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Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, A.J.

Hoag, where A.J.'s more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

Here's A.J with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

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EffortlessEnglishClub.com Today's topic, the best method or methods for learning English.

What are the best methods for learning English?

And we're going to hear an expert opinion, not my own opinion.

We're going to hear from Dr. Stephen Krashen.

I'm going to play a short clip, a short quote from Dr. Krashen.

First, let me say welcome to everybody who's joining live.

So welcome, welcome to all our live viewers on Facebook.

We're live on Facebook. So welcome indeed.

People saying hello from many different countries.

Now, I'll get to your comments and questions later in the show.

Those of you watching live, relax.

I'll get to your questions and comments a little bit later.

Let's go now to our topic.

Dr. Stephen Krashen.

He's very famous.

He's famous in the language learning world.

He was a professor at the University of Southern California.

He's retired now, but he used to be a professor there.

Normally, I'm not very impressed by that.

But I have to say, he was a very good one.

And he was an expert on language acquisition.

Language acquisition.

That's what he called it.

Basically, language learning.

Same idea.

Now, Dr. Krashen liked to say these two words are a little different but for general purposes,

the general meaning is basically the same.

So he was an expert on language learning.

How do people, how do humans learn languages?

So how do people learn their own languages as babies?

And also how do we learn foreign languages?

And what are the best methods for learning languages?

What is the most effective, the most powerful method for learning a language, any language?

So he studied lots and lots and lots of languages and language learning.

He did lots of research and studied lots of different techniques for language teaching and language learning.

He wrote a few good books.

One book is called The Power of Reading, highly recommended.

and he wrote a lot of different research studies as well.

On this little clip, he's giving an interview

and he's talking about his own language learning and his research and what are the best methods.

What are the very best methods for learning?

Let's hear Dr. Krashen's opinion about that.

Here we go.

Those of you watching on video, that's Dr. Krashen on the left.

The good methods now are based on interesting stories where you fall in love with the story.

You get so interested in the story that you forget it's in another language.

Two methods do it.

TPRS invented by Blaine Rake, where this teachers and the students create the story together.

There's a lot of back and forth.

Okay.

So he says that the best methods use stories.

They are storytelling methods the best language teaching methods use stories.

And then he says something very interesting, something that I agree with completely.

He says the best methods,

the best storytelling methods, are the ones where that the story is so interesting or strange or funny that you forget,

as the student, you, you forget that you are learning a language.

Let's talk about that some more.

That the best language learning happens when you forget that you are studying the language.

How does this happen?

What is he talking about?

Because if we think about the traditional methods, the usual methods, the school methods, you never forget that you're learning the language, right?

You're sitting in a classroom and you're taking notes and the teacher's talking about, well, okay, so today we will do the,

you know, the past progressive in English and open your book to page,

you know, 75, and then you start taking notes and then you learn several rules for the present progressive, or the past progressive, sorry.

And then you might do some activities.

But it's very, very, very focused on the language, right?

The pieces of the language.

And you are completely aware, totally aware, that you are studying and analyzing this language, English.

You never forget that you're in English class.

You never forget that at all.

You're completely focused on that the whole time.

You're focused on the language itself.

Dr. Krashen says that the best methods, the most effective methods are story.

First of all, they use stories, number one.

And then number two, that as you are learning with these stories,

you start to forget, forget that you are actually learning the language.

In other words, the language learning happens unconsciously.

We might say subconsciously.

Another way we could say it would be intuitively or naturally.

That we're learning vocabulary and we're not even consciously aware that, oh, I just learned a new vocabulary word.

Or we're learning and improving our grammar, but we're not really even thinking about that.

We're not thinking, ah, now I'm studying grammar.

Now I'm learning grammar.

Now I'm learning the past progressive.

You're not even thinking about that.

You completely sort of forget that.

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Why?

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Because you are so focused on the story.

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You're so focused on the story.

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And what can even happen, this can happen, talk to our VIP members on Twitter,

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for example, excuse me, and they'll tell you that sometimes they will completely forget that they are listening to English.

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They're so focused on the story or the information that they're learning, that they're listening to, or even reading,

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that they completely forget that it's happening in English.

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They completely forget that they are doing this in a different language, not their native language.

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And that's when the learning is happening completely automatically, exactly what Dr. Krashen's talking about.

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So Effortless English, for example, I use a few different story-based methods.

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Number one are mini-stories.

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He mentioned Dr. Not Dr., I'm sorry, just Blaine Ray.

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Blaine Ray, a teacher in the United States, developed a storytelling method called TPRS,

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which I use that method and I've changed it a little bit.

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I've adapted it to my own approach but definitely it comes from Blaine Ray.

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And so my mini stories are teaching you English.

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In the mini stories, you are learning vocabulary.

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Even words that you may know already.

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You say, oh, I know that word but you can't use it.

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You're getting the repetition in the story so it goes deeper, deeper, deeper, so that vocabulary will become active.

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You'll start using it more when you actually speak.

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In those mini-stories, you are also learning grammar.

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You don't even realize it because I never talk about the grammar in the mini-stories.

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I never say, this is the simple past.

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Oh, now this is the future.

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Now this is the present perfect.

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I never talk about that.

