Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, AJ Hogue, where AJ's more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all, without the boring textbooks, classrooms and grammar drills.
Here's AJ with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.
Howdy started learning English. at age 12.
By age 25, after 18 years of studying, he could only read.
He still could not speak, not even simple conversations.
And today he speaks English fluently for hours.
I've talked to him many times.
He's one of our VIP members.
This is exactly how he transformed in 18 months and the system you can start using today.
Let's actually watch a video from Hadi talking about his experience.
Pull it up here.
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Share my screen and hopefully you'll be able to hear this.
Okay, so this is Hadi.
This is a video he sent me where he talks about his experience.
And he's being interviewed by another one of my students, another VIP member.
All right, let's see.
Hopefully you can hear.
Okay, here we go.
I always liked to learn English from my childhood, maybe 12 years old.
And the thing where I learned English was school, like every child.
And in the school I was very motivated to learn English because I liked to talk to other people from foreign countries and it was so interesting for me decided to learn English very good.
But in school, the teaching method was not good, and I just could learn how to read in English.
But after a while, when I was about maybe 25 years old, I don't know I tried many different methods, many different methods, many different textbooks.
Most of them were textbooks and they didn't help more.
I just could read well, but I couldn't speak well.
Okay.
So this is a common problem, as we all know, right?
A very big problem is that People study English for years and years and years and years and they still can't speak.
They can read.
They can pass English tests.
They can do all kinds of things like that, but they cannot actually speak English fluently.
They can't have conversations.
They can't talk to native speakers.
This is a huge problem.
Huge, huge, huge problem.
So what are we going to do about it?
What can you do about it?
All right, excuse me.
Taking notes here.
Okay, so he started learning at age 12 in school, right?
And then he studied in school like most people, just probably like you did.
He was very motivated to learn English.
So his problem was not laziness.
He wasn't lazy.
He's an intelligent man.
He's an engineer, in fact, so very intelligent.
And he said, I was motivated to learn English because I like to talk to other people.
I wanted to talk to other people.
But at age 25, I still could not have conversations.
I only could read.
Huge problem.
Let's go to now what happened and how he changed this.
Finally, I found someone named AJ Hoy from YouTube and there were seven rules, and those seven rules was all of my experiences.
I had experienced those things And when he spoke about them, I found that yeah, they are really great.
And I used that method and I, yeah.
Which method you used for learning English?
The method AJ Hogue says is emotional.
And by psychology, he teaches English, not by teaching grammar rules and not by vocabulary.
He just speaks about some great topics, motivational topics, and you learn by that, by your subconscious, not by your vocabulary and grammar.
Interesting.
Harry, nice to see you, and maybe I hope I will talk to you soon.
Okay, and that's the video.
All right, let's talk about what Hadi did, because you know this is.
It's great for me to say these things, but I think it's important that you hear this from other people who are like you.
I'm a native speaker.
I'm an English teacher, right?
But it's important that you hear from students, from people like you.
You know, these are common problems.
So many people have these exact same problems, this exact experience.
I mean, this is what influenced my english teaching over the years i've been doing it over 20 years now were these kind of stories, again and again and again the same thing, people saying oh, i studied english 15 years.
I studied english 18 years.
I I did elementary school, I did middle school, high school university, language schools, test preparation and still couldn't speak, still can't speak, can't speak well,
And the frustration.
And so this is why I developed a whole different way of teaching, because I was tired of seeing students make no improvements and we need real life, face to face communication right, and so obviously, the turning point.
What changed for him?
He said i found someone named aj hogue that's me on youtube and there were seven rules and i have an email course.
It's called seven rules for speaking english fluently and you can get it on my website.
You can look in the description below.
There's a link if you want to get that free email course down there.
And he says those seven rules were all of my experiences.
When he spoke about them I felt yeah, they are really great.
So those rules and those rules, I describe the effortless English way of learning English so that you can really speak.
Right.
And one of the rules, maybe the most popular rule is rule number two.
Don't study grammar rules.
Don't study grammar rules.
Don't memorize grammar rules.
You're listening to me.
You've already studied a lot of grammar rules in school and you're probably frustrated by that.
You don't need more.
Okay, that's the last thing you need.
