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Hi, I’m AJ Hoge, one of the teachers of Learn Real English And welcome to our video course

Now, let’s get started with Rule # 1 or Secret # 1 And Rule # 1 is to always learn English phrases, and to never, never study just individual words So in this course we’re going to teach you a totally new way to learn English, a totally new way to study English, so that you can speak English quickly, easily,

automatically, powerfully, confidently

So what’s the old way of learning English? You know it because you learned it in school You’ve been using it for years and years and years You sit in a classroom You’ve got a textbook You memorize lists of vocabulary words You study lots and lots and lots of grammar rules You do lots of reading and little fake conversation drills and activities And this is the traditional old way of learning English but we have a totally new and different way of learning it And we’re going to teach you each part of that, one part every day for a full seven days

So let’s start with Part 1, Secret 1, Rule # 1…learn phrases, not individual words Now, of course, a phrase is a group of words It’s a group of words that naturally go together This is very important You see, when you only study individual words, you are doing a number of things that make learning difficult Number one, when you study just an individual word like a vocabulary, something in a vocabulary list, or even in your notebook you write one single word and then you write the meaning or the translation, here’s the problem That word has no connections to anything else Therefore, it’s difficult for your brain to remember it

That’s why you have to keep repeating again and again You look at that list and you try to memorize it And then the next day you forget and then you go back and you try to memorize it again and again and again and again and again And maybe after a very long time you might remember it But most likely you’re going to forget it, especially long-term And yet that’s the way most students are learning English and studying vocabulary

Here’s another problem with just learning single words When you study just single words, you’re not learning any grammar But when you study phrases, you are actually learning grammar It’s kind of an effortless, easy way to learn grammar You don’t need to think about rules You don’t need to think about anything And yet, you will be learning correct grammar when you study groups of words instead of phrases

Let me give you an example of this Let’s just, y’know, take any phrase…like, um, a simple, simple

sentence He was a bad dog He was a bad dog Now, let’s imagine that you’re a new English student and the word bad is new for you Of course, I know you know it, but let’s just imagine you go way back to the very beginning and your first year of learning English and bad is a new word Now the normal way of studying that, you would write it down, bad, it would be in a little, y’know, a list And then you would study

bad means not good, bad means not good You’d probably translate it to your own language And then after lots and lots and lots of time, maybe you would remember it

Well using our system, you do something very different You would write down that whole phrase He was a bad dog That’s actually a full sentence Or you could just write down was a bad dog or he was a bad dog, whatever And then every single time you study or review, you would always, always, always study the full complete phrase You would never just study that word, bad You would study the whole thing

Now by doing that you’re getting free grammar How do you know? Well, because first of all you’re getting that verb, was, right? Was, and that’s just going to stick in your brain, he was, he was, he was You’re also learning articles You don’t need to remember what that means You don’t have to even worry about it And yet you know that it’s correct to say, in this situation, a bad dog He was a bad dog Some people say a, he was a bad dog Both pronunciations are correct So he was a bad dog He was

a bad dog

A lot of students have problems When do I use a, or a? When do I not? When do I use the? And you’re trying to memorize all these super complicated rules and situations for it Forget that It’s too complicated You’ll never remember it Just study phrases and you’ll start to feel when to use it, when it’s correct, when it sounds correct and when it sounds strange, when it’s not correct to use those things

And, of course, this is true for all grammar; all phrases; all vocabulary By studying a full phrase or even

a full sentence, always, always, always, you’re going to get lots of grammar You’re going to learn which vocabulary words go together naturally And you’re going to know when to use them in which situations Because sometimes, for example, there might be a situation where there are many words that mean the same thing And yet we typically use one of them

Like, we might say he was a bad dog That’s a common phrase, a bad dog, bad dog We use that word bad to describe a dog who’s naughty, who’s not good But we don’t usually say horrendous Now

horrendous means super super bad, really terrible And yet we don’t usually say he was a horrendous dog It sounds strange, even though the meaning is basically correct Yet, in normal real English, not textbooks, but real English, we just don’t use that word to describe dogs, not usually I don’t know why There’s no real rule about it It’s just that’s what we usually do And every language has these kind of word combinations that are more common, and other word combinations which just aren’t used typically How do you learn that? Well you can’t learn it from any rules because there are no rules about that You have to learn it by studying phrases always Always, always, always study phrases Review phrases Whenever you learn a new word don’t just write down that individual word Write down the full phrase, or even better, the full sentence that it’s in Always include the words that are around it This is going to

Even better, when you write down the phrase, also write down where the phrase came from to remind yourself of the whole situation So you might, let’s say you find a new word in a newspaper article Well first of all, let’s say the word horrendous You’re reading a newspaper article or you’re listening to the radio and you hear that word horrendous Hm, that’s new, what is that? And you write it down But you’re not going to write down just that single word