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I don't want you to think about that.

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Exactly what Dr. Krashen said, I want you to forget about all of that, and I want you to learn those verbs,

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those verb tenses and conjugations,

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completely naturally, in an unconscious or intuitive way,

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because this is how native speakers learn, right?

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This is how, when I speak English, I never, ever, ever think about those verb tenses.

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Never.

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Not one time do I think, oh, this is the simple past, and how do I conjugate this verb?

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I never, never, never, never, never.

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And not only now do I never think about that, I never thought about that even when I was a small,

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small child still learning all of it.

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At no time in my life have I ever thought about verb conjugations or the names of verb tenses.

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In fact, until I became a teacher of English in graduate school,

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until then, I didn't even know the names of many verb tenses.

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and I guarantee right now you could go onto the street in the United States or Canada or wherever

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and you could ask people, you know, tell me, what is the future progressive tense?

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And many of them would not know.

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Many of them would have no idea what you're talking about.

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But of course, they would use that verb tense correctly when they spoke.

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so this is the difference and this is what dr krashen is saying is

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that the storytelling methods are powerful because you learn grammar in this natural way

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because you learn vocabulary in this natural way

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because you learn pronunciation in this natural way another type of story method

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or lesson are called point of view stories and this is basically where we just change

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the point of view of the story.

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The simple example, the one I use the most, is just that we change the time.

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So I'll tell one story happening right now.

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So of course it's going to use mostly like the present and the present progressive tenses.

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Then I'll tell the exact same story, but we imagine it was in the past now.

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Oh, 10 years ago.

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And then I tell the same story, but 10 years ago.

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So, of course, all the verbs are going to change.

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They're going to be different using simple past and maybe present perfect and maybe some other ones.

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You don't need to think about that as the learner, as the student.

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You don't need to think about that at all.

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You just have to understand the story, understand it's happening in the past.

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And I use lots of little phrases and words to remind you, like 10 years ago, in the past, there was a boy.

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he went to the store he went 10 years ago right

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so you get this in it's in the past

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and then I might tell the same story again the exact same story

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now we're imagining it happening in the future

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and again of course all the verbs the grammar will change again

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you don't have to think about it you don't need to remember the names of the verb tenses

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you don't need to remember and analyze all of the different kinds of grammar.

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Not necessary.

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Just like Dr. Krashen saying, instead, you're going to learn through the story,

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through the situation, what's called the context, it's the situation of the story, to help you understand this grammar,

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this vocabulary, this pronunciation, all of it, naturally, intuitively.

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kind of unconsciously.

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And, you know, the other cool thing about these storytelling methods is that it's more enjoyable.

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It's more enjoyable to listen to a silly, funny story, or even a serious story,

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than to try to memorize 10 different grammar rules.

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Right?

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That's boring.

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Memorizing grammar rules is boring, boring, boring.

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listening to a funny, even a silly story is much more enjoyable.

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So it's emotionally more enjoyable, which means you'll do it more often, which is another reason it's effective.

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What's another type of storytelling method?

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Well, the movie technique.

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I have a whole long YouTube video about this, very detailed, where I talk about the movie technique.

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basically it's using pieces of movies or television shows to learn English again why is it powerful?

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Because you're learning through the movie.

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So again, you're focused more on the story.

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You're focused more on what's happening to the characters.

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So again, you learn the vocabulary and the grammar and the pronunciation automatically, intuitively.

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Again, hopefully, you mostly forget that you're learning English.

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You mostly forget that you're studying

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and you get focused more on the story that's happening in the TV show or the movie.

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Another type of storytelling method is what I call interactive lessons.

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And this is where I'll use, often I'll use something nonfiction.

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So it's not exactly a story, but it's information, right?

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So it's an article or an essay about some interesting topic.

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Maybe some self-help topic, maybe about how to be a better leader.

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Maybe about how to be persuasive.

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Maybe how to make money.

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Our book club, for example.

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And then I'll use techniques where I ask lots of questions to get a lot of repetition of vocabulary

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and key important grammar.

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And again, you learn the vocabulary and the grammar in a more intuitive,

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more natural way where you can just forget about studying really hard.

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You can forget about trying hard to memorize.

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I must memorize.

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I must memorize.

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You don't need to do that with these storytelling methods.

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Not necessary.

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Not at all necessary.

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Now, there's another cool thing about stories and storytelling methods.

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They help memory.

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They're much easier to remember.

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that means the vocabulary and the grammar inside of the story are also easier to remember.

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Why is that?

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Well, because a story, you know, a story is kind of like a complete whole, and it's emotional.

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And it's, you know, if it's a good story, it's also visual.

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You can imagine what's happening in your mind, right?

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You'll see images.

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You might even can imagine the sounds.

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Sometimes for a good story, you can imagine the smells even.

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So it's using several different senses, right?

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And then there's usually an emotional part.

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Now, that might be humor.

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It might be a little bit funny.

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It could be sad.

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It might even make you angry or upset or frustrated, which actually all of those things are good for memory.

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Any strong emotion, any emotion at all, in fact,

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even if it's a weak emotion is good for memory you remember things when they are emotional you remember them better

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if you have two experiences

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one experience creates a strong emotion

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and the other experience no emotion

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you are more likely to remember the emotional experience for a much longer time even if it was negative

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even if it was negative.