You don't want to be thinking about verb conjugations and translations and all of that stuff in your head while you're trying to speak.
Okay, forget it.
It's in there somewhere.
Maybe it'll be useful later in life, but it's the last thing you actually want to do, okay.
So You know, as he went through my seven rules course and he watched the videos and read the emails, he was saying yeah, this is my experience.
This is exactly what happened to me.
This is what I experienced in school.
And these are the same frustrations and problems.
And he realized, ah, this is a better way.
I'm going to try it.
He said, I use that method.
He started using my method.
Now he eventually got my Power English course and became a VIP member, but it's the method that's most important.
What's the system that made the difference for him?
He said, A.J.
Hoke teaches English not by teaching grammar and not by teaching vocabulary lists.
These are a couple of my rules, in fact, of those seven rules.
He teaches English by psychology.
He just speaks about some great motivational topics.
That's an important one.
We'll discuss it in a minute.
You learn that by yourself, not by vocabulary memorization and not by grammar rules.
So the key principle here is emotional learning instead of mechanical learning memorization, because that's the old way, that's the way so many people do it and even now, you know there are all these apps out there Duolingo, things like that but you know what?
They still use the same basic mechanical methods.
Okay, they put it on a website, maybe they make little games and they have graphics, but it's still the same basic approach.
You know, the technology may be different, but the method is still the same.
They're still trying to get you to remember all all these grammar rules and memorize all this vocabulary.
It doesn't work.
Emotional learning works because it's unconscious.
Right?
It's the way.
I have two young children and they actually they're bilingual, they're learning two languages, they have two native languages, English and Japanese.
Okay, and I tell you, they do not sit around studying vocabulary lists and they certainly they couldn't even tell me a grammar rule If I asked them, if I said what is the past tense?
What is the present perfect tense?
They have no idea, but they speak fluently.
They know the grammar because they've learned it in natural ways, with emotions, with stories and a whole lot of different ways.
They use correct grammar, but they don't need to know the rules.
And that's what you need to do if you want to speak like them, their native speakers.
What's the foundation?
How do you do this?
Let's get specific.
During your first six months.
He did this in 18 months.
In 18 months, he went from only reading to speaking as you heard him on the video.
Okay.
And like I said, he can talk and talk and talk.
I've had Zoom calls with him where, you know, we discuss where he and his group discuss books.
They have a book club so he can talk and talk and talk now very fluently, very relaxed and effortlessly.
So the first six months, 18 months, that's very realistic.
That's a very realistic timeframe.
Okay.
The first six months you focus on listening repeatedly to motivational content.
This is important.
This is that emotional part.
Content, right?
Audios primarily.
And you can do a little reading to help you understand audios.
But listening to motivational content, repeatedly that motivational content, the inspirational content, that kind of audio, it brings up positive emotions.
And then you connect that to English as you're learning.
It actually helps you remember more naturally without effort and to enjoy the process.
Enjoying it is actually very important.
You learn naturally through context, not rules, right?
You learn through situations, stories, not by memorizing rules.
You build an emotional connection to English, a strong positive, powerful emotional connection to English.
Extremely important.
No grammar, meaning no grammar textbooks, no vocabulary lists.
Yes, you still do learn grammar, but in a natural way.
Yes, you do learn new words again, naturally.
OK, after that, that's the six months.
And on my website, you'll see we have a six month guarantee, a money back guarantee for my courses.
What do you do after that six months?
Speaking activation, I think, is the thing to focus on from month seven to 12.
Here's what Hadi did.
And this is I think he felt a very good plan.
He found conversation practice opportunities, right?
A chance to talk to other people.
They don't have to be native speakers.
They can be other English learners.
You can do this in a number of ways.
I'll give you some resources and ideas.
There are websites like italki.
There are a lot of different ones out there where you can find conversation partners to practice English with.
He joined my vip program and he also joined on in my vip program.
They made a group.
Some of them got a lot of vip members, but some of them made a little group, a zoom group, and every week they would meet on zoom people from all different countries, all different places around the world and they did their group as a book club, so each week they would read one chapter in a book.
Then they had a zoom call.
Of course the book is English language book, a book in English, but a motivational book, an interesting book.
