hate, hate, and you study, study, study you memorize it thats make you make some mistakes. Because you learned it from only this one way. You didn't learn the other words. So, sometimes you will say "he hate ice cream". You will forget the "s". Because you never learn it correctly in a sentence, in a phrase.
So it is very simple rule and each rule in the course very very important. Every time you will find a new word, always write the phrase or the sentence. When you review that word again when you study it again always, always always, study the entire phrase or sentence. Never study just the word, always the phrase. Do this every time, your grammar will began to improve much faster. And you will remember the vocabulary faster and more easily and you will use that vocabulary more quickly. So you get a lot of great benefits, a lot of great stuff happens when you learn phrases instead of words. So, phrases, phrases, phrases, learn them.
I hope you enjoy rule number one. Use this rule. And your homework is to get a little phrase notebook. So when you find a new english vocabulary in a lesson, in a something that you listening to, in a book, in an article; write down the phrase, not just one word, write down the entire, the whole phrase that you find. And then review that phrase again and again each day. You will create a notebook full of phrases, full of sentences not individual words, never individual words.
Rule 2: Do Not Study Grammar
Hi, this is A.J. Hoge again, the director of Effortless English. And today, we are going to learn about rule number two. Now, rule number two is a suprise for many people. Rule number two is simple. Do Not Study Grammar Rules. Do not do it.Now I know, this is a tough rule for some people. Because, most of your life, learning english, you have been told to learn grammar rules. In middle school, In high school, In university, In language school, everywhere in the world; grammar, grammar, grammar. So, my first question to you is: Did it work? Was it successful?
Do not Study English
If you are watching this video, you have studied english before in school, somewhere. And probably, you focused on grammar rules. So, my question is: Can you speak english easily, quickly and automatically right now? If the answers no, Why not? Because you have studied english for many years already. Why can't you speak english quickly, easily and automatically, why not?
Well, it's not your fault actually. The reason, the answer for most people is that you study grammar rules too much. You focused on, grammar rules. Why? Because your teachers told you to.
Why is it bad to study grammar rules? Well because, when you study grammar rules, when you focus on grammar rules, you focus on analysing english. In other words, you think about english. You think about the past tense, the present tense, the future, the present perfect, the past perfect.
Now for writing english, that's Okay. Why? Because when you write english you have time. You can go slowly. You can write very slowly, you can think about it, you can erase your misteke, it's okay. You don't need to write fast. But for speaking, there is no time. You do not have time to think about rules, the present perfect tense in english when you listening and speaking. There is no time. Someone asks you a question, you must answer immediately. You have no time to think about propositions, you have no time to think about verb tenses, possessives, all the stuff you learned, there is no time.
How do native speakers learn grammar? Well, I am a native english speaker and I can tell you, I never studied grammar rules. Not until high school. And we studied grammar rules for writing. In college native speakers study grammar rules again, why? For writing. But for speaking, we don't. So how do we learn grammar rules? We learn through listening. Through hearing correct grammar again and again a lot of correct grammar.
So the best way to learn english grammar is through imput. Another word, english coming in mostly through your ears. But reading is also okay but don't read textbooks, don't read grammar books. Just read easy english books, easy novels. But most of all listening. Now, in the next e-mails that you get, I will tell you exactly how to learn grammar and easy way and effortless way, without studiying rules. So keep getting those e-mails. Reed the next e-mails, because in later e-mails I will tell you exactly how to learn english grammar so you can use it quickly and very fast when you are speaking. Not just writing. But for now, for today, the number two rule, i want you to remember that "Do Not Study Grammar Rules" If you focus on grammar rules it will hurt your speaking. Your speak will more slowly, your understanding will be more slowly.
So if you have grammar books, throw away! Put in them in a trash, good bye grammar books. If you want, you can burn it. Burn them in a fire. J Because, they are useless. They will not help you with your english speaking or your english learning or listening. So good bye grammar books. No more grammar rules yeaaa. That shoud make you happy. J Okay, good enough. This is the second rule for learning to speak excellent english. Tomorrow you will get the next rule. Rule number three tomorrow. So, I hope you enjoy this e-mail course and these videos.