You’re going to write down the whole phrase that it was in And then you’re also going to make a note, you’re going to put down, y’know, this came from a newspaper article about the economy And this is going to trigger you, it’s going to remind you, give you a memory cue, a memory reminder, of the full situation So now you’re not only getting just this single word You’re getting the full phrase or sentence that it’s in and you’re also reminding yourself where that sentence came from What was the general topic, what was the general situation

And in this way you’re getting a lot of extra grammar which you’re learning unconsciously, easily You don’t have to think about it but you’re learning it anyway Your brain is learning it, even though you might not know that And you’re also learning when certain phrases and certain words are used and when they’re not used You’re learning which situations it’s used, or they are used in And you’ll, of course, know that in other situations you don’t use

Because as you learn more and more and more phrases, you begin to get this feeling of correctness And you begin to know when to use certain words, how to use them, and you’re also, how to use the grammar correctly as well

This is so important It’s such a simple, simple little secret, a simple little trick, a simple little rule And yet

it can totally change the way you speak English and learn English It’s very, very important So never, never, never study just an individual word, one word, always study the phrase or the sentence And always, always, always make a note where it came from And you want those phrases and sentences to come from real English, which we’ll talk about more later, not from textbooks

Here’s another advantage of studying phrases and full sentences and always knowing the situation that they came from Phrasal verbs, you guys know about them You know all about phrasal verbs that are a frustration for so many students, right? Y’know, to be knocked out or knocked up, have totally different meaning, right? Knocked out is a phrasal verb, it’s a two-word verb, it’s a verb phrase And to be

knocked out means to like, it’s like in boxing or sports, you get hit and ugh, it’s like you’re asleep, right? Boom, knocked out on the floor To be knocked up means to become pregnant We use that for women Now there’s no way if you just look at the individual words to know the meaning, right, knocked out,

knocked up It’s not logical You just have to learn each one individually

But if you just try to study lists and lists and lists of phrasal verbs, you’re going to become very confused You’ll start confusing one with the other You’re going to forget and it’s horrible and you don’t want to do that It’s not effective It doesn’t work But if you learn those phrasal verbs from real situations, real sentences, real articles, real audios, real speech, and then you always study them in the whole sentence

So then you know the situation, right?

If you, if you get the whole sentence, the fighter knocked out the other fighter And you’re always

studying that full phrase or sentence, the fighter knocked out the other fighter You’re going to just

naturally know Y’know, you’ve got that word fighter in there, helps you to remember the situation And it helps you to remember the meaning of that phrase, knocked out

Or you could say the woman got knocked up by her boyfriend, right? So now you’re like, ah yeah,

boyfriend, it gives you…it gives you a clue It gives you an idea of the meaning of that phrase And you’ll know that you always use that phrase in situations that describe pregnancy This is much better than studying lists and lists and lists of phrasal verbs

So what’s our first rule, what’s our first secret? Always, always, always study phrases, groups of words Always write down a note about where the phrase came from to remind you of the situation And no more, never again, study just individual words And that’s all That is powerful Secret # 1, Rule # 1 for learning to speak fantastic amazing English Start using this rule immediately today, okay?

We’ll see you tomorrow for Rule 2 Bye-bye

Hi, I’m Joe Weiss, and I’m one of the directors of Learn Real English And today I’m going to be teaching you Rule Number 2 for Excellent English Speaking

Okay, so what is Rule Number 2? Well Rule Number 2 is quite simple Rule Number 2 is do not study grammar rules Do not study grammar rules Now, I know this may be a surprise to you because your English teachers have always told you that you must study grammar rules In high schools or secondary schools, in universities, in language schools, the English teachers teach grammar, and then they teach more grammar, and then they teach even more grammar And that is the method you have used to study English

So now I have a question for you Have you been successful using that method? If you’re watching this video then you’ve studied English before That means you have probably studied a lot of grammar rules

So you need to ask yourself this question Can you speak English quickly, easily and automatically? If the answer is no, then you need to ask why not Why not? Because you have been studying English for many years

Why can’t you speak English quickly, easily and automatically? Well the answer for most people is

because they studied too much grammar But you are not to blame for this, no Your English teachers are to blame for this Because your English teachers made you study grammar I bet you hated studying grammar rules But you did it because your English teachers made you study them

Okay, so why is it bad to study grammar rules? Well, when you study grammar rules then you think about these grammar rules You think about the past perfect tense, the present perfect tense, the future perfect tense, prepositions You think about all these grammar rules before you speak And when you speak, you do not have a lot of time When you’re writing, you have a lot more time You can write

slowly You can correct your mistakes You can even look in a book if you need help When you’re writing, you have a lot of time But when you’re speaking, you do not have a lot of time

