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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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