Hi, this is A.J. Hoge, director of Efforltess English. Welcome to rule number 3. So, the rule number 3 is very simple, so easy. And yet, very very powerful. In fact, I usually say this is the number one suggestion, the number one rule, the most important rule and so easy, and it is this: Learn With Your Ears, Not With Your Eyes. Okay, if you want to speak excellent english, you have got to learn with your ears; listening, listening, listening and more listening is the key to speaking excellent english. It is the most important thing. Because if you listen a lot, you are gonna learn vocabulary, you will learn grammar. You will get faster and you will understand better. Listening is the kind of the magic key to great english speaking.
There is a lot of research about this. And all shows the same thing. Listening the most important thing you can do. So this tells us one reason you probably have some trouble with your speaking. Why? Because again, when you learn english in school, you probably learned mostly with your eyes. Most english schools, midle schools, high school, university, private english schools, most of them focus on textbooks in the classroom.
I am sure, this has been true for you also. So, textbooks, textbooks, textbooks. So, that's the problem. In school, basically you learn with your eyes, and basically in school you learned to write english. You also learned to think about english. So, you know about a lot of grammar rules. In fact you know more about grammar rules than most americans, most canadians, most british people. Because native speakers don't study that stuff very much.
Native speakers learns to speak english with their ears, by listening, listening, listening. And that's you must do, if you want to speak english quickly, easily, automatically, correctly just like a native speaker.
So , let me be little more specific about listening. Because it is important how you listen and what you listen too. The most important thing is you must listen to easy english. It must be easy. What do I mean by easy? Well, you should understand 95% or more, without stopping, without a dictionary. So that's quite easy right? You wanna a lot of easy english listening. Now, you might try children's programs. You might try children's audio books. Or may be audio books, you know, teenagers like americans who are 13, 14, 15 years old. If that's too difficult, find something easier. You can listen to listening programs for very small children. Now if something more difficult, you can still use it. But you usually need the text. You need to be able to reed it. So, that's also useful.
You can get an audio article or speech. Or a lessons even. And you have the text so, you can read and listen at the same time. That's okay also. But listening the most important thing. Listen, listen, listen. Every chance you have. Get an ipot, get an mp3 player or ipod. Listen to english all the time. Listen in the morning when you get up. Listen when you go to work or when you are at home. Listen when you are at lunch. Listen when you are coming from work. Listen in the evening. Lots and lots and lots of english listening. Lots of easy english listening.
That's your number one key. Listen to podcasts, listen to videos. If you have a free podcast, listen to that. Listen, listen, listen Okay? It's so simple, it's easy and it's super powerful. Please do this. Focus on listening, not on textbooks, not on learning with your eyes. Learn with your ears. It is the most powerful. Okay? So, that's rule number 3.
If you are watching this video, you have studied english before in school, somewhere. And probably, you focused on grammar rules. So, my question is: Can you speak english easily, quickly and automatically right now? If the answers no, Why not? Because you have studied english for many years already. Why can't you speak english quickly, easily and automatically, why not?
Well, it's not your fault actually. The reason, the answer for most people is that you study grammar rules too much. You focused on, grammar rules. Why? Because your teachers told you to.
Why is it bad to study grammar rules? Well because, when you study grammar rules, when you focus on grammar rules, you focus on analysing english. In other words, you think about english. You think about the past tense, the present tense, the future, the present perfect, the past perfect.
Now for writing english, that's Okay. Why? Because when you write english you have time. You can go slowly. You can write very slowly, you can think about it, you can erase your misteke, it's okay. You don't need to write fast. But for speaking, there is no time. You do not have time to think about rules, the present perfect tense in english when you listening and speaking. There is no time. Someone asks you a question, you must answer immediately. You have no time to think about propositions, you have no time to think about verb tenses, possessives, all the stuff you learned, there is no time.