When you are speaking, there is no time to think about verb tenses and verb conjugations and definite articles, indefinite articles, adverbs There is no time to think about those grammar rules when you are speaking When someone asks you a question, they want you to answer that question immediately They don’t want to wait one minute while you’re thinking about grammar rules No, no, no

So that is why it is important that you not study grammar rules When you study grammar rules, then you think about those grammar rules before you speak And that means that you hesitate before you speak, and you speak much slower and you understand much slower

Okay, so how do native speakers learn grammar then? Well, I am an English native speaker and I can tell you that I never studied grammar rules when I was a young boy and I was learning how to speak

English When I was 3 years old and I was learning how to speak English, my mother and father never made me study grammar rules They didn’t do it So I still speak English very well and I use correct grammar And I never studied grammar rules Well, when I was 12 years old, I studied grammar rules in school, but that was for writing It was only for writing, it was not for speaking You do not want to study grammar rules for speaking For writing, it’s different

Okay, so how do native speakers learn grammar then? Well, they learn grammar through listening,

listening to correct grammar, again and again and again and again And when you listen to this grammar over and over again, it gets stored deeply in your brain Then, when it is time for you to speak, you will be able to use this grammar because you will know what correct English grammar sounds like

Okay, so the best way to learn grammar is through input So listening is one form of input, listening to correct grammar over and over again Now reading is another form of input And you can use reading also to learn grammar, but you won’t use it as much as listening Most of the time you will have listening

as your main form of input But if you do read, please do not read textbooks You should read easy English novels, maybe novels that a young child would read But most of your input will come from

listening

You will listen to correct grammar over and over again And this is how you will learn grammar This is how a child or a native speaker learns grammar And you do it quickly, easily and automatically without memorizing any grammar rules

Okay, so today we’re speaking about Rule Number 2 So tomorrow we will be sending you Rule

Number 3 But in Rule Number 5, I am going to tell you a powerful way for you to learn grammar Be it English grammar or the grammar for any other language And this is a very simple, powerful way to learn grammar And I promise you, it will not involve memorizing any grammar rules So I’m sure you’re happy about that

But the rule today is Rule Number 2 And Rule Number 2 is don’t study grammar rules Do not study grammar rules When you study grammar rules, you think about the grammar before you speak and then you hesitate before you speak You speak much slower and you understand much slower So if you have any grammar books, throw them away Bury them in your backyard You can even burn them But

if you do burn them, please be safe, okay?

Okay, so this is the end of Rule Number 2 I hope that you’re enjoying the 7 Rules to Excellent English Speaking course

We are really happy to have you with us And have a great day and I’ll see you next time Bye-bye

Hi, this is Kristin Dodds Welcome to Rule # 3 Rule # 3 is very simple It’s very easy and it’s very

powerful In fact, it’s the most important rule What is this rule? Well, Rule # 3 is the listen first rule What do I mean by listen first? I mean learn with your ears and not with your eyes So learn with your ears, not with your eyes Listen, listen, listen Ideally, you want to listen for six months or longer if

possible before speaking

Listening is the key to fluency Now why focus on listening first? Why learn with your ears and not with your eyes? With listening you will learn grammar You will learn vocabulary You will understand better and you will get faster There is a lot of research about listening first Listening is the most important thing you can do

If you learned English the way that I learned French, in middle school, high school and college, or

university, then you probably have problems speaking English, because in school you learned with your eyes For example, there was a focus on textbooks, on learning from textbooks You learned how to read English You learned how to write English You learned how to think about English So that you probably know a lot of grammar rules You probably know more grammar rules than a native English speaker

That’s because native English speakers don’t learn with their eyes They learn with their ears A baby doesn’t pick up a textbook and start studying grammar rules A baby does not learn with their eyes A baby learns with the ears by listening A baby learns by listening to the parents make sounds and speak

to them A baby just listens and listens and listens, for a year, a year and a half to two years, before they start speaking

So how must you learn English? You must learn English by listening first You must listen first if you want to speak English automatically, easily, quickly and correctly Now, there are two important things to remember with Rule # 3 The first thing is what do you listen to You want to make sure that you are listening to easy English So what do I mean by easy English? I mean that you want to be able to

understand 95% or more of the English you’re listening to without stopping or without using a dictionary

So, for example, you might listen to a children’s program Or you might listen to a children’s audio book Another book would be a children’s movie If these are too easy, then increase the level a little bit You could listen to a teenager’s program Now by teenager, I mean, in American years, teenager would 13,

14, 15, up to 19 years old So if a children’s program or audio book is too easy, try listening to a teenager program or audio book, teenager movie These are all examples of things that you can listen to for easy English

It is okay to listen to something that’s a little bit difficult if you have the text For example, if you’re

listening to an English lesson, as long as you have the text, that’s okay As long as you can read along,

that’s okay Another example would be an audio article Or a speech, as long as you have the text these things would be okay