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If it was positive, even better.

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And this is something that stories naturally have.

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I mean, that is the point of mini stories is to create some kind of emotion during the stories.

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In my mini stories, usually I use humor.

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So they're kind of funny.

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They're very exaggerated.

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Sometimes I use animals as topics, which makes it more strange and more funny.

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not all of my stories are funny but many of them are very silly

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but that's so they'll be more memorable so you remember them more easily

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and again you'll be focused more on this story being silly

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and funny and you'll just kind of start forgetting

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that you are also learning vocabulary and grammar and pronunciation i'm doing all that for you right as the teacher i'm

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designing the stories to teach you these things automatically.

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But as the learner, you don't need to think about them.

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You can just enjoy the story and repeat it again and again and again many times.

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And then you will automatically learn all of this without the pain, without the memorization, without the tests, without all of that.

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That's why they're so, so, so powerful.

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related to this connected to this is this idea of vocabulary learning and reading because this is a

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question i get from more advanced students maybe high intermediate level

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frequently asked me what's the best way to improve my vocabulary how do i learn more words

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and i always say read books read books read books read books i i say this answer probably 10 times every week.

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Somebody asked me this question and I give the same exact answer every single time.

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Read books.

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Why?

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Again, they're stories because most of these books are stories and they have all of the advantages of stories.

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So learning to speak, I teach you with stories, verbal stories, right?

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Audio stories where you're listening to the stories.

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But just to increase your vocabulary to get a lot more vocabulary, reading stories are also excellent.

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So you can read books.

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Again, because they're stories that are more powerful than getting a book full of vocabulary words.

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A lot of people do this.

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They get some book, the 5,000 top vocabulary words in English, and they try to go through and memorize 5,000 words from this book.

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That is crazy because, number one, it's hard work.

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Number two, it's really super boring.

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There's no real context, right?

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These words are not naturally connected to each other.

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They're just in some big list.

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Maybe they have an example sentence or something, but it's still a terrible way to learn vocabulary.

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There's definitely no emotion at all like a normal story would have.

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And you definitely do not forget that you're learning English.

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No, you very much remember you're learning English because you're so bored trying to remember this long list.

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On the other hand, when you read a storybook, let's say you read a Hardy Boys book.

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That's not too difficult for you.

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So you start reading the Hardy Boys book.

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It's a mystery book.

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And very quickly, you're focused on the characters.

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You're focused on the action.

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What's happening in the story?

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Oh, there's a mystery.

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Oh, there's a ghost.

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Oh, what's happening?

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And then you start to feel some emotions connected to the story.

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Maybe there's a little danger for the characters, the hardy boys, the heroes.

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And, you know, very soon you forget that you're learning English.

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You're actually learning new words because you're seeing new words.

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Maybe you're quickly using an electronic dictionary.

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You quickly look up a new word and you look, oh yeah, and you keep going.

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But you don't try to memorize it.

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You just see it, oh, okay, and then you keep going.

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And then you see it again, you forgot again, you tap that word.

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You see it again, the definition, and then you keep going.

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And you keep doing this.

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And eventually you'll find maybe by the middle of the book, now you remember that word.

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You've learned that word with no pain, with no super effort, just by reading this big story,

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this storybook in print, about that big, you know, a couple inches.

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And so mostly you're just enjoying this entertaining story and yet by the end of the book,

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you will have, you will have, oh, someone's at my door, delivery, I guess.

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By the end of the book, you will have learned a lot of new vocabulary words.

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You won't even realize how many you've learned, but you will have learned a lot by the end of that story.

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Also, you definitely won't realize that your grammar has improved, but it will.

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Why?

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Because by reading that whole book again and again,

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in every single sentence, you are seeing an example of correct grammar in a full natural situation.

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And with all that repetition from that reading, you will just start to naturally learn,

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intuitively, automatically learn, better grammar, better sentence structure.

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Painlessly.

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In fact, you'll probably eventually become a fan of the Hardy Boys.

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You'll get another book and another book and another book.

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There are many.

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And soon you'll just completely forget that you're doing this to learn English.

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You're just reading these stories and enjoying them.

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And your English is also improving at the same time.

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You will have achieved what Dr. Krashen is talking about,

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which is completely forgetting about the language learning and yet learning the language very well.

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That's the goal.

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That's always my goal as your teacher in my courses.

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My goal is always to try to get you to forget that you're learning English while you are learning English.

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So that you're learning in the most powerful way, but at the same time, you're kind of forgetting about it, mostly.

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Now, can I do this 100% every time?

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No. Sometimes you'll realize it.

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Sometimes you'll realize you're learning.

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And sometimes you'll focus on the language a bit.

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but I do my best to get close to that goal, to make it as enjoyable and as powerful as possible,

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to achieve what Dr. Krashen is talking about, where you are learning super quickly and powerfully,

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getting great results, and at the same time enjoying it and kind of forgetting that you're doing it.

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It's really cool when this happens.

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It's really fantastic.

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That is the power of storytelling methods,

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And that's why Dr. Krashen says that the best methods of language teaching and language learning are storytelling methods.