How do native speakers learn grammar? Well, I am a native english speaker and I can tell you, I never studied grammar rules. Not until high school. And we studied grammar rules for writing. In college native speakers study grammar rules again, why? For writing. But for speaking, we don't. So how do we learn grammar rules? We learn through listening. Through hearing correct grammar again and again a lot of correct grammar.
So the best way to learn english grammar is through imput. Another word, english coming in mostly through your ears. But reading is also okay but don't read textbooks, don't read grammar books. Just read easy english books, easy novels. But most of all listening. Now, in the next e-mails that you get, I will tell you exactly how to learn grammar and easy way and effortless way, without studiying rules. So keep getting those e-mails. Reed the next e-mails, because in later e-mails I will tell you exactly how to learn english grammar so you can use it quickly and very fast when you are speaking. Not just writing. But for now, for today, the number two rule, i want you to remember that "Do Not Study Grammar Rules" If you focus on grammar rules it will hurt your speaking. Your speak will more slowly, your understanding will be more slowly.
So if you have grammar books, throw away! Put in them in a trash, good bye grammar books. If you want, you can burn it. Burn them in a fire. J Because, they are useless. They will not help you with your english speaking or your english learning or listening. So good bye grammar books. No more grammar rules yeaaa. That shoud make you happy. J Okay, good enough. This is the second rule for learning to speak excellent english. Tomorrow you will get the next rule. Rule number three tomorrow. So, I hope you enjoy this e-mail course and these videos.
Rule 3: Listening English
Hi, this is A.J. Hoge, director of Efforltess English. Welcome to rule number 3. So, the rule number 3 is very simple, so easy. And yet, very very powerful. In fact, I usually say this is the number one suggestion, the number one rule, the most important rule and so easy, and it is this: Learn With Your Ears, Not With Your Eyes. Okay, if you want to speak excellent english, you have got to learn with your ears; listening, listening, listening and more listening is the key to speaking excellent english. It is the most important thing. Because if you listen a lot, you are gonna learn vocabulary, you will learn grammar. You will get faster and you will understand better. Listening is the kind of the magic key to great english speaking.
There is a lot of research about this. And all shows the same thing. Listening the most important thing you can do. So this tells us one reason you probably have some trouble with your speaking. Why? Because again, when you learn english in school, you probably learned mostly with your eyes. Most english schools, midle schools, high school, university, private english schools, most of them focus on textbooks in the classroom.
I am sure, this has been true for you also. So, textbooks, textbooks, textbooks. So, that's the problem. In school, basically you learn with your eyes, and basically in school you learned to write english. You also learned to think about english. So, you know about a lot of grammar rules. In fact you know more about grammar rules than most americans, most canadians, most british people. Because native speakers don't study that stuff very much.
Native speakers learns to speak english with their ears, by listening, listening, listening. And that's you must do, if you want to speak english quickly, easily, automatically, correctly just like a native speaker.
So , let me be little more specific about listening. Because it is important how you listen and what you listen too. The most important thing is you must listen to easy english. It must be easy. What do I mean by easy? Well, you should understand 95% or more, without stopping, without a dictionary. So that's quite easy right? You wanna a lot of easy english listening. Now, you might try children's programs. You might try children's audio books. Or may be audio books, you know, teenagers like americans who are 13, 14, 15 years old. If that's too difficult, find something easier. You can listen to listening programs for very small children. Now if something more difficult, you can still use it. But you usually need the text. You need to be able to reed it. So, that's also useful.
You can get an audio article or speech. Or a lessons even. And you have the text so, you can read and listen at the same time. That's okay also. But listening the most important thing. Listen, listen, listen. Every chance you have. Get an ipot, get an mp3 player or ipod. Listen to english all the time. Listen in the morning when you get up. Listen when you go to work or when you are at home. Listen when you are at lunch. Listen when you are coming from work. Listen in the evening. Lots and lots and lots of english listening. Lots of easy english listening.
That's your number one key. Listen to podcasts, listen to videos. If you have a free podcast, listen to that. Listen, listen, listen Okay? It's so simple, it's easy and it's super powerful. Please do this. Focus on listening, not on textbooks, not on learning with your eyes. Learn with your ears. It is the most powerful. Okay? So, that's rule number 3.
