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Sunday, July 19, 2020
Rule 3: Listening English
Effortless
English Rule 3: Learn English Listening
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 my videos. I 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. Tomorrow you will get the next
e-mail. Effortless English Rule number 4. See you then. Bye, bye
