7 Rules You Want to Know to Learn English Hi Aganers... (Do we have a better Name Club?

I found a nice article on the net about the rules we shouldn't forget in learning English. I found it pretty enough for me. So I think it may be helpful for you as well. Cheers :beer Quote:

Rule 1: Learn English Phrases

Hi, I am A.J.Hoge, The director of Effortless English. And Wellcome to the free seven rules e-mail course. Today is rule 1. Now, rule 1 is Learn English Phrases, Not Individual Words. This one just like the other rules, very simple, very easy. And like the other rules, this one is very very powerful. It's so simple, so powerful. 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. Ok, so that's rule one. Tomorrow, you will get a new e-mail with rule number two. So see you tomorrow. Bye bye. Ok, that's all the first lesson. I'll update later if you decide this post is usefull. And don't shy to leave a comment! Thanks. I'm sorry for late update, i've been busy lately... here is the second rule... Quote:

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. And I will see you next time. Bye bye Next tips gan, I'm very sorry for late update... Quote:

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. Tomorrow you will get the next e-mail. Rule number 4. See you then. Bye, bye. Lets move to the next rule.. :P Quote:

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. So I will see you tomorrow for rule number 5. Have a great day, take care, bye bye. "Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you." -Pablo Casals "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." -Paulo Coelho "To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets." -Paulo Coelho "When you drink water, don't forget the fountain." -Paulo Coelho "Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing." -Paulo Coelho "The best way to predict your future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln "True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked." -Erich Segal "A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." -Anon "The best mirror is an old friend." -George Herbert "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -Helen Keller "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -Chinese proverb

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