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Effortless English Rule 6 Learn Real English

hi it's AJ and welcome to rule
number
six rule number six is simple but very
very important and very very effective
in fact you'll have noticed that all of
these rules are simple but they're very
powerful in fact individually they're
very powerful just using one of these
rules can improve your English speaking
a lot but the the real power comes when
you use all seven of them to totally
change the way you learn
English so what's number six number six
is this only use
authentic real English
materials what does that mean well put
another way don't use textbooks I talked
about this already when I was talking
about throwing away your grammar books
but really you need to throw away all of
your textbooks all of them get rid of
them they're horrible they're boring you
know they're boring they're
useless you know get rid of all the
grammar textbooks all those with the
little fake you know conversations in
them and all the nice little graphics
and pictures they put in to try to make
them seem interesting when in fact it's
really boring because what do those
textbooks really have they got a bunch
of fake conversations with boring actors
reading them and then they have a bunch
of little boring activities and drills
that are supposed to help you improve
your
communication it's
all bad it's not going to help you what
you need to do instead is use only
authentic real English materials what
does that
mean when I say real here's what I mean
I mean the best materials are the ones
that are for native speakers in other
words books and audios and videos that
are made for Canadians Americans British
people
Australians they're not made for
foreigners learning English they're made
for the people actually living in those
countries that's a real authentic
material book CD video
whatever you can also use materials that
are very very very very similar or very
very close to real materials for example
there are some really good um books out
there story
books that they're they're about real
stories you know written about you know
like little novels little short novels
but they're using a little bit simpler
English so that people who are learning
English can understand them a little
more easily but it's not a textbook it's
a real story some of them have audio so
it's like a real audio book book real
interesting information it's not you
know a bunch of rules and stupid
activities and fake
conversations so those kind of materials
are also quite good that's what I mean
when I say real materials
real and let me give you an example of
this let's say you wanted to improve
your reading your English reading
skills now there's two ways to do this
the old traditional boring way which
doesn't work is to go out and get a
bunch of you know fake tests for example
a bunch of TOEFL tests and read all
those extremely boring essays in the the
TOEFL book and then take a bunch of
tests with it or you could get some
reading comprehension
textbook once again reading a bunch of
boring stories written by Boring people
and then take a bunch of boring tests or
answer a bunch of boring questions at
the end of
it it's not very fun and it's not
effective you could also go out and buy
some vocabulary books and try to
memorize all this new vocabulary these
huge
lists none of that works very
well I mean you can improve that way but
it's very slow and it's painfully
boring a much better way and the
research shows a much more effective and
Powerful way is to read easy stories to
read easy
novels now what does easy mean well it
depends on your level for some people
easy means children's books right books
that are made for American children or
British children or Australian children
whatever but they're not made for
foreign students they're made for the
local people but they're at an easier
level for because they're for
children for you for a lot of people
watching this video probably I would say
easy
novels for young
adults for you know older elementary
school children or middle school
children or High School level depends on
what your level is so when I say easy I
usually mean you should understand about
95% of the words without a
dictionary so then you can easily guess
the other 5% I've mentioned this
before so if you wanted to improve your
reading what you would do is you'd go
out and you would read as many of these
novels as you could you could read
magazines easy magazines for uh for kids
or for young adults and read lots of
them you could read a lot of
novels you know there's lots of those
novels for for adolescence Adventure
novels romance
novels and you know they're for young
adults so they might be a little bit
like not really for total adults but
it's much more interesting and fun to
read those than textbooks I promise
promise you and you would read lots and
lots and lots of them and as you did
that your vocabulary would increase your
reading comprehension would increase
very quickly your reading speed in
English would improve very very quickly
and soon in just a few
months those kinds of books would be
super easy for you and then you could
start reading more difficult
material maybe you would start reading
you know High School level novels and
stories and you'd read lots and lots and
lots of those if you like romance you'd
read romance books if you like Adventure
you'd read Adventure if you like science
fiction or fantasy you'd read those kind
of books if you write like nonfiction
well you'd read a lot of non-fiction but
it' be real
books and then eventually those would
feel easy after it happens quite quickly
in fact if you if you read every single
day like that you you improve quickly
and then you could go up to adult level
novels you could read books by you know
famous best-selling authors John Grisham
Stephen King again depends on your
interest always choose things that you