Rule 4: Deep Learning English
Hi, this is A.J. again, director of Effortless English. Welcome to the fourth rule for speaking excellent English. Now, this rule is also very simple. In fact, all of these rules are simple. But when you use them, when you use all of them, change the way you learn english, you will get fantastic results. So, rule number 4 is also important.
Rule number 4 again is very simple and is this: Learn Deeply. Deep Learning. What is that mean? Well, deep learning basically means repeating what you learn again and again and again, many many times. So, this again is very different from the way you learned in the school. Unfortunately, most schools have a lot of pressure to go fast, fast, fast they are always pushing the students to learn more vocabulary, more vocabulary very fast. New grammar, new grammar, new grammar every week new grammar. Every week a lot of words right? Because, going through these text books. And they are trying to finish textbook very quickly.
So, what's the problem? Well the problem is the students, you, you learn a lot of stuff but then you forget it. You forget what you learned. Or you remember basic idea but you can't use it. So, for example, all students who have study english, learn the past tense. You learned the past tense. But you studied it in a textbook. And then boom, very fast you went and you learned more grammar. You learned possessives, you learned future, you learned the present perfect. So constantly going very fast. So you never mastered the past tense. You did not learn the past tense deeply, deeply, deeply like a native speaker. That's why you make mistakes with the past tense still. You studied many years but you make stil mistakes with the past tense. Because, you never mastered it, you never learned it very very deeply.
So, you need to slow down and repeat everything you learn again, again and again. For example, when people use my lessons, when they bu my lessons, I tell them, you listen the same lesson set, the same group of lessons the same topic everyday for two weeks. That's right. The same lessons, maybe two or three lessons you listen the same one's on Monday, Tuesday same lessons, wednesday same lessons, Thursday, friday and Saturday for one week, two weeks if it is still difficult then do it again. Three weeks, four weeks, it is not a race. You want to learn everything very deeply. So that you really learn it. So that you never forget it. So, you can really use it. That's deep learning.
So, if you have an audio article or podcast, something you are listening to and you like it don't just listen one time. One time is not enough. Five times not enough. You should listen to that the article, the speech, whatever it is, you should listen to it thirty times, fifty times, one hundred times or more. Well, you can a few thing, may be you have two or three audio articles and each day you listen to them all. But then, you repeat them again, you repeat them again, you repeat them again, you are learning deeply, deeply. Even after you know the vocabulary, continue to listening the same thing. Because, knowing the vocabulary, just means you can take a test and say the meaning. But when you hear it, you instantly understand it, can you use it quickly and easily, automatically? If their answers no, you need to repeat more. You need to listen to that same word, phrase, sentence, article, lesson again and again and again, many, many times. This is the one of the key secrets to speaking faster and to really learning grammar correctly and using it correctly.
So, focus, for example when you listen a story in the past tense, listen that story again and again and again; one week, two weeks, three weeks. Then another story in the past tense, one week, two weeks, three weeks. And then another story in the past tense, one week, two weeks, three weeks. You never stop. I am a native speaker, and all my life, I have been learning the past tense. I still listen the past tense now and will, as long as i live. So, you never stop. This basic key verb tenses, grammar, learning all of it, that's the common words, you've gotta keep listening to them like a native speaker. You hear them every single day. You repeat them again and again.
I heard of past tense, I don't know tens of thousand times, millions of times. I heard the basic most common of vocabulary in english; everyday, thousands, tens of thousands, millions of times. And I will continue to hear them. That's why I can use them quickly and automatically. And maybe you can't. You just need more repetition, you gotta learn words deeply. Focus on the most common words, the most common vocabulary and the most common english. Through the listening and then, repeat, repeat, repeat; when you do that, that's the key, that's the secret, that's how you will develop, that's how you will get automatic speaking. Okay, so that's our rule today, the rule number 4: deep, deep learning, repeating everything a lot, repeat it many times.
Rule 5: Point Of View (Effortless Grammar)
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Hi, this is A. J. Hoge, director of Effortless English. Welcome to day 5 of the 7 rules of excellent speaking e-mail course.
