0:01 hi i'm aj hogue and welcome to the first
0:04 secret or the first rule
0:06 for excellent
0:08 english speaking
0:11 now this whole video course
0:14 is going to teach you a very very
0:16 different way
0:18 of learning english
0:20 and if you follow every one of these
0:22 secrets or rules
0:24 i promise you
0:26 your english speaking will improve
0:28 tremendously a lot you will make big
0:31 improvements and i also promise you you
0:34 will enjoy learning english better
0:35 you'll enjoy speaking it more you'll
0:37 feel more confident all of these little
0:39 things will happen
0:41 so let's get started what is secret
0:42 number one well secret number one is
0:46 always
0:47 study and learn phrases
0:50 not
0:51 individual words
0:54 alright so what's a phrase a phrase is
0:57 simply a group of words
0:59 doesn't need to be a full sentence
1:01 although that's fine
1:03 but it's a group of words more than one
1:05 word
1:06 that's a phrase
1:09 so this is a very very simple rule
1:13 simple secret
1:14 but extremely powerful in fact this is
1:18 one of the keys
1:20 to learning and mastering
1:23 english
1:24 grammar when you speak
1:26 and it's much better than studying
1:30 grammar textbooks
1:31 okay so in your traditional english
1:34 classes schools and books in your normal
1:37 book
1:38 classes that you took before the normal
1:39 books that you used before
1:41 how did you learn
1:43 well when you learned vocabulary you had
1:45 long vocabulary lists right usually at
1:47 the back of the chapter there's a list
1:49 and you see the word and then maybe a
1:51 translation
1:52 of the meaning in your own language
1:56 and you just studied these lists of
1:58 words and memorized them
2:00 tried to memorize them for tests
2:02 and then probably you forgot most of
2:04 them that's what usually happens
2:07 so this is a very painful and boring
2:10 method right
2:11 i mean nobody likes studying
2:13 lists of vocabulary words good good news
2:16 for you stop doing it it doesn't work
2:18 you don't need to do it anymore
2:21 so
2:22 what you do need to do is focus on
2:24 natural real english phrases
2:28 when you do this you get free grammar
2:31 let me give you a very simple example so
2:33 simple
2:34 john hates
2:37 ice cream
2:39 now of course to hate means to dislike
2:42 to not like something very strongly
2:46 so john hates ice cream let's imagine
2:48 that hate is a new word for you
2:50 now in the normal traditional way of
2:53 learning
2:54 you would find to hate
2:56 that version of the verb in
2:59 the back of the chapter or in the
3:01 chapter of your book and you'd write it
3:03 down to hate it means
3:05 to not like something
3:08 and then you would study that version of
3:09 the verb right to hate to hate to hate
3:12 and then later you would learn all these
3:14 complicated rules about how to change
3:17 that verb in different situations
3:20 right
3:21 i hate
3:23 he hates
3:24 with an s and then you would learn the
3:26 past tense and the future and all this
3:27 stuff and you try to you have to
3:29 remember the the basic form of the verb
3:31 to hate and then you would have to
3:32 remember
3:34 how to change it
3:36 that's the old way of doing it and it's
3:39 painful and it's boring and it doesn't
3:40 work because it causes you to be
3:42 thinking too much when you should be
3:44 speaking easily and automatically
3:48 when you learn a phrase you just write
3:50 down the phrase so first of all you get
3:52 your phrase from some natural english
3:54 not a textbook and you write down john
3:57 hates ice cream you write down the full
3:59 phrase always you never write down just
4:02 one word
4:03 you never just write down the dictionary
4:06 form of the word you would not write
4:08 down to hate you would write down john
4:11 hates ice cream
4:14 and you might put a note
4:16 to remind you where that phrase comes
4:20 from
4:20 so you might put you know it comes from
4:23 a story that you read or it comes from
4:25 something you heard in a movie whatever
4:27 it is it reminds you of the the real
4:30 situation that it came from
4:33 now when you just study this phrase john
4:35 hates ice cream you never study just one
4:37 word you're studying the phrase you're
4:39 automatically getting grammar you don't
4:41 need to know about singular or plural or
4:44 you know anything like that
4:46 you just will learn naturally by
4:48 learning phrases like this that you
4:50 always say he hates she hates john hates
