Rule 3: Listening English

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June 17, 2010 by admin
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If you want to speak English fluently, you should stop studying grammar rules and textbooks. Listening English is the key to speak English properly. So, how you practice listening English? Well, you should listen and learn real English. And It must be easy and interesting lessons.

Effortless English listening course will help you to improve your English listening and speaking. Watch below video and A.J. Hoge will explain what you need to do.

Effortless English Rule 3: Learn English Listening

Hi, this is A.J. Hoge, director of Efforltess English. Welcome to rule number 3. So, the rule number 3 is very simple, so easy. And yet, very very powerful. In fact, I usually say this is the number one suggestion, the number one rule, the most important rule and so easy, and it is this: Learn With Your Ears, Not With Your Eyes.

Okay, if you want to speak excellent english, you have got to learn with your ears; listening, listening, listening and more listening is the key to speaking excellent English. It is the most important thing. Because if you listen a lot, you are gonna learn vocabulary, you will learn grammar. You will get faster and you will understand better. Listening is the kind of the magic key to great English speaking.

There is a lot of research about this. And all shows the same thing. Listening the most important thing you can do. So this tells us one reason you probably have some trouble with your speaking. Why? Because again, when you learn English in school, you probably learned mostly with your eyes. Most English schools, midle schools, high school, university, private English schools, most of them focus on textbooks in the classroom.

I am sure, this has been true for you also. So, textbooks, textbooks, textbooks… So, that’s the problem. In school, basically you learn with your eyes, and basically in school you learned to write English. You also learned to think about English. So, you know about a lot of grammar rules. In fact you know more about grammar rules than most americans, most canadians, most british people. Because native speakers don’t study that stuff very much.

Native speakers learns to speak English with their ears, by listening, listening, listening… And that’s you must do, if you want to speak English quickly, easily, automatically, correctly just like a native speaker.

So , let me be little more specific about listening. Because it is important how you listen and what you listen too. The most important thing is you must listen to easy english. It must be easy. What do I mean by easy? Well, you should understand 95% or more, without stopping, without a dictionary. So that’s quite easy right? You wanna a lot of easy English listening. Now, you might try children’s programs.

You might try children’s audio books. Or may be audio books, you know, teenagers like americans who are 13, 14, 15 years old. If that’s too difficult, find something easier. You can listen to listening programs for very small children. Now if something more difficult, you can still use it. But you usually need the text. You need to be able to reed it. So, that’s also useful.

You can get an audio article or speech. Or a lessons even. And you have the text so, you can read and listen at the same time. That’s okay also. But listening the most important thing. Listen, listen, listen… Every chance you have. Get an ipot, get an mp3 player or ipod. Listen to English all the time. Listen in the morning when you get up. Listen when you go to work or when you are at home. Listen when you are at lunch. Listen when you are coming from work. Listen in the evening. Lots and lots and lots of English listening. Lots of easy English listening.

That’s your number one key. Listen to podcasts, listen to my videos. I have a free podcast, listen to that. Listen, listen, listen… Okay? It’s so simple, it’s easy and it’s super powerful. Please do this. Focus on listening, not on textbooks, not on learning with your eyes. Learn with your ears. It is the most powerful. Okay? So, that’s rule number 3. Tomorrow you will get the next e-mail. Effortless English Rule number 4. See you then. Bye, bye.

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33 Comments on Rule 3: Listening English

Abdullah on Fri, 7th Jan 2011 13:13

Hi this is Abdullah Sakhizada i am from Afghanistan I have 20 years old i reality love your speaking and teaching
I am so happy from your steerage i am very need to your lesson please accept me like you student ok bye see you soon

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nhi on Wed, 23rd May 2012 04:20

i am a student, i want clean english

anna on Tue, 4th Sep 2012 15:41

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Neelus on Mon, 3rd Dec 2012 07:07

I want tolearn perfect english.To speak good english i am watching videos like this one http://youtu.be/aaoPI4W2LuU it will help to speak better english.

admin on Tue, 4th Dec 2012 14:26

Hi Neelus, if you want to improve your English speaking, you should listen again and again. English listening activities must take %80 of your English study time. Listening English materials must understandable (easy) and interesting. Effortless English course has many interesting mp3 audio lessons. You can speak English in 6 months or less with Effortless English lessons. Click here to view more about Effortless English.

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Jose on Sun, 13th Jan 2013 12:29

Hi!

Thank you very much for thgis tip. I completelly agree on it. I would have saved some time had I been aware of its important when i started working on English language. And thank you also for the videos!!!

muskan on Mon, 21st Jan 2013 19:51

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