Second, the second important thing I want you to remember is when do you listen You want to listen all the time So get an mp3 player or get an iPod and listen, listen, listen Listen all the time Listen on your way to work Listen on your lunch break Listen when you’re exercising Listen on your way home from work Listen in the evenings or before you go to bed Listen as much as you can

Now Rule # 3, listen first, it’s super easy and super powerful Focus on learning with your ears and not with your eyes Remember, it’s the most powerful rule

Okay, that’s all for Rule # 3 Tomorrow you’ll receive Rule # 4 so see you later See you next time Bye

Hi, I’m AJ Hoge, one of the teachers of Learn Real English Welcome to day 4 of our video course Secret # 4, Rule # 4 is this: learn deeply Learn deeply So what does that mean? Well, of course, deep,

if you think of water, like the ocean, deep means something goes down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, very, very far The opposite of deep is shallow, meaning does not go down far, it’s just a short little bit

So what does that mean when we’re talking about learning? Well, you need to think about like your mind, your brain So if you learn something deeply, the idea is that it goes deep, deep, deep It goes into your brain very far, meaning that it’s part of you You’ll never, never, never forget it You totally master it It becomes simple and easy and automatic That’s the idea of learn deeply

See, you need to think about speaking English like a sport You see, English learning, it’s not like math or science It’s not just something that you memorize It’s actually a skill that you need to use, right? You need to perform It doesn’t matter how much you remember What matters is can you do it when you’re talking in a real conversation Can you understand instantly and quickly what the other person is saying? When they ask you questions, can you understand the question instantly and respond, answer

immediately? When you speak, can you speak easily and automatically without stopping, without

thinking, without worrying about grammar rules, without all of those problems, without feeling nervous, right?

It doesn’t matter what you remember for a test What matters, what’s important is what you can actually

do in a real situation If you’re having a job interview in English, can you do it? Can you actually do it? It doesn’t matter what happens on the test What matters is when you’re facing that other person, how well

do you understand? How well do you speak? How relaxed do you feel? How confident are you? Right? That’s what you want

You want to actually be able to do it And that’s more like a sport And so you need to start learning English like you’re training, like you’re preparing for a sport And that’s why learning deeply is so

important

Let’s imagine this Let’s imagine, let’s say a basketball player Now basketball players, they have to be very, very good at the basics, the most important parts of playing basketball That is the most important thing If you ever watch interviews with the really great basketball players, the top ones, they will always say that the basic skills are the most important Now these guys can do very advanced, amazing things

But if you listen to these interviews, they always say that mostly what they practice are the basic skills, the basic skill of shooting They will practice that basic skill of shooting, shooting and shooting,

thousands and thousands and thousands of times Even though they are already one of the best in the

world, still every day they practice that basic skill again and again Or dribbling, which is bouncing the ball, right? And passing it, those super basic skills they continue practicing them forever

They practice those skills thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of times So that they never have to think about them, so during a game they just shoot They don’t think about their arm and what they do with their legs, no It’s so automatic They’ve practiced it so many times It’s so deep in their brain that they just do it It’s totally without effort, super easy, same with passing, same with

bouncing and dribbling

Well that’s what you need to do with English You need to have that same feeling that when you speak, there’s no effort, there’s no thinking It just comes out easily and automatically And the only way you do that is by focusing on deep learning It means you totally master something See, this is the problem in school In school, teachers and schools are always trying to make you go faster, faster, faster, more, more, more, more

You never learn anything deeply, right? They’ll teach you the past tense, for example And maybe you’ll practice it two, three, four weeks And then take a test And then you go to the next chapter and they teach you, y’know, the past progressive or, y’know, the present perfect, or some other verb tense And you study that one for a few weeks And then they teach you another one, and then another one, and another one

But you never really learn the past tense deeply And so you’re getting all these verb tenses and all this grammar and this vocabulary, but you never learn any of it deeply so that you can use it automatically without thinking It’s always more, more, more, faster, faster, faster That is the opposite of deep

learning

What you need to do is slow down and repeat more Repetition is the mother of skill, that’s a Tony

Robbins quote and I love it It means if you really want to be skillful at something, you really want to be able to do something well, you have to repeat it many, many, many times That means, for example, with the past tense, you need to hear that thousands upon thousands and thousands and thousands of times correctly so that it goes so deep inside you that you just feel it You know when it’s correct You know how to use it and you never have to think of it

Of course, when I speak English and use the past tense, I never think about grammar rules at all, or any verb tense I don’t think about them, because I’ve heard them so many times And especially when I was

a child nobody forced me to study advanced grammar rules Nobody confused me with that Instead I listened to lots of simple language, lots of simple basic language, basic sentences, basic grammar, from

my family for several years And I didn’t learn that advanced stuff until much later, until I had totally

mastered the basics