4:54 mary hates it will become natural see
4:58 this is how native speakers learn
5:00 grammar this is how i learned english
5:03 grammar myself as a child we don't study
5:05 grammar rules and we certainly don't
5:08 study vocabulary lists but what we do
5:10 learn from our parents and from other
5:12 people
5:13 is we just hear natural phrases all the
5:16 time
5:17 so for me i naturally feel deeply
5:22 that if i say john
5:24 that i'm always going to put an s on
5:26 there john hates
5:27 because i've heard phrases like that
5:30 so many times
5:32 i feel the grammar i don't need to think
5:34 about it and i feel it because i learned
5:36 phrases not individual words
5:39 not grammar rules not from textbooks
5:43 this is so simple but it's very powerful
5:45 if you use it correctly but you must do
5:47 it all the time so never study a single
5:52 english word again always always always
5:55 when you learn something new write down
5:57 the full phrase even the full sentence
6:02 super important this is very powerful
6:04 but very simple
6:06 now here's the easy way to do it
6:09 go get yourself a small notebook a
6:10 phrase notebook just a little notebook
6:12 that you carry around with you all the
6:14 time carrying your jacket put it in your
6:16 backpack
6:17 and then any time
6:19 you find a new word in english
6:23 maybe you're something something you're
6:24 reading something you're listening to
6:26 doesn't matter you're just gonna write
6:28 it down in your phrase notebook but
6:30 you're gonna write the whole phrase so
6:32 if hate was a new word for you you would
6:35 not just write down that word hate you'd
6:37 write down the full phrase john hates
6:39 ice cream
6:41 or john hates up to you but you're
6:43 always going to write down at least
6:45 three or four words that go with that
6:48 vocabulary
6:50 very very important
6:52 and then when you learn new words you
6:53 just keep adding to it then in the
6:55 future when you review when you're
6:57 studying when you're reviewing your
6:59 vocabulary you always review the full
7:02 phrases always always always you never
7:05 study the individual word you always
7:08 always always review and study full
7:11 phrases
7:13 by doing this you're going to learn
7:14 number one how to use vocabulary
7:17 naturally and correctly
7:20 you see sometimes we use certain words
7:22 in certain situations
7:24 there might be another word that means
7:26 the same thing but we don't use it in
7:28 that situation
7:30 how do you know that there are no rules
7:32 about that the only way you know that is
7:34 by studying phrases phrases that you get
7:36 from real english
7:39 and by real english i mean not textbooks
7:43 another thing again you get free grammar
7:45 with this
7:46 you're just gonna there's gonna be so
7:48 much grammar in those phrases you don't
7:49 need to think about it it's just gonna
7:51 be there naturally if it's a if it's a
7:52 natural real correct phrase
7:55 the the verbs are gonna be correct
7:58 the possessives will will be there when
8:00 they're when they need to be
8:02 the correct prepositions will be in
8:04 there
8:05 you don't need to think about it oh when
8:07 do i use on and when do i use you know
8:09 in
8:10 when do i use at you don't need to think
8:12 about that just learn phrases eventually
8:15 you start getting more and more of these
8:16 phrases there's a lot of repetition and
8:19 you'll start to get a feeling for how
8:22 these things work in english how the
8:24 grammar works how the prepositions work
8:26 when do you use certain vocabulary when
8:29 do you not it happens automatically
8:32 unconsciously meaning you don't need to
8:33 think about it all the time it just
8:35 feels automatic
8:37 this is the way children learn grammar
8:39 and vocabulary and it's the way you must
8:42 also
8:44 if you want to speak english
8:47 easily
8:48 automatically effortlessly
8:52 so that's it very very simple our rule
8:55 number one our secret number one is
8:58 always learn and study
9:01 phrases
9:03 never
9:04 individual words
9:07 all right this is just secret number one
9:09 we've got seven of them when you put
9:11 them all together you're gonna have
9:14 a completely new way of learning english
9:16 you will get fantastic results just
9:18 follow these secrets secret number one
9:21 always learn phrases never ever study
9:25 individual words
9:27 see you tomorrow for secret number two
9:30 bye
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