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And I agree with him 100%.

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And that's why I use stories in my lessons as well.

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All right.

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Question time.

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I'm going to go to Twitter for a minute and answer one or two Twitter questions.

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And then Facebook folks, Facebook viewers, I will come back to you.

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But let's look at Twitter.

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Don't want to ignore Twitter.

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Let's go to Twitter.

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Twitter.

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All right, my Twitter.

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Ah, Sergey.

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Write it from the beginning.

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Sergey has a good comment that I want to share with you.

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So Sergey says, is giving advice to someone on my Twitter.

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My Twitter is AJ Hogue, by the way.

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Those of you watching, let me put it on the screen.

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It's just at AJ Hogue is my name.

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Add it on here.

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There you go.

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Okay.

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So my Twitter is AJ Hogue.

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That's where you ask me questions.

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And recently, today, on Twitter, I was telling everyone, I'm telling you now,

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you must listen to my audio podcast.

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Subscribe to my audio podcast, the Effortless English podcast.

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Why?

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Because over half of the Effortless English show is only audio.

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If you are watching my videos, only watching my videos on YouTube or on Facebook, you're missing half the show.

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Okay?

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You're missing half of it

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Because I have a lot of the shows are just audio.

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I only do audio, no video.

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That's more than half of my shows are audio only.

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So video watchers of the show, be sure to also get the audio podcast.

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Very important.

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You're going to get a lot more English audio, a lot more of the Effortless English show on the audio podcast.

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and so I put that on Twitter

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and then I had a few questions how do I get the audio podcast? how do I get it?

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and it's very easy as Sergey gives us the answer right here

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he says install a podcasting app on your phone or wherever,

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any device then on the podcasting app it'll have a search function a search line,

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a search area in the search area just put effortless English podcast, Effortless English.

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Even just Effortless English is probably enough, but Effortless English podcast.

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And it will come up.

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You'll see my podcast with my face. And just subscribe then.

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Then you subscribe.

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And after that, it's automatic.

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After that, every new Effortless English show will come into your device, will go to your phone automatically.

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You'll get every one, including and especially the audio-only shows.

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So don't miss the audio-only shows.

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Now, I already know the next question because people ask it all the time, which app, which app, which app should I use, AJ?

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It doesn't really matter, honestly.

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Any podcasting app is fine, okay?

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So you can decide, but I'll give you a couple choices here.

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Okay, one is called TuneIn.

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I'm going to put it on the screen if you're watching.

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TuneIn.

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TuneIn app.

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It's right there.

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Over on the right side.

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TuneIn.

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They have apps for all different devices.

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Apple, Android, Blackberry, Windows.

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Doesn't matter.

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TuneIn has an app.

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So go to your app store for your device, you know, Google Play, whatever, and tune in.

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It's all together one word, T-U-N-E-I-N, tune in.

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Search the apps.

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You'll find it.

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Boom, install it.

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It's free.

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After it's installed, what do you do?

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You search for Effortless English Podcast with A.J.

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Hogue.

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You'll find it.

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Subscribe.

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Done.

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now you'll get every single audio.

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Some people say, oh, I can't find the TuneIn app.

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Well, there are many other apps you can use.

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If you have an Apple device, just use iTunes.

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It's the easiest one.

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Okay, mine is one of the top education podcasts on iTunes, so it's easy to find.

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So iTunes for Apple users, easy.

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Android users, there's so many different podcasting apps.

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One that a lot of people use is Podcast Addict,

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A-D-D-I-C-T Addict, like addiction podcast addict is very popular and you can find the Effortless English show,

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the Effortless English podcast is on

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that app also all of these apps are free they're easy to install

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so just get a podcasting app whichever you choose get your favorite one, I think Spotify, that's another popular one

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so just it doesn't matter podcasting app search for effortless english podcast subscribe three steps

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and then automatically you get every single audio every single show

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and my audio shows are they're quite different actually some of my audio only shows are i talk about culture

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i talk about my travels.

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They're more casual.

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They're less focused on just English learning,

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just education and business, and much more range, right?

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Meaning many more different kinds of topics on the audio podcast.

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I'll talk about food.

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I'll talk about American culture.

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I'll talk about my life, my travels, anything.

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People suggest lots of different things.

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I have a big, long list of topics to talk about.

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Yesterday I talked about bugs and my nephew.

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So if you want to get a lot of different topics and therefore a lot of different vocabulary in English, audio podcast, guys.

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You got to subscribe to that.

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You must.

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All right, let's go to Facebook now.

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Okay.

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My answer to this one already is, I feel your pain.

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I feel your pain.

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Shabby Duncan says, I live in Scotland.

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I have lived in Scotland for almost six years.

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I arrived here.

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When I arrived here, my English was basic.

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I thought I could improve it, but I can't speak fluently.

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I need to learn more vocabulary.

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It's so difficult to understand the natives.

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Hmm, yeah.

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So, number one, you're dealing with Scottish English, which means you're dealing with the Scottish accent,

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which is famous for being difficult, okay?

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I mean, Americans, I don't know where in Scotland, there are probably different kinds of Scottish accents,

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I'm guessing, but in general, you know, let's say for Americans, that a strong

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Scottish accent can be very difficult even for us to understand.