Now, remember, before one of the other rules, I told you "do not study english grammar". Maybe you are thinking " oh my god, but, how do I learn the grammar, how do I use grammar correctly". Well, today I am going to tell you how to learn english grammar, without studiying grammar rules. Hmm that's a little tricky. How do we do that? Well, this is actually very simple, easy, powerful technique. And, research shows that this technique is the best way to learn grammar. English grammar, grammar for any language actually.
So, what is this technique? Well, it's called Point Of View Stories. Point Of View Stories or Point Of View mini stories. Mini means small. So, these are small stories. So, what is the secret of these stories? How do they teach you grammar? Well, what we do is: we tell the same story but we change the point of view. In other words, we change the time for example. Or we change the grammar somehow in the story.
Let me show you an example, very simple example. When I teach point of view stories, I teach a funny or short little story. And maybe the first time, i teach it in the present, it's happening now. So, for example, there is a boy. His name is bill. Bill goes to the store. He buys a bottle of water. He pays two dollars for the water. Ok, that' it. That's our little story right now. So, that was in the present. And all you need to do, just listen to it. Listen, listen, listen; Listen again, deep learning remember. You are gonna repeat it a lot of times.
Now, how do we learn grammar from the story? Well, next I tell the same story but now it's the past. There was a boy named Bill. Yesterday, he went to the store. He bought a bottle of water. He paid two dollars for the water. That's all. Now, in a normal story, in a normal point of view story, is longer and it is more difficult of course. In my lessons, my point of mini stories are longer and more difficult. But, this is an example, this is an easy example. So now, you got the present, you got the past. You listen the story in the past many times. Don't think about the grammar rules. You do not think "oh this is the past tense, oh paid is an irregular verb oh." No, no, no, don't think about that. Just listen to the story and understand the meaning. That's all you need to do. Listen to the first story, understand the meaning, Listen to the second story and understand the meaning that's all. It's easy, effortless grammar learning.
So, next i might tell the same story in the future. So, it is an imagine. Imagine it in the next year. Imagine, there will be a boy. His name will be Bill. He is going to go to the store. And he'll buy a bottle of water. He is going to pay two dollars for the water. So, that's the end of the short example in the future. So, what you do? You just listen to this little, easy story in the future. You listen to the past, you listen to the present, you listen to the future. And, I can do it again. I can practise any kind of grammar with this. For example, I might say, there was a boy. Since last year, he has gone to the store every day. He has bought a bottle of water every day. Everyday, since last year, he has paid two dollars for the water. So, you don't need to know the name of the grammar or the verb tense that I am using. It's called the present perfect. But you don't need to know that. I don't want you think about that. All you need to do is listen to the story. I am using the words to hep you understand the meaning. I say "since last year".
So now, you understand it, these changes, these verbs, they changes because something happened in the past and it's continue for a while. But you don't need to think about that. That's why the stories are easy and powerful. You just listen. You listen to story number one. You listen to story number two, the story number three, the story number four. And you learn the grammar like a native speaker, like a child. When you learn grammar like this, using these kind of stories it goes deep. You learn to use grammar automatically, quickly. You learn to understand it instantly, quickly, automatically. You don't need to think about the rules. Forget the rules. You don't need to know them.
You want to learn it automatically, the same way I learned english grammar. The same way all native speakers learn english grammar. Learn english grammar using these point of view stories. Your grammar, your speaking grammar will really improve quickly. And you will feel more relax. Because, you will start to use correct grammar automatically. You won't even think about it. You can stop thinking so much. You can just relax, listen and speak. Okay, these are powerful. Point of view stories to learn english grammar. Alright, that's the end of this rule.
Rule 6: Learn Real English
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Hi, this is A.J. Hoge, director of "Effortless English", and today we have rule number 6 to speak excellent English. What's rule number 6? Rule number 6 is to use real English materials. Only use real English materials. Now, before I told you: stop using text books. In fact I told you to throw away your text books. I told you to burn your text books. I hope you did it.