And they would read one chapter and then they would all get together on Zoom and discuss it in English, right?
So he applied what he absorbed through listening, right?
This is why motivational topics, success topics, inspirational topics are important, because if you're just listening to random, boring lessons, they have no use for your life, right?
But if you listen to topics that are helpful, that you can actually take the information you learn in English and then use it in your life, you'll be much more excited about that English, it'll be more useful, you'll be more focused and therefore you'll remember it and learn it better.
Build during this months 7 to 12.
You build confidence through real communication.
This is so important.
You want to actually talk to people.
Don't worry about mistakes.
Don't worry about being perfect.
It's perfection is not possible.
I'm not even perfect in English and I'm a native speaker.
I'm 58 years old okay, so it's fine.
You know native speakers don't care about your mistakes people don't care about.
And he continued during that seven month, seven to 12.
He continued with the emotional learning method, right?
After six months, he finished that Power English course.
Then he moved on to my VIP program in month seven to 12.
So he kept listening.
You continue listening.
You continue using the same emotional learning method, listening focused.
But then you add in this speaking activation in that second phase.
Okay.
And then finally, months 13 to 18 is where you really focus on mastery.
So Hadi is working as a mechanical engineer using english.
So this is now.
This is a higher level, right.
This is kind of a business english level, a career level, certainly more advanced.
So that next six month period right, months 13 to 18 is the master period.
This is where you are going to focus in on areas in your life where you want to really be a master of English.
He got confident, introducing himself, discussing his work, having more and more complicated and deep conversations in English.
Part of this again, was that book club that he joined and where they would discuss these books, and these books had philosophical ideas.
You know, these were Books that had fairly complex ideas and he had to talk about his emotions, how he felt about the book, his ideas philosophy, right.
Getting into much higher levels of discussion.
And then in that months, 13 to 18, that mastery phase.
That's when you'll find, usually typically, that you will start speaking English, naturally without translating in your head.
And without thinking in grammar rules at all, where you're just speaking English and you're not connecting it to any of that other stuff.
It's just coming out.
It's flowing out, right?
That's why I call this effortless English.
It means at this point, your English speaking has become effortless.
It feels like speaking your own language.
You still might have some pronunciation issues.
You might make some mistakes.
You probably will.
No big deal, but you're fluent and it feels effortless.
You're not translating anymore.
You're not analyzing the language.
You're not trying to remember grammar rules.
None of that, right?
That's the mastery phase.
Okay, so let's talk about now.
You know what could you do to even improve the method in 2026 right now.
Okay.
And you know, I think there are a lot of things that you could do, where you could add in some tools.
So, for example, you know, AI tools.
You could use AI.
There's this cool thing I found that there are a few different AI tools.
There's one called HeyGen that I've been playing around with.
And what it will do is it will take a video of you.
So you could take a video of yourself speaking your own language.
Then you put that video into the ai and it will translate it to english, which is what you're learning, and what it will do is we'll dub it so you could.
It will actually you'll have a video, or you can just do voice.
I think there's one called 11, 11 labs.
Let me check it real quick.
Uh, let's see audio.
Ai, it's 11 something.
I'll tell you what the full name see 11 labs, 11 labs.
So what you can do, i think for your english learning, you don't even need the video.
I think the just audio will be fine.
You could use 11 labs and what it will do is you record yourself, it will copy your voice, it will learn your voice and learn to copy your voice.
Then you can translate.
You could use Heijin or some other AI to translate and then create an audio of any English.
You could just find text.
You could take one of my lessons.
I have text guides for all my lessons.
You could put it into the AI.
It will make an audio of that text, but in your own voice.
And then you listen to that.
So you're hearing yourself.
You're hearing your own voice speaking english fluently, with correct pronunciation, and i think this could be an extremely powerful and interesting tool, because now you're training.
Not only are you hearing a native speaker like me speaking english and that's great listening practice, that's going to help you a lot but if you hear your own voice speaking english, It's going to connect in your brain like ah, this is what I need to sound like.
And this is unconscious.
You don't have to think about it.
Okay.
But I think it's powerful that you can start using some of these AI tools where they would automatically translate English any English text that you could find and create an audio and do it in your own voice.