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You know, I've seen some movies with actors using a strong

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Scottish accent and I have to focus a lot to understand what they're saying because if I don't focus, I'll miss some of it.

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Okay, that's, I'm a native speaker, okay?

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So the other problem is they have their own slang and their own idioms, right?

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So this is these, a lot of idioms and slang.

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People say, I want to learn, you know, English idioms, English slang.

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But the truth is, it's not just for the whole English language.

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A lot of slang, a lot of idioms are, depends on the culture.

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So British slang is different than American slang.

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And even inside of culture, there's slang that's used only by certain groups.

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So some slang might be used mostly by teenagers.

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Other slang might be used more by, you know, certain races.

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Some slang is used more in, you know, one part of the country and not the other.

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This all makes it more difficult.

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So, you know, you're in Scotland, so you've got that strong

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Scottish accent possibly you're dealing with.

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They're probably dealing with Scottish idioms and slang, also challenging.

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And then, of course, there's the normal problem of speed and all those things.

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So what you're going to have to do, what I recommend to you is to get some

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Scottish movies or TV.

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TV is okay too.

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But specifically to use my movie technique, check out my YouTube channel.

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AJ Hoag is my YouTube channel.

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It's also my name.

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Okay, I'm going to...

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A.J.

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Hoag.

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I'm going to stick it up there on the screen again.

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That's also my YouTube.

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So go there.

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I've got a video called Movie Technique.

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Movie Technique.

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Watch all of that video.

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Okay?

495

And then use that technique.

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But using the technique, use it on Scottish television shows or Scottish movies or both.

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only Scottish right so pick ones that have strong

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Scottish accents and then you're going to go through a movie

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or a whole TV series it's going to take you a long time it's a slow method

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but it's powerful and it works and it will help you a lot so use that movie technique with Scottish material

501

Scottish audios

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and videos this is the way you're going you'll certainly improve your vocabulary you're going to start to learn some of those

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Scottish idioms and slang if you have Scottish friends.

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You can ask them the meaning in the movies or the TV shows you're using.

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You might have some idioms you have no idea what they mean.

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You can't find them online.

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Ask a Scottish person, what does this mean?

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So in this way, you're going to start learning that

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Scottish English much better.

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Good luck to you.

511

All right, back to questions here.

512

so okay so this is the uh the ever the battle here now uh

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so alibi saying that i was listening to your podcast you mentioned some people said

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that my podcast was too long too much especially the audio podcast i add a lot of stuff there um

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but i want you to make as much as possible

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so see like you can't please everybody is the point

517

so now i've made it a little shorter

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and other people say ah i want more give us longer

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and then i made longer and other some other people complain oh give us shorter

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so there's you can't make everyone happy i'll probably do about like i said

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i've decided i'm gonna for now i'm going to do about somewhere between 40 minutes to one hour total per day.

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In general, that's my goal.

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Now that's audio plus video.

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So if I do a 30-minute video, then that means I'll also do about a 30-minute audio or 20-minute audio.

525

Today I'm only doing the show live on video, but the cool thing is audio listeners, they get everything.

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Audio listeners get everything because I'm recording this live, of course, on Facebook, but I also record it.

527

So the audio from every show is added to the podcast.

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So you can always listen.

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Listeners get 100% every single show.

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Video watchers only get about half.

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Aha!

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Here we go.

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Someone already took action.

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There's fast action.

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Podcast subscribe.

536

Thanks a lot, AJ from Kya Suar.

537

Sorry if I mispronounced your name.

538

It looks Burmese is my guess.

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Myanmar.

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Make long and short everybody happy.

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How do I do that?

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Make it longer.

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Now I'm getting comments lots of people wanting longer.

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and then some people like watching live video

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and some people watching audio now i do do

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that i'll be mixing video uh especially now now here's the issue

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i recently i talked about this yesterday in my audio podcast telling

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you know kind of talking about the advantages of audio

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and i mentioned yesterday on my audio podcast only audio i mentioned that i'll be traveling soon probably,

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well, soon, sometime like into this year or something, but possibly traveling for a while, for several months.

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And that when I travel, it's much more difficult for me to do video.

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And when I travel, it's almost impossible for me to do live video.

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Live video like this requires a fast internet connection.

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If the internet connection is slow, you already saw this happen probably.

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this the video breaks it breaks

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it breaks the sound is terrible too many problems can't i just can't do live video with a bad connection and

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when i'm traveling i usually have bad connections

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i'm using wi-fi in hotel rooms sometimes in coffee shops usually it's just not very fast

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and so when i start traveling unfortunately i can't do the live videos like this

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When I travel, I'll do some recorded video, but even that is hard sometimes because video has big files, big, big files.

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So even sometimes if just recording the video, if I try to upload it, add it to YouTube, for example,

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if my connection is slow, it takes forever, and then it just stops and it fails.

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so even recorded video sometimes does not work well when I'm traveling

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but the magic of audio is that the files are small small files

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so it's easy for me to do audio anywhere

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I don't need a camera I don't need good lighting

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it doesn't matter I have a little audio recorder I can just carry about the size of a cell phone.