Alright. So now you have no text books. They're all burned up or in the trash. So what should you do? How can you learn now? Well, I want you to use real materials. What do I mean with real materials? Well, I mean English materials that are for native speakers or that are very similar to native speaker materials. For example, when you read, don't read text books. Text books are terrible things to read, you don't want to use those. If you want to read English, and reading is great, you should read easy English story books. Easy English novels. And in later e-mails, in some of my bonus e-mails, I'll tell you exactly how to do that and give you some suggestions for good books to read. But you wanna read easy English books that you enjoy. Imagine that! right? Pick something you enjoy, something that's interesting, maybe a romance book, maybe an adventure story. Something like that. It's easy, it's fun. That's the best kind of reading.
So, you know that you should focus on your listening. Your listening should be 80% of your learning. So what should you listen to? Same thing, you should listen to easy English that you enjoy, about topics that you enjoy. You should enjoy the speaker, you should enjoy their voice, you should enjoy their energy, you should enjoy the topics. So you don't want to listen to text book CDs, those are terrible, you know: - hello, how are you? - I'm fine, and you? Oh, terrible, terrible, terrible. You don't want to listen to actors, ok? do not listen to actors. Listen to people who are speaking more naturally. Just like these videos are good to listen to, actually. You can just practise by listening to me talk.
I also have a podcast. Podcasts are great. Now you can get on the Internet, you can find a lot of real English listening material. Podcasts are perfect. I have a podcast. You can go to effortlessenglish.lybsin.com and you can listen to me talking about English, talking about learning, talking about my ideas, and it's free, it's easy. You can just listen, listen, listen, a lot of real materials. I'm just talking, and I'm a real native speaker. I'm not acting. And there's a lot of other podcasts out there. You can pick, you know, English learning podcasts, but you can also pick a podcast about any topic you like. If you like sports, find English podcasts that talk about sports. If you like cars, find ones that talk about cars. If you like exercise or health, find podcasts about that.
You can also find audio books. Audio books are another great way to practise your listening. An audio book is just a book that someone's reading and they're recorded, so instead of reading the book, you listen to the book.
Again, choose audio books that are easy. You may need to start with children's story books. That's ok, you know. Enjoy them, it's more fun than a text book. I guarantee even listening to a story book is more interesting and more fun than some boring text book. As you get better, when your level is higher, you can listen to audio books for young adults or for older children. And you just keep listening, listening, and when it's too easy then you choose something a little more difficult and you listen, listen, listen more, a little more difficult, a little more difficult. Eventually, when you are advanced, you can listen to CNN or the BBC or American movies, British movies, Australian movies, etc. But that's at an advanced level. In the beginning start with easy stuff.
So you're always choosing these real things: audio books, podcasts, movies, TV shows (they can be children's TV shows, that's ok). Not text books and not text books CDs. This is so important, because when you listen to real English materials, you get real spoken English. Text books don't teach you real English, they teach you formal English. They teach you written English, in fact. The vocabulary in text books, the grammar, the style, it's all for writing. Even though you're listening to these conversations they're not normal conversations. But when you listen to real materials (audio books, conversations podcasts, anything that is real) that's the real English we use, Americans, Canadians, British, Australian, that's how we really speak. Those are the words we use in normal conversations. That's the pronunciation we use.
So, real English materials only, not text book CDs, OK? It's again a very simple, easy rule. And now we have the Internet, it's so easy to find these real materials. Just do a Google search. And if you keep getting my e-mails, you'll actually get more suggestions from me. I'll tell you how to find podcasts, how to find easy listening.OK. So that's rule number 6.
Rule 7: Listen And Answer Lessons
Listen And Answer Mini Stories
Hi, this is A.J. Hoge, the director of "Effortless English" and today is the last rule, rule number seven. And rule number 7 is very, very powerful. Rule number 7 helps you to speak quickly and to understand instantly, automatically, immediately. This is true fluency, true automatic speaking. So, what is rule number seven? Rule number 7, the last rule is to use listen-and-answer mini stories.