And you could.
Even, you know, you could modify these AI tools where, if you want to yourself speaking with an american accent, you could hear yourself speaking with a a british accent.
You could even probably probably, do some of them do regional accents, so you could do an american southern accent if you want to.
And then really, and then what i would recommend doing is then shadow, use the shadowing technique.
Look on my youtube channel, do a search for shadowing and i'll give you step by step how to do it so you could shadow your own voice, speaking english, a perfect accent.
So i think that would be if you want to go to the next phase.
The next phase, i would say after that 18 month point and this is what i would recommend to someone like hadi would then start bringing in these ai tools and perfecting your pronunciation.
I do have a pronunciation course on my website and you could take text from that course, do the course and then use the ai tools to do it in your own voice.
Then shadow, use the shadowing technique with your own voice, with those audios.
And this is going to, man, it's amazing.
It's going to jump up your levels of fluency and power and you're going to get results as good or even better than what Hadi has done.
And of course, Hadi didn't stop.
He's still now, he's still improving his English now.
But 18 months, that's pretty amazing.
You know, He did all those years from age 12 to 25.
So that's actually about 13 years, right?
13 years of English to get basically zero speaking ability.
And then 18 months of effortless English and using these methods to full fluency.
And a very nice high level of fluency.
It is possible.
All right, let's take some questions now.
We're live here on YouTube.
Okay, just going to go back and review here the comments and questions.
Okay, here's a good, a very common question.
AV6R is the user.
He says is there any problem if I speak English without a good accent?
But I can communicate with all people without any problems.
So he's saying basically that he's fluent.
He's got very, you know, fairly effortless speech, but he's got an accent.
His pronunciation is not, doesn't sound native.
He doesn't have an American accent or a British accent.
Is this a problem?
It's only a problem if people don't understand you.
So this is what I always say about pronunciations.
Do you have to sound exactly like an American or a British or a native speaker?
You know perfect, perfect pronunciation in that way.
No, that's not necessary.
It just needs to be clear, right?
So if your pronunciation causes problems with understanding, right?
You say something and other people go, huh, what?
And other people constantly have difficulty understanding you, then obviously that is a pronunciation problem.
That's a problem you need to fix.
You need to improve your pronunciation.
But if you have a bit of an accent, but everybody understands you.
Well, native speakers understand you, people from other, different countries who speak English as a foreign language, they understand you.
If everyone understands you very easily, yeah, don't worry about it.
It's no big deal.
If you have a little bit of an accent, you're fine.
Your pronunciation is fine.
Some people you know they really want to have that super high level perfect, native like pronunciation.
That's okay if that's your goal, but I'd say overall, for most people the key point of pronunciation is just be understandable.
Right, everyone understands you easily and then that's good enough.
We've got people from lots of countries here saying hi.
From Guatemala, from Brazil.
Lots of people from Brazil.
Good.
Airbear Tatade says, I'm doing the 10-day trial.
That would be my VIP program.
You can do a $1 trial for 10 days.
James Smith says, I'm glad you're back.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad I'm back too.
Texoy English is the username says the seven rules have changed my life in terms of learning and teaching English.
So this person's even they learned English.
Now they're teaching it to other people in their own country or in their own uh town, wherever they live.
Yeah fantastic, the seven rules have changed a lot of lives.
This it's a very different way of learning English and uh, Why suffer for years and years and years, right?
Kumkam5315 says, I have talked to my daughter in English since she was a baby.
Now she can speak English well.
And the most interesting part is, I did not teach her mom, but she can speak just like my daughter by listening to us.
Well, isn't that cool?
So...
He has been talking to his daughter in English as a baby, so she's learned it just the same as all babies learn it.
But the cool thing is that his wife, the daughter's mom, has just been in the room while he does this, and just by listening to him talk to the baby, she's also learned English.
This is the power of learning it naturally.
I didn't find the Flow or Real English Conversations course on your website, says AB6R.
Yeah, that's because Flow English actually, I think it's unfortunately.
You know that, so Flow English.
I made that course with my friend Chris Moses many years ago.
But he owned that course.
I just helped him out.
I think he is, I think it's no longer active in a case.
