![]() ![]() Famous for training corporate and government leaders, A.J. ![]() HOGE, THE WORLD'S #1 ENGLISH TEACHER, teaches you his most powerful methods for learning to speak English fluently and confidently. Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like A Native A.J.Tomorrow you'll get the next e-mail: rule number 4. Learn with your ears, it's the most powerful rule. Please, do this, focus on listening, not on text books, not on learning with your eyes. OK? So it's simple, it's easy and it's super-powerful. ![]() That's your number 1 key: listen to podcasts, listen to my videos. Lots and lots and lots of English listening. Listen in the morning when you get up, listen when you go to work, or when you're at home, listen when you're at lunch, listen when you're coming home from work, listen in the evening. Get an i-pod, you know, get an MP3 player or an i-pod. But listening is the most important thing. an audio article or a speech, or a lesson's even, and you have the text, so you can read and listen at the same time. So that's also useful, you can get, errr. Now, if something's more difficult you can still use it, but you usually need the text, you need to be able to read it. You can listen to programmes for very small children. If that's too difficult, find something easier. Or maybe audio books for, you know, teenagers, like Americans who are 13, 14, 15 years old. Now, you might try children's programmes. So that's quite easy, right? You want a lot of easy English listening. What do I mean by easy? Well, you should understand 95% or more without stopping, without a dictionary. The most important thing is you must listen to easy English. So, let me be a little more specific about listening, because it's important how you listen and what you listen to. And that's what you must do if you want to speak English quickly, easily, automatically, correctly, just like a native speaker. Native speakers learn to speak English with their ears, by listening, listening, listening. In fact, you know more about grammar rules than most Americans, most Canadians, most British people, 'cause native speakers don't study that stuff very much. In school, basically, you learn with your eyes, and basically, in school you learn to write English. I'm sure this has been true for you also. Most English schools, middle school, high school, university, private English schools, most of them focus on text books in the classroom. ![]() Why? Because again, when you learned English in school you probably learned mostly with your eyes. So this tells us one reason you probably have some trouble with your speaking. There's a lot of research about this and it all shows the same thing: listening is the most important thing you can do. Listening is kind of the magic key to great English speaking. Listening, listening, listening and more listening is the key to speaking excellent English, it's the most important thing, because if you listen a lot, you're gonna learn vocabulary, you will learn grammar, you will get faster and you will understand better. Ok? If you want to speak excellent English, you gotta learn with your ears. 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. So rule number three is very simple, so easy, and yet very, very powerful. Hoge, the director of "Effortless English", welcome to Rule Number 3. ![]()
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