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And I can do it when I'm walking around.

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I can do it anywhere, and then I can just upload it to the podcast very easily.

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And the files are fairly small, so usually it's no problem, even with a bad connection.

571

So that's why when I travel, the show will probably become much more audio and much less video.

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When I'm at home, I'll do a mix of both.

573

Oh, this is interesting.

574

Antonio says, why is it easier for me to understand my Brazilian teachers speaking English but difficult to understand the natives?

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A couple possibilities.

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One guess is you're just used to their accent, right?

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Because if you have probably, I'm guessing, you have been listening to Brazilian teachers mostly, right?

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Like in school.

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So most of your English teachers were Brazilian.

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So you're used to their accent.

581

You're used to their pronunciation.

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So when you listen to a native speaker, the pronunciation is actually different.

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And you're not used to it.

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So it's a little more difficult to understand.

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That's possibility number one.

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another possibility might be speaking speed.

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It's possible that your Brazilian teachers are speaking more slowly and

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that the native speakers you listen to might be speaking more quickly.

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So I would recommend, however,

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that you need to fix this because I'm guessing you want to use English with non-Brazilians because as a Brazilian, you can just speak

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Portuguese to other Brazilians, so you don't need English.

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So if you're going to use English, you're going to be talking to people who are not Brazilian, probably.

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So that means you definitely need to understand those native speakers.

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So you probably just need a lot more practice.

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You know, my podcast is a good one to use because I don't speak too fast, too quickly, and I don't use a lot of slang.

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I don't use a lot of So you can use my podcast.

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You can use my courses if you want to find other podcasts.

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You can use my movie technique that I mentioned before.

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And, you know, with time that you'll get used to these native speakers,

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their pronunciation, their accents, and it'll seem easier to you.

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So it just takes a little time.

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Okay, here's a really long one from Emmanuel.

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I need a second to read this one.

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Okay, so long one from Emmanuel today.

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Hey, Emmanuel, again, this one's going to cover my face on the video.

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All right, my question.

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I've been told by my cousin to ask you this question.

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Aha, he's been listening to your podcast.

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He reads a lot of philosophy books.

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For remembering the definitions of new words, he uses an app called Quizlet, which is similar to Anki, space repetition.

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Right.

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Yes, indeed.

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Now, what do you recommend?

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Is there another way to remember definitions, such as with physical movement?

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Using your body to remember.

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Yes, my Power English course uses,

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it's called TPR, Total Physical Response there is a whole system of teaching and learning languages that uses physical actions.

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It's especially good for vocabulary.

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You can actually teach or learn a little bit of grammar with it, in fact.

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But it's especially good for vocabulary.

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However, it's best with vocabulary that is what we say concrete, real, right?

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So this is a cap.

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This is a lens cap.

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Concrete means I can touch it, right?

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It's physical.

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It's real.

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So that kind of vocabulary, physical things, real things, are really easy to learn with physical actions.

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Also, actions, of course, verbs are very easy to learn and remember using physical actions to remember them.

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However, a possible challenge or weak point of actions are things that are not concrete.

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So, for example, philosophy, vocabulary might be hard to learn with physical actions.

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You could possibly do it if you became creative to connect some action to the philosophical idea.

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But a lot of philosophical ideas could be very, very, very challenging.

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But I don't know.

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Like, I'll give you a Buddhist one.

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Equanimity.

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Equanimity.

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Equanimity.

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What does equanimity mean?

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It comes from the word equal.

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So equanimity means that you react equally to all things.

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So it's the idea of being calm, right? that you don't get upset by anything.

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Something bad happens, you remain calm and peaceful.

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Something good happens, you remain calm and peaceful.

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You have equanimity.

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So how could you remember the meaning of this word?

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Well, maybe you could connect it with an action, like you could do this with your hands, which is like a hand symbol of meditation, right?

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So you could kind of put yourself in that position of meditation and say equanimity, equanimity, equanimity, reminding yourself of the meaning.

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So you could try to do something like that, and that physical action, that physical gesture might help with remembering.

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On the other hand, you could just not worry about it at all.

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Just keep reading lots of books.

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So instead of spending lots and lots and lots of time with some space repetition thing,

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or even lots of time with physical actions, just read more books.

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And when the words come, highlight them maybe in an e-reader.

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tap them maybe to see the definition on the e-dictionary.

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Kind of maybe take one second, kind of, you know, okay, yeah, I mean, equanimity means equal, calm, right?

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Got it.

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And then just keep reading.

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Just keep reading.

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And then a few pages later, you see the word equanimity again.

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And you can't remember, what is that again?

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And you tap it again, highlight it again.

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Ah, equanimity.

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All right.

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And then you keep going.

665

And third time, fourth time, fifth time, maybe by the 10th time, you'll start to remember it

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without any space repetition

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because the space repetition is happening actually

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it's happening from the book the book is naturally giving

669

you the space repetition automatically according to the importance of the word in the book

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if the word is very important to the book

671

to the ideas of the book then it's going to be used a lot more in the book usually,

672

naturally therefore you get a lot more repetition therefore you learn it faster

673

So, and this is, again, this is what Dr. Krashen talks about a lot, is that the power of reading.