What are these mini stories, listen-and-answer, and why are they powerful? Well, first, remember in the past when you went to English school. In school you probably learnt with a lot of listen-and-repeat. For example, the teacher said: "repeat after me, class: hi, how are you?" and the class together, everybody said: "hi, how are you?". Then, the teacher said, "I'm fine, and you?". Then, all of the class together said, "I'm fine, and you?". This is listen-and-repeat. It's an old way to learn English. But it's not powerful. When you listen and repeat, you don't need to think in English, you don't need to think. You just repeat what the teacher said. Maybe you don't understand, but still, you repeat. That's an old way, don't do it.
Much more powerful is: listen and answer, especially listen-and-answer mini stories. These are special kind of stories where the teacher "asks" a story. Now, I do not say "tells" a story, I say "asks" a story. The teacher asks a lot of very simple and easy questions. Why? Well, because the student must answer questions constantly, constantly answering. Hearing a question, answering. Hearing a question, answering. This is like real conversation. When you use these listen-and-answer stories, you teach yourself to understand quickly and to respond quickly, to speak very quickly and automatically. No thinking. That's why these are powerful. You learn to think in English and you learn to speak quickly, without thinking, without translating.
Now, I will give you a very, very easy and simple example of a question-and-answer mini story. Just a couple of sentences. Now, imagine there's a short, little story. In the old method the teacher would say: "repeat after me", and the teacher says: "There was a boy, he went to the store, he bought a candy bar". And then the students repeat the story: "There was a boy, he went to the store, he bought a candy bar".
No. In listen-and-answer stories the teacher asks the questions, the teacher asks a lot of questions, very easy questions. We use easy questions because we don't want you to think. If I asked a difficult question, then you might stop and think, but if the question is very easy, you can shout an answer. One word, two words, ok. For example, I would say: "Class, there was a boy. Was there a boy?" And you shout "yes, yes". And I say "was there a boy or was there a girl?" And you immediately, instantly shout "a boy, a boy". And I say "Ah, so, there was a boy?" Again you shout "yes, yes, there was a boy". And I say, "Ah, I see, there was a boy. What was his name?" You don't know, so you guess "John", or "Jim", anything. You shout an answer. And I say "Ah, yes, his name was John". Was John a boy or was John a girl? And you shout "a boy, a boy". And then I continue, more questions, more questions. And because you are constantly answering questions, you learn to think in English, you learn to respond, to answer very very quickly in English.
These are very, very powerful. Now, of course, this example is very, very simple, supersimple. In my real mini story lessons it's... it's more difficult and much more interesting, and there are a lot more questions. And when you use these mini story lessons, you will learn to speak so much faster, so much more easily and automatically. This is very powerful. So, your rule number 7, absolutely very important: use listen-and-answer mini stories. Super, super important. Always do this.
And, of course, you can find a native speaker to make these stories for you. Show them this video and then they will understand how to do it. Or you can get my lessons. And, in fact, that is your next step, because now you're finished. You finished the 7 rules of effortless English. Congratulations. Now you need to use them, and you must use all of them so that you will learn much more quickly, so that you will understand English very quickly and so that you will speak English easily, quickly and automatically.
So, what's your next step? Well, first you wanna use all 7 rules. Every time you study English use all of the 7 rules. One very easy way to use the 7 rules is to get my effortless English lessons. I made these lessons to help you learn English quickly and easily and automatically, and my lessons use all of the 7 rules. I created these lessons using these rules, so they're very, very powerful. To get these lessons just go to the bottom of the home page. There's a big red button. Click the button to buy the lessons. And you can read all about them on the website, you get more details. Of course my lessons have vocabulary lessons, we have these mini story lessons, there are the point-of-view grammar lessons, and there's also text to help you understand, so that you can read and learn new phrases. So these lessons are very, very powerful. I encourage you to get my lessons. Start immediately. Start today. Because when you get the lessons we send you an e-mail, you click the link, you download the lessons immediately, you get them on your computer immediately. You can start right now, today, and I hope you will. Take action. Start learning English correctly. Start speaking English easily, quickly and automatically.
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