Rule 7: Listen And Answer Lessons

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Effortless English Rule 7: Use Listen And Answer Mini Stories

Hi, this is AJ. 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.

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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. I look forward to having you as my student and I will see you again soon. Bye-bye.

Rule 4: Deep Learning English

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 rpeat them again, you rpeat them again, you rpeat 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. So I will see you tomorrow for rule number 5. Have a great day, take care, bye bye.

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