Effortless English Tips: Forced English Speaking

February 22, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
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Hi, I am AJ Hoge, the director of Effortless English. And welcome to today’s student question. This is also very common question. Here’s the queststion: AJ, shold I force myself to speak English?

My short answer is no. In general and in the Effortless English system, you do not force yourself to do anything. You know, In English learning especially, there are kind of two general attitudes. One is the willpower idea. So willpower is kind of mental force.

You push yourself to study, you make yourself to study. It is kind of an idea, feeling that English is difficult. English is not enjoyable, it is not fun. And you need a lot of dicipline and willpower and force to improve.

That’s the kind of anormal idea or method. Anormal attitude actually, it is not idea, it is attitude. Now another attitude, wich is the Effortless English attitude is that English can be very fun. English can be enjoyable and you shold not force yourself, you shold want to learn English, study English, practice English because you like it. Because it is so much fun.

I’ll give you an example of this. Let’s say you enjoy playing basketball, you love basketball. It is so much fun, you love it. Do you need to force yourself to practice or play basketball, in that situation? No, you want to. Every free moment, you want to run out and play basketball right. Some people are like this some kids love basketball so much, they alwasy want to play. There is no force, no willpower.  Is’s effortless because they love it so much. It is so fun and enjoyable for them.

Those people learn faster and get better and become more skilled then other people who trying to force it. So imagine the opposite; someone who really does not like basketball but they feel must learn it. So everyday they get out and say i must practice basketball, they may go out and trying to force themselves practice.

We know, everyone understands that with basketball the person who loves it is going to learn faster and become better. And the person trying to force it, eventually they’ll want to quit or they’ll learn much more slowly. They will never be is good.

We know that with sports. But English we have a different idea somehow. With English we think, “oh it is painful and we must force it. It is not true, it is exactly the same. If you use the right method, you will enjoy it. You will have more energy and you will want to do it everyday.

We have Effortless English members, who listen to English, practice English, two hourse, three hours and four hours a day. Now, they are not forcing themselves, it is fun for them. Thew love it, they enjoy it, they enjoy the lessons, they enjoy English. They enjot talking to people. It’s fun, it’s hobby. And those people learn so much faster. And their skill is so much higher because ther are not forcing.

So that’s why i say, never force yourself. If you feel you are forcing, that means something is wrong. It means, you have to change your method. Change your feelings, your motivation. You need to change something. You shold not need to force yourself.

And with speaking, specifically with speaking, don’t force yourself. If you want to speak, then of course speak English anytime you want to, sure speak English. Don’t worry about mistakes just speak. But if you feel really nervous and it makes you feel a lot of stres to try to speak then just relax.

Focus on more listening for a while. If you want to, you can focus on just listening for six months or seven months. By doing that, you will really improve your speaking a lot. By improving you listening, you will improve your speaking. And it is less stressful maybe. And after four months or five months or six months of just listening, you will eventually want to speak. You won’t need to force it. So do not force speaking. Speak when you want to, but don’t force it.

As today’s Effortless English question. To learn more about the Effortless English system, and join our free email course, go to effortlessenglishclub.com  bye bye.

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Effortless English Learning Method

February 20, 2013 by · 1 Comment
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Hi I am AJ Hoge, the director of the Effortless English Club. Time for today’s student question. This is a simple question. AJ, what is the Effortless English engine that you are always talking about?

The Effortless English engine is that called metaphor its just and idea to help explain our system. So if you can imagine again a car. Let’d imagine you have a car and you want to drive somewhere. You want to go fast and you want to enjoy it.

So you could have a very old, broken, stinky car that goes really slow and constantly breaks. And you could put some old dirty gasoline into it. And then that car would not drive well. It would take a long time to get to the destination. It might break along the way. And you propably would not enjoy driving it so much.

On the other hand, you could have a very fast, fun race car, powerful car. Like a Ferrari or someting like that. And you cuold put the best gasoline into it. Very clean super powerful race car fuel. And if you drove that car at the same destination you would go very fast and you propably would have a lot of fun.

So this is the idea of the Picture we use when we describe learning English. So the car that’s how you learn English, the destination is excellent English speaking. So you want to get to the point of speaking excellent English. And you need some method to get you there.

So the method that’s the car. So you think about that we have two parts of that right. Number one, we have the car or the engine. And the number two, we have the fuel, the energy we put into it. And you need both. If you have a great car, but no gas (or bad gas), it would not go quickly. It would not drive well.

If you have a great, super clean, the best possible gasoline fuel and you put it in old, bad car it will also drive badly. So you need both. So when we talk about those two things we say the car or engine, that is the method of learning English. It is the learning method.

In our Effortless English method we call that the seven rules of excellent English speaking. That’s our engine of Effortless English.  And we have a free email course that describe each of the 7 rules. Now, what is the gasoline? Gasoline is your motivation, your energy, your emotional power. That is also very important.

In our Effortless English system, especially in our Power English lessons or vip program, we teach you exactly how to increase your emotional power. How to increase your motivation. How to increase your confidence so that you feel stronger, more powerful, more energetic when you are learning English and when you are speaking English and anytime you are listening English.

So these two parts are both important. The energy, the motivation and also the specific learning method together. That creates the Effortless English engine. And It will help you get to excellent English speaking faster.

And that is today’s question. You can learn more on Effortless English Club and join our free email course. I will see you there, bye bye.

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Extra English Episode 30 Love Hurts

February 14, 2013 by · 1 Comment
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Watch Extra English Online Episode 3o with English subtitles. This is a very useful tv series for English learners. You can improve your English listening with fun.

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