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You can get his book, The Power of Reading.

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And Dr. Krashen recommends basically what I'm recommending here, which is don't even waste your time trying to review too much.

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Just quickly look at the word.

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You can even just guess.

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Sometimes you just guess, like as a native speaker in English, I just guess the meanings most of the time.

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Occasionally, I will highlight that word or click on that word see the meaning, uh-huh, and then keep going.

680

Of course, I forget it usually, but then after I do this several times,

681

reading through a book, I'll see those same words again and again and again, and by the end of the book,

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I've learned most of them without any need for this kind of, you know, apps or anything like that.

683

Okay.

684

well the law is basically asking about homeschooling here why don't they close schooling

685

and let us learn at home like they do in japan learning online

686

they do there are people who do that in japan it's i'd say america i think is number one in homeschooling, which is better for everybody.

687

Yeah, I agree.

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100% I agree.

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Now, he's talking about, I think, learning online with the actual teachers teaching through the internet.

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I mean, like basically what I do.

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That's one kind of homeschooling.

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We call it homeschooling in America.

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Homeschooling or home learning.

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It's really home learning because it's not school at all.

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It's actually non-school.

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It's anti-school.

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It's really home learning or home education is a better word, but people call it homeschooling is the phrase that became popular.

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I think home education is a much better word.

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But anyway, I 100% support the idea of home education.

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I will be doing more shows in the future about home education, homeschooling, home learning, because I believe it is the best,

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absolute, 100% best way for anyone to learn, child or adult.

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I 100% agree with you.

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Now, there are so many ways to do homeschooling.

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Okay, this is probably the most traditional way because this really is homeschooling,

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what you're talking about, which is you still have a teacher, You still have the normal classroom.

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Everything's the same, but basically the teacher teaches to a camera, like I'm talking to you now,

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and the students are at home watching or listening on their computers or phones.

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That's, excuse me, let's talk distance learning.

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A lot of universities, a lot of colleges do this in America.

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In fact, there are schools, University of Phoenix, I think is the biggest one,

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that are almost 100% online distance learning schools, universities or colleges.

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So it's become very popular with universities and colleges in America, this distance learning.

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Now, this is still very traditional.

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You're still paying your money to the school or the university, right?

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Large amounts of money, usually.

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And you're still getting grades, and there's still tests, and it's all kind of structured pretty similar to normal schooling

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but the good part is you can do it from home and relax more.

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So that's nice.

719

Now, there are, I think, even better ways where you are much more independent.

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So instead of joining a college or a university, you pick and choose, you decide, you find the teachers you want.

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You don't have, the school doesn't tell you, oh, you have to register for the class, you have to take this class.

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You don't do that you just say, oh, I want to find somebody I like.

723

I mean, you're doing that with me right now, right?

724

Nobody forced you to listen to me.

725

No one forced you to get my courses.

726

No one forced you to subscribe to my podcast.

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You found me and you tried and then you like it and you like my way of teaching.

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You like my podcast.

729

So you subscribed.

730

You're the boss.

731

You are the boss.

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It's independent learning happening online.

733

That I think is much better because you are the boss and you learn better when you are the boss.

734

And children also learn better.

735

Now, as they need their parents to guide them and coach them, especially at young ages, of course, obviously.

736

But as they get older, with homeschooling and independent learning, they will become more and more and more independent and active,

737

and they will become the boss of their own learning too.

738

It's very impressive, very powerful.

739

Great stuff, man.

740

I love it. So excellent comment.

741

I'll take one more and then time to go.

742

All right.

743

Just looking through the questions.

744

Takes me a second to read them.

745

Ah, this is a good comment.

746

I like this comment.

747

So Barry says, Hi, Jay.

748

Just wanted to say hello from Hungary.

749

I always listen to your podcast and chats when I ride my bike in the forest.

750

And this is the most perfect way of spending time for soul and for the body.

751

Thanks and regards.

752

Thank you.

753

And I 100% agree.

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I highly, highly, highly.

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This is such a great thing.

756

I highly recommend doing this.

757

It's so simple.

758

It's such a simple way to energize yourself while you're learning.

759

You know, in my Power English course, the whole beginning of that course, is really, I'm teaching you how to get that emotional power,

760

get that energy, so you're not just sitting and listening to the course, you know, getting sleepy and tired.

761

No. People ask me, how do I do this?

762

You know, I teach you some specific ways, some very powerful ways in the Power English course, but one of the easiest ways to do this,

763

to keep your brain awake, and therefore learn better, better concentration,

764

better energy, everything better, is just to move your body while you're listening to English.

765

I mean, this is the opposite of school, right?

766

In school, you sit in your chair at school, and then after a few minutes, you start leaning back and, right?

767

Or leaning forward, putting your head on the desk.

768

Or you're leaning back, you're sinking lower and lower, your energy drops.

769

Or if you're sitting at home, if you just sit in a room alone at home, listening to English, same thing is going to happen.

770

I guarantee it, right?

771

And as your body gets lower, as your body stops moving,

772

the energy in your body will naturally drop.

773

It just happens.

774

It's natural.

775

This is just a physical, mental reaction.

776

Okay?