Stop selling that course unfortunately, and then learn real english.
They also, joe and kristin, my good friends, who i just saw recently in san francisco, had a nice visit with them and they also, they kind of retired from teaching english.
So all the current effortless english courses are on my website, effortlessenglishclubcom.
It's on the screen if you're watching video.
Okay, Jonas Taleb says AJ, do you think that English will stay the dominant language in the future?
Well, you know, I have no ability to see the future.
My guess is yes.
Simply because, especially with the internet now, it's just now, you know, it's so established.
Excuse me.
It's so established, right?
It's everywhere in the world now, English is used as the kind of global language.
And it's used in so many areas of life, you know diplomacy and business and science and international conferences and even just entertainment online.
So I think it's kind of like you know the keyboard.
You know when you have a keyboard, we have the.
You know there's the system of it's called QWERTY because it goes Q-W-E-R-T-Y right, and they people have done studies that show that this is not the best way to arrange the or organize the keys on a keyboard.
There are faster ways.
You know, if you put the letters in different spots, people can actually type faster.
So why don't they do it?
Well, it's just because everybody's used to this, right everywhere around the world, people that for english at least, people use this system and so now to change it to something else would be huge, and you know millions, perhaps billions of people would have to learn how to type differently.
You know all over again and they're not going to do that.
And i think it's a similar situation with english.
It's just now so established as the global language that i think it's just going to continue to to be so.
And the internet and has made this even stronger.
You know you can make good arguments for other languages.
I think Spanish, for example, would be an easier one overall.
It's a more consistent language, especially in terms of writing and spelling and things and pronunciation.
But I think English will continue to be the one.
Greetings from Colombia Egypt India, all over the place.
Okay, let's see bukhanov.
Muhammad says your videos are the best videos on this earth.
Thank you, i'm not lying.
Your english and your way of speaking words and all this clarification, it's just super amazing.
Well, it's very nice.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, greetings and good afternoon from nicaragua.
What about the spanish course using your method in spanish?
Is it effective?
Absolutely, it's effective.
And I have one I can recommend.
If you want to learn Spanish, the one I would recommend is UnlimitedSpanish.com.
UnlimitedSpanish.com.
That is a course from my friend Oscar, who lives in Spain, who is from Spain.
And I used that course myself when I was 11 years ago.
When I traveled in Spain and in a few months it really activated my Spanish and I was able to get around again, not speaking perfectly, not really effortlessly, because I didn't do it long enough three, four months.
But but wow, it really helped me just communicate.
I was able to go from basically not being able to say anything to being able to, you know, call up, make reservations, have easy conversations, chat.
And it's a very fun great course and he's got more courses now that are more advanced.
So unlimited spanishcom if you.
If you want to learn spanish with this same kind of method.
I highly recommend oscar's course and he was a student of mine.
He he actually learned english from my course, my power english course and my, and he joined my vaip program too and then he became he's really really, really good at english.
He's a Very high level English speaker.
And then he decided, hey, I'm going to make a course for Spanish learners.
And he did.
And now he's got several courses.
So check out his website.
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua.
I've recently started smoking cigars a little bit.
And I have to say, I think Nicaragua currently has the best cigars in the world.
Okay, Hamas.
Iglesias says AJ, what is your advice for me after all these years of experience to improve my reading skills?
Okay, reading.
That's a great question.
Number one, read for pleasure.
Okay.
So what does that mean?
It means read things you enjoy.
Right?
I know this is basic, but this actually comes from a lot of research from a man named Dr. Krashen.
Dr. Stephen Krashen.
And he wrote a whole book about reading and reading skills for native speakers and also for people learning English as a foreign language.
And he focused a lot of his research and study on this exact topic of reading.
And the number one thing he found is, okay, read real books and read for pleasure.
He calls it free voluntary reading.
So in other words, not reading textbooks, not reading skills, whatever that means.
Not reading things and then trying to answer a bunch of questions about what you read and all the top you know.
No, just reading for pleasure.
It could be comic books.
It could be simple stories.
I mean, I've got a bunch of books over here.
Let's see.
You know, so for example, you could read something like this.
This is Prince Caspian.
It's a book by C.S.
Lewis, probably the most famous book.
