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Effortless English Rule 4 Deep English Learning With Repetition

hi this is AJ and it's time for secret
number four rule number four for
excellent English speaking now you've
learned three powerful ones already and
just using those three it's really going
to help your English speaking I think
you're going to enjoy learning English a
lot more but as I said it's a full
system so you really need to learn all
seven so let's learn number four today
secret number four is this learn
deeply learn
deeply what do I mean by that we have
this idea of wide and shallow you think
of water for example shallow water is
like this deep water is like an ocean
very very
deep so when we're talking about
learning something deeply it means you
totally learn it and master it
there's a great quote from a guy named
Tony Robbins which is this repetition is
the mother of
skill repetition is the mother of skill
means to be very skillful to be very
great at something you've got to repeat
it so many
times well that's basically what we're
talking about here learning something
deeply totally completely
once again it's the opposite of what
happens in school in most English
classes what happens in the normal
English class the normal English school
the traditional way of learning well you
go very very very fast right right
there's a lot of pressure to keep going
learning more more more and more right
because you have to finish the textbook
every teacher feels some pressure to
finish the
textbook in the correct time right we
have to finish the textbook this year so
next year we can do the next textbook
right we got to finish book number one
we got to do it quickly so that next
year we can do book two it would be
terrible not to finish book number one
this year that's the idea that they have
and it's totally crazy and wrong so
here's what happens every week or every
two weeks you're learning something new
in your English class new grammar for
example so you learn the past tense and
then two or three weeks later oh now
you're learning the the present perfect
and then a few weeks later now you're
learning the
future that is crazy there is no way you
can master and truly learn the past
tense for example in just a few
weeks even in just a couple of mon
months it's not possible and then you
start adding more and more and more and
more and of course all the vocabulary
lists more and more and more every week
another huge list of words to memorize
and there's all this pressure to go
faster faster faster so what happens of
course you study all this stuff for the
test you memorize it you memorize it you
take the test maybe you get a good grade
maybe you don't and then after the test
you forget a lot of it right right
because you never learned it deeply you
just memorized it short term and then
you forget a lot of it or maybe you
remember it but you can't use
it I know you know the past tense I know
you've studied it but do you always use
it
correctly if the answer is no if you
still make mistakes it's because you
never learned the past tense
deeply now I have no problem with the
past tense is it because I'm a genius no
of course it's because I learned English
as a small child and I mastered the past
tense how did I do it how did I learn it
so deeply through lots of
repetition my parents did not try to
teach me the present perfect or the
future Progressive or something when I
was very small no I heard the past tense
again and again and again every single
day hundreds of times a day thousands of
times a day
day until the past tense was so deep in
my mind I didn't need to think about it
anymore and I don't need to think about
it it's totally
automatic that is deep
learning that's what you need you need
to slow down and totally learn what you
are studying what you are listening to
you need to completely Master it to know
it
deep inside not just know it in you know
in your brain it's the same with
vocabulary you might know a word like if
I ask you the meaning you can tell me
the meaning but can you use it instantly
in a conversation a real
conversation if I say it in a
conversation do you instantly and
automatically understand it
completely if not you have not learned
it deeply
now you're beginning to understand why
you are having problems with English
speaking you may think you know a lot of
grammar and vocabulary but most of it
you do not know deeply it's not
automatic you have to think about
it so you have to change the way you
learn once again this is another secret
another rule something else you need to
change about the way you are learning
English
now the most basic way to do this is to
do the opposite of school so instead of
hurrying instead of trying to go fast
and new chapter all the time I want you
to do the opposite I want you to go
slowly for example when you buy our
lessons I will tell you that each lesson
set a lesson set has maybe four or five
connected lessons they about the same
topic I will tell you that you must
study that one lesson set at least 10
days to two
weeks maybe even more maybe three weeks
maybe one full month for a lesson
set why because I want you to repeat
that lesson every single day of course
you're listening with your ears so what
you're going to do is you're going to
listen to each of those lessons it's
about an hour total
every day you'll listen to those maybe
once maybe twice a
day the next day you'll listen to those
same audios again and the next day the
same audios again and the next day the
same audios again for 10 days 14 days 21
days more if necessary it's not a
race you don't need to hurry no what I
want you to do is to totally completely
learn it know it deeply
automatically and of course the way we
design our lessons there's also a lot of
repetition in the lessons so let's say
there are four or five different Audios
in that
set each of those audios is using some
of the same vocabulary a lot of the same
grammar so you hear it in one situation
then you hear it in another audio
article then you hear it in a kind of
funny crazy story then you hear it in
another situation so you're appearing
the same thing but in different
situations so it's not boring it's still
interesting but you're getting that
repetition so you will start to learn
the vocabulary and the grammar much more
deeply that's how our system is designed
it's very very
important so here's the thing you have
to do a lot of repeating focus on
repeating a lot
and doing a smaller amount of material
so instead of reading 20 books read one
book but read it slowly and well or a
better example is audio instead of
listening to 50 audios and watching 20
movies pick three audios and listen to
them every single day the same
audios for seven days 14 days 20 days
whatever lots and lots and lots of
repetition then the phrases will go into
your mind deeply the grammar will start
getting in there you don't need to think
about it it happens automatically the
new vocabulary if it's easy the new
vocabulary gets in there all of these
things go deeper deeper deeper each time
you listen until it becomes automatic
you don't need to translate you don't
need to think about it it will pop out
of your
mouth that is the power of deep learning
and it never stops it never
stops I'm still hearing every single day
the past tense in English so in a way
right I'm getting more repetition it
never stops I'll never stop as long as
I'm alive it's never ending it's the
same for you you never stop but you
listen to fun and interesting things so
the repetition is fun and interesting if
you're focusing on textbooks and schools
and grammar uh of course repetition is
difficult because it's painfully boring
but with our lessons for example you're
listening to funny crazy interesting
stuff so it's easy to repeat it 7 days
or 14 days or 20 days it's not a problem
and you can go out and you can find
other interesting audios and do the same
thing so here it is secret number four
rule number four very very important
learn
deeply repetition is the mother of skill
learn
deeply all right I will see you tomorrow
for secret number five have a great day
bye-bye