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Effortless English Rule 5 How to Learn English Grammar

hi it's AJ and it's time for rule number
five now rule five is one of my
favorites you'll remember way back in
rule number two that I told you do not
study grammar rules I told you to get
rid of your grammar textbooks and some
of you are feeling stressed because all
your life you were told that grammar
grammar grammar is the key to English
now if it was the key to English you
probably would be speaking a lot better
now because I know you've already
studied a lot of grammar
rules now on the other hand grammar
itself is important of course we need
grammar of course we need to use grammar
correctly when we speak but you don't
learn it from studying grammar rules or
memorizing a bunch of rules in a
textbook instead rule number five is
this use point of view stories use point
of view stories that's rule number five
now a point of view story it's a method
it's a technique for learning English
grammar and specifically for learning
spoken English grammar because of course
we're talking about speaking here not
writing so use point of view stories to
learn English grammar don't use
textbooks don't study grammar rules
instead use point of view
stories now what is a point of view
story I know you're asking what is a
point of view story most people don't
know about this so here's here's a very
simple
explanation a point of view story or
stories actually it's a series of
stories point of view stories it's a
series of stories so basically what you
need to do is you get one basic story
told from a certain point of
view what that means is really it's told
about a certain time for example let's
say the
past so we would tell a
story about something that happened in
the past let me give you a very very
very simple example um there was a
dog he was very hungry so he ate a lot
of
food that's not much of a story but it's
just an example okay so you would listen
to this story in the past right 10 years
ago there was a dog he was very hungry
and he ate a lot of food and then of
course a real point of view story would
be much longer it would be more
interesting and funny and it would be a
little more complicated but just for our
example I'll use something very very
very very simple so you understand the
idea so the first thing is you listen to
this story from one point of view the
past
and of course as you're listening to
that you're learning the past tense
you're learning the verb forms that go
with the simple past but you don't need
to study in a textbook the simple past
you don't need to know that eight is an
irregular form of the verb you don't
need to know any of that all you need to
do is listen to the
story and as long as you understand that
the story is happening in the past you
will naturally
subconsciously and in fact effortlessly
learn the correct past tense verb
forms you don't need to memorize
anything you certainly don't need to
analyze any kind of rules or
textbooks now here's the next thing you
do with point of view stories next you
would listen to that same exact story
but now it would be told from the
present point of
view so you might listen to a story that
starts like this
there is a
dog and right now he's very
hungry so he eats a lot of
food now again this isn't a real story
but it gives you an example it's the
same basic structure right the same
basic story but now it's happening it's
happening now it's happening
today or it might happen every
day and so what you would do is then
you'd listen to that story of course a
real story would be long longer and more
complicated and more interesting and
more
funny but you get the idea and by
listening now to these two versions of
the story you would
learn the past and then you would learn
the present you wouldn't just learn the
verb forms you would just you would
learn the all of the structures you
would learn how we talk about the past
you would learn how we talk about the
present you would learn those important
little time phrases like right now today
10 years
ago cuz those little time phrases tell
you which verbs to
use and of course you could listen to
the same story again another version
maybe the next version would involve
both the present perfect and the present
or the present perfect and the past
again you don't need to know the present
perfect you don't need to know what that
means you don't need to analyze it you
don't need to remember it you would just
listen to the
story and as long as you understood the
meaning and the time you would learn the
present perfect correctly effortlessly
subconsciously it would go into your
brain without thinking and that's what
we want with speech there's no time to
think and remember a bunch of rules
there's no time to translate everything
hap happens very instantly immediately
automatically you need to think it in
English feel it in English understand it
instantly in English say it instantly in
English
correctly and you'll never learn that by
studying grammar rules will not happen
you will learn it through point of view
stories and of course we could tell the
same story again from a future point of
view you know we could imagine in the
future there will be a dog and he'll be
very hungry he will be very hungry and
he's going to eat a lot of food
GNA means going
to so you would listen to a whole long
story and then it's the same basic story
but now it's told about the future and
by listening to all the different
versions your brain would get a feeling
for how things change sometimes it's not
just the verb sometimes vocabulary
changes a little bit when we talk about
different time
periods and of course it's not just verb
forms we can use other grammar to focus
on with these kind of stories and making
these changes helps your brain
understand what's
happening without you having to think
about it and analyze it and memorize
like you're taking a test it all just
happens automatically by listening to
these simple funny interesting stories
and listening to all the different
versions that's how you learn spoken
English grammar that's how you learn to
use it instantly automatically
correctly this is is much more powerful
than studying some
book and the great thing is all you have
to do as the student as the learner all
you need to do is just listen to each
version of the story every
day that's all your job is just to
listen understand and enjoy the stories
you just need to concentrate and focus
so you can hear how things are
changing you don't need to remember any
grammar terms you don't need to remember
present perfect past perfect you know
future Progressive none of that matters
you can just forget all that it doesn't
matter all you have to do is understand
what the story is about understand the
meaning understand the point of view the
time that it's happening and then you
can compare the different versions of
the stories as you listen to each one
every day it's a really easy and fun way
to do
it and of course in my real point of
view
stories uh make the stories crazy and
funny and
entertaining and I make them strange
because it's easier to remember strange
and funny things than normal and boring
things so that's also
important so this is how you learn
grammar easily effortlessly
unconsciously automatically and this is
how you learn to get a feeling for
correctness it's that that feeling
inside that you know something sounds
right and something else sounds wrong
you have that in your own
language that's how you use correct
grammar in your own language when you're
speaking your own language you are not
constantly trying to remember a bunch of
grammar rules of course not but if you
hear something that's wrong in your
language grammatically wrong you know it
you kind of feel it right something in
your brain or something about it just
sounds wrong if someone says yesterday I
eat a
lot I I don't think oh well the the
correct form of the verb is eight and
it's irregular I don't think about that
just as a as a as a native English
speaker I just it just sounds wrong it
sounds strange to me I'm like uh right
my first reaction is deep inside it's
just kind of that's that's wrong I feel
it you know if I want to I can think
about it but that takes a lot of time
but the feeling happens instantly in
automa
ically that's what you need to
speak correctly and to use correct
spoken grammar when you're writing I
don't care what you do you can think as
much as you want and go as slowly as you
want but for speaking you got to be
instant fast immediate very important so
that's it when you learn with point of
view stories you will learn to use
grammar automatically and correctly
you will learn much faster you'll
improve your spoken English grammar much
much faster and you'll learn it like a
child and you'll actually have fun doing
it you will actually enjoy learning
grammar by listening to these stories
and and that's a big benefit too so rule
number five use point of view stories to
learn and master spoken English grammar
I will see you tomorrow for rule number
six have a great day