777

The less you move your body, typically, the less energy it has, especially when you use these postures as body language,

778

where you're kind of sitting back, your shoulders are down, your head starts getting down, you're listening, but then guess what happens?

779

As the physical energy drops, then the mental energy drops.

780

You start losing your concentration.

781

Your mind gets a little sleepy, a little cloudy.

782

Your mind gets a little tired.

783

And then your listening is not so sharp.

784

You're not focused so well.

785

And therefore, you learn less.

786

You learn more slowly.

787

It starts to feel boring.

788

okay

789

so how people ask me all the time how do I increase my energy how do I improve my motivation

790

while I'm listening to English

791

and the number one thing you can do is just get up

792

and move your body

793

while you listen I mean this is the great thing about efforts English

794

it's the great thing about online learning independent learning you can do it with your phone

795

and some headphones so you put your headphones on maybe smaller than these

796

but get some get some headphones get your phone put it in your pocket

797

and jump on your bike and go ride in the forest, go ride under the trees.

798

You're listening to English, you're riding your bike, you're in a great, beautiful, natural area.

799

That's fantastic.

800

You're feeding your brain with English.

801

You're feeding your eyes with this natural environment.

802

You're feeding your whole body and soul with this natural environment.

803

And you're moving your body.

804

So your blood's moving, your heart's pumping.

805

That keeps you awake.

806

Your body has energy.

807

When your body has energy, your mind has energy.

808

I guarantee you while you're riding your bike through the woods, your mind's not going to get sleepy.

809

Your mind's going to be awake.

810

People do this while biking, bicycling.

811

You can just go for a walk if you want to.

812

That's an easy one.

813

Just go for a walk.

814

Same idea.

815

Put on your headphones.

816

You got your phone.

817

Go outdoors and go for a walk.

818

Go to the park.

819

Walk through the city.

820

It doesn't matter.

821

Wherever you live, just go get out there and walk.

822

Even the act of walking keeps you physically and mentally awake and alive, which is great for learning.

823

And then you're combining two things.

824

It's a little bit of a fitness benefit, health benefit, and you're learning English at the same time.

825

If you're into running, you can do it while you're running.

826

These kind of aerobic exercises are usually the best.

827

so fantastic bari thank you for sharing that

828

and uh i think it's just it's fantastic i really really really encourage you to do

829

that if you listen to my podcast do it

830

while you're moving your body you know get outdoors you know today

831

or tomorrow whenever the next day is for you try it the next time you listen to the effortless english podcast

832

try it outdoors moving your body so go for a bike ride

833

or go for a jog

834

or go for a walk i guess i guess they have what they make waterproof headphones can you do it

835

while swimming maybe i think they do i think i've seen

836

that before i think you can get like waterproof cases

837

and you actually listen to audios while you swim so even if you're a swimmer there's no excuse

838

okay all right well thank you very much hope

839

you had a great day today it's been great talking to you

840

so remember back to our main topic

841

which was dr krashen storytelling story story stories storytelling methods are

842

the best storytelling methods are the best way to learn english the most powerful according to dr stephen krashen

843

and according to me too lots of love to you as always

844

Go to Effortless English Club, EffortlessEnglishClub.com.

845

Join my VIP program.

846

Get my pronunciation course.

847

Speak English powerfully at EffortlessEnglishClub.com.

848

Thank you.

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15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
podcast существительное	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	подка́ст
audio прилагательное	/ˈɔ.di.oʊ/	а́удио-, звуково́й
vocabulary существительное	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	слова́рь, слова́рный запа́с
grammar существительное	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	грамма́тика
storytelling существительное		расска́зывание
pronunciation существительное	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	произноше́ние, вы́говор
verb существительное	/vɝb/	глаго́л
accent существительное	/ækˈsɛnt/	ударе́ние, акце́нт
topic существительное	/ˈtɑpɪk/	те́ма, предме́т
naturally наречие	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	есте́ственно
technique существительное	/tɛkˈniːk/	те́хника
emotion существительное	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	эмо́ция, чу́вство
subscribe глагол	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	подпи́сывать, подписа́ть
tense существительное	/tɛns/	вре́мя
bore глагол	/boɹ/	надоеда́ть, надое́сть

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
check out глагол		проверя́ть, прове́рить
come up глагол		поднима́ться, подня́ться
get up глагол		поднима́ться, подня́ться
look up глагол	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	улучша́ться
sit back глагол		откинуться

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

Let's go now to our topic.
Normally, I'm not very impressed by that.
After it's installed, what do you do?
How do I do that?
People ask me, how do I do this?

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Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing — действие началось раньше и продолжается	have been listening · he's been listening
Условные предложения if + предложение, will/would + глагол — условие и его результат	if I don't focus, I'll miss
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	I've changed · I've adapted · You've learned
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	is called · are based · are called

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Говорящий использует 244 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, I'm, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «sh» и «zh»: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, concentration /ˌkɑn.sənˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: awake /əˈweɪk/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, swim /swɪm/, waterproof /ˈwɔt̬ɚˌpruf/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: headphones /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, hardy /ˈhɑɹdi/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, highlight /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/, humour /ˈhjuːmɚ/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: verb /vɝb/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, progressive /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/, headphones /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/

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Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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