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Effortless English Rule 1 English Phrases
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hi i'm aj hogue and welcome to the first
secret or the first rule
for excellent
english speaking
now this whole video course
is going to teach you a very very
different way
of learning english
and if you follow every one of these
secrets or rules
i promise you
your english speaking will improve
tremendously a lot you will make big
improvements and i also promise you you
will enjoy learning english better
you'll enjoy speaking it more you'll
feel more confident all of these little
things will happen
so let's get started what is secret
number one well secret number one is
always
study and learn phrases
not
individual words
alright so what's a phrase a phrase is
simply a group of words
doesn't need to be a full sentence
although that's fine
but it's a group of words more than one
word
that's a phrase
so this is a very very simple rule
simple secret
but extremely powerful in fact this is
one of the keys
to learning and mastering
english
grammar when you speak
and it's much better than studying
grammar textbooks
okay so in your traditional english
classes schools and books in your normal
book
classes that you took before the normal
books that you used before
how did you learn
well when you learned vocabulary you had
long vocabulary lists right usually at
the back of the chapter there's a list
and you see the word and then maybe a
translation
of the meaning in your own language
and you just studied these lists of
words and memorized them
tried to memorize them for tests
and then probably you forgot most of
them that's what usually happens
so this is a very painful and boring
method right
i mean nobody likes studying
lists of vocabulary words good good news
for you stop doing it it doesn't work
you don't need to do it anymore
so
what you do need to do is focus on
natural real english phrases
when you do this you get free grammar
let me give you a very simple example so
simple
john hates
ice cream
now of course to hate means to dislike
to not like something very strongly
so john hates ice cream let's imagine
that hate is a new word for you
now in the normal traditional way of
learning
you would find to hate
that version of the verb in
the back of the chapter or in the
chapter of your book and you'd write it
down to hate it means
to not like something
and then you would study that version of
the verb right to hate to hate to hate
and then later you would learn all these
complicated rules about how to change
that verb in different situations
right
i hate
he hates
with an s and then you would learn the
past tense and the future and all this
stuff and you try to you have to
remember the the basic form of the verb
to hate and then you would have to
remember
how to change it
that's the old way of doing it and it's
painful and it's boring and it doesn't
work because it causes you to be
thinking too much when you should be
speaking easily and automatically
when you learn a phrase you just write
down the phrase so first of all you get
your phrase from some natural english
not a textbook and you write down john
hates ice cream you write down the full
phrase always you never write down just
one word
you never just write down the dictionary
form of the word you would not write
down to hate you would write down john
hates ice cream
and you might put a note
to remind you where that phrase comes
from
so you might put you know it comes from
a story that you read or it comes from
something you heard in a movie whatever
it is it reminds you of the the real
situation that it came from
now when you just study this phrase john
hates ice cream you never study just one
word you're studying the phrase you're
automatically getting grammar you don't
need to know about singular or plural or
you know anything like that
you just will learn naturally by
learning phrases like this that you
always say he hates she hates john hates
mary hates it will become natural see
this is how native speakers learn
grammar this is how i learned english
grammar myself as a child we don't study
grammar rules and we certainly don't
study vocabulary lists but what we do
learn from our parents and from other
people
is we just hear natural phrases all the
time
so for me i naturally feel deeply
that if i say john
that i'm always going to put an s on
there john hates
because i've heard phrases like that
so many times
i feel the grammar i don't need to think
about it and i feel it because i learned
phrases not individual words
not grammar rules not from textbooks
this is so simple but it's very powerful
if you use it correctly but you must do
it all the time so never study a single
english word again always always always
when you learn something new write down
the full phrase even the full sentence
super important this is very powerful
but very simple
now here's the easy way to do it
go get yourself a small notebook a
phrase notebook just a little notebook
that you carry around with you all the
time carrying your jacket put it in your
backpack
and then any time
you find a new word in english
maybe you're something something you're
reading something you're listening to
doesn't matter you're just gonna write
it down in your phrase notebook but
you're gonna write the whole phrase so
if hate was a new word for you you would
not just write down that word hate you'd
write down the full phrase john hates
ice cream
or john hates up to you but you're
always going to write down at least
three or four words that go with that
vocabulary
very very important
and then when you learn new words you
just keep adding to it then in the
future when you review when you're
studying when you're reviewing your
vocabulary you always review the full
phrases always always always you never
study the individual word you always
always always review and study full
phrases
by doing this you're going to learn
number one how to use vocabulary
naturally and correctly
you see sometimes we use certain words
in certain situations
there might be another word that means
the same thing but we don't use it in
that situation
how do you know that there are no rules
about that the only way you know that is
by studying phrases phrases that you get
from real english
and by real english i mean not textbooks
another thing again you get free grammar
with this
you're just gonna there's gonna be so
much grammar in those phrases you don't
need to think about it it's just gonna
be there naturally if it's a if it's a
natural real correct phrase
the the verbs are gonna be correct
the possessives will will be there when
they're when they need to be
the correct prepositions will be in
there
you don't need to think about it oh when
do i use on and when do i use you know
in
when do i use at you don't need to think
about that just learn phrases eventually
you start getting more and more of these
phrases there's a lot of repetition and
you'll start to get a feeling for how
these things work in english how the
grammar works how the prepositions work
when do you use certain vocabulary when
do you not it happens automatically
unconsciously meaning you don't need to
think about it all the time it just
feels automatic
this is the way children learn grammar
and vocabulary and it's the way you must
also
if you want to speak english
easily
automatically effortlessly
so that's it very very simple our rule
number one our secret number one is
always learn and study
phrases
never
individual words
all right this is just secret number one
we've got seven of them when you put
them all together you're gonna have
a completely new way of learning english
you will get fantastic results just
follow these secrets secret number one
always learn phrases never ever study
individual words
see you tomorrow for secret number two
bye
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