personally like and enjoy and by reading
lots and lots and lots of those books
reading lots and lots and lots of
Stephen King King books for example or
John Grisham
books your reading would improve so fast
so
powerfully and so much faster so much
more powerfully than someone who's
trying to learn from textbooks and
reading comprehension books and
vocabulary books this is a much faster
more powerful way to improve your
reading now of course in these rules
we're talking about speaking and
listening so how do you do that well
it's the same idea it's exactly the same
idea instead of using books you would
use audios so you want to listen to as
many easy
real audios as you can every day
you want to listen to audio stories you
want to listen to easy audio books you
want to listen to podcasts audio
podcasts audio radio
shows easy audios on topics that you
enjoy that are
entertaining it's real
stuff and you would follow that same
thing for a while those really easy ones
would maybe they would feel a little
difficult to you but after listening to
them again and again and again they
quickly become easy then you go up to a
higher level and then you do it again
again and again and again and soon
you're listening to real audios real
audio books for adults for American
adults for British
adults or real radio shows for Americans
or Canadians or British or Australian
you can mix all of those it doesn't
matter that is how you learn real
English because see in the textbooks
it's not real English it's very
unnatural those fake conversations are
unnatural and we don't really speak that
way right what's lesson one in most
textbooks hello Hi how are you I'm fine
and
you right and you have these actors
reading that conversation in a very
unnatural way the pronunciation is very
strange because nobody really talks like
that and in fact in the United States
when you meet someone the first time you
will almost never hear that kind of
conversation people really say things
like how you doing what's up nice to
meet
you you don't find those little phrases
in most textbooks yet those are the most
common real ways of greeting people
that's why you know you learn all this
textbook English and then you go to a
country and you can't understand
anybody even though you know you know
10,000 words or 20,000 words or
something and you know all this grammar
but you can't understand the real people
having real conversations why because
you learned textbook English you did not
learn from real English materials
authentic English materials so if you
want to be able to
function with real
English especially if you want to talk
to people who are from Canada or the
United States or the UK or
Australia then you must learn from real
materials
very
important and you know once again this
is how children learn right children do
not study textbooks to learn their own
language right little two-year-olds and
one-year-olds and threeyear olds are not
studying English textbooks in the United
States they're learning from stories and
real conversations and real
communication about real ideas or real
emotions
that's how they learn and that's why
they speak so naturally and effortlessly
if you bring a foreign child child from
another country to the United
States and you put them with a bunch of
children American children who speak
English all the time that child will
learn English
perfectly with no textbooks with no
grammar
study how do they do it well they do it
with real stories Real playing playing
with the other children real
communication real
English so what you need to do is number
one is go out and get real materials and
of course our lessons that's what I
do I tell you stories and I give you a
lot of teachings my lessons are not
focused on the little parts of English
because I don't want you to think about
that at all I want you to think about
interesting ideas I want I want you to
feel entertained I want you to focus on
the emotions and the
ideas of what I'm saying that of what's
inside the
audio so most of my main lessons are on
personal growth topics about you know
being more healthy having more energy
being more successful in all parts of
your life I want you focused on those
ideas you're you're learning English at
the same time but I don't want you
thinking about every little word I don't
want you thinking about the grammar
rules I want you focusing on the ideas
powerful ideas interesting ideas as you
focus on those real ideas real
emotions you will learn the English
automatically it's the same with the
stories I make them funny and crazy so
that you remember them so that you are
entertained you're focused on the
emotions and the crazy ideas in the
story and the grammar and the vocabulary
and the pronunciation just happen
automatically you're focused on being
entertained you're focused on getting
interesting information useful
information that's what makes real
material so powerful and so much better
than some terrible boring useless
textbook which will not teach you real
English anyway so use real materials in
order to improve much much much
faster to understand real speech so that
when you go to a country or you talk to
someone from an english- speaking
country you will actually understand
them you'll understand the the real
English they use in conversations not
some textbook that nobody
uses and I think another big reason to
use real materials is you'll enjoy it
more it's just more fun it's more
interesting instead of learning a bunch
of boring junk in a textbook that's
that's just useless and not real you get
to learn real interesting ideas or you
get to be entertained you get to have
interesting emotions it's real stuff
it's the kind of things you might enjoy
in your own language so important so
powerful so rule number six is this use
only authentic real English materials
and that's rule six tomorrow's our last
rule so look for the next email tomorrow
last rule see you again bye-bye