It's a series of books, and the most famous one is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
It's not too tough, fairly short, but it's a full novel, though.
It's a novel, right?
So what I recommend is you get books like this.
I've recommended the Hardy Boys books.
So these are books.
If your reading skills are not great, you might start it.
Books that are written more for, like uh, kids.
But you know a lot of kids in the United States read this book, like my children.
I'm going to read this book to them soon.
They're only six so they can't read it themselves yet, but I'll read it aloud to them.
Right now we're reading Lord of the Rings, so get some books like that that you enjoy.
The second suggestion I have for reading is that you should combine reading the text with the audiobook, with the audio versions so, for example, you read one chapter in a book and then you go back and then you listen to that same chapter right in the audiobook and you can listen.
While while you're listening, you can read along.
You know, just follow with your.
You know follow with your finger as you're reading.
Why is that important?
Because you're going to hear the correct pronunciation of all the words you're seeing.
And in English, that can be sometimes difficult, right?
As I said, some languages like Spanish, it's super easy.
You see a word, you know how to pronounce it already.
But in English, you don't like the word ought.
Just looking at this page, O-U-G-H-T.
Well, if you saw that word O-U-G-H-T.
If you're just reading it and you've got no audio, You might be.
If it's a new word, you might be like what is this word?
How do I pronounce it?
But if you hear it in the audio while you're reading it, you'll just hear the word ought.
You're following with your finger.
You connect the sound, the correct pronunciation to what you're seeing with your eyes, the text.
And in that way you'll learn both vocabulary for speaking audio and you'll learn to correctly pronounce words that you read.
So I think combining those two.
And then step three for improving your reading is to use a lot of e-books, because the great thing about an e-book is that you can highlight or click on individual words and a definition.
It'll pop up and tell you the meaning.
So you see a new word.
Let's just...
If you have this kind of, you know, a paper book, these are nice.
I like them.
But, you know, if you find a new word, you got to go look it up on the dictionary separately, right?
So let's just see if I can find a word that might be difficult for somebody.
Indistinctly.
Okay, there's a word.
Indistinctly.
So let's say you're reading this and you come and you find this word indistinctly in the book.
You know, what does that mean?
I have no idea.
If you have a paper book well, now you got to go pull out your phone or your computer and type it in, right?
But if you have an e-book, you can just you know, or either on your phone you could just tap it with your finger.
And most e-readers have a dictionary connected.
So you just tap it with your finger and it'll pop up and tell you what it means.
And then you just keep reading.
You could write it down if you want to really remember it, review it later, or you could just keep going and eventually you'll see it again and again.
You can tap it every time you see it and eventually you'll remember it, and that's a nice natural, pleasant way to improve reading and do it naturally.
Okay, and you guys have long usernames, okay.
Hernanis Sosa Vieira, 3032.
Okay, it says, hi, AJ.
I would like to thank you.
You were the first person I was able to understand with no translation.
And I realized that I could speak English fluently.
I got your course and your videos.
Well, congratulations to you.
You followed that same method, I'm sure, that I just discussed in this show.
Ilta7Med says, AJ, I really appreciate your content.
You are welcome.
Okay.
Surendra Bindani says how did you get this much ideas, these many ideas of teaching English in this way, teaching this language?
You know, speaking a language and teaching.
I want to know how did you improve those strategies to teach English?
Well, that's a fairly long story.
How did how did I become?
Uh, you know why did I change?
Right, why do I teach English in such a different way?
It all started long ago, you know.
As I said, I've been teaching English.
Actually, my first teaching English job was in South Korea back in 1990.
Let me think.
Six oh six sixteen, so what?
30 years ago?
Wow, all right.
And Andy, I taught in Japan, taught in Thailand and I taught in the United States.
I taught immigrants in the United States.
So, of course, for many of those years, in the beginning I just did the same methods as everybody else I would.
I was working at a school.
I guess I don't need headphones.
I was working at a school and or schools, different schools universities, language schools, things like that.
And you know they would.
They gave me the textbooks that they used and they gave me the curriculum and I just followed it.
And I did what most teachers would do.
So, you know, class would come in, everyone sits down and say, OK, open your book to page 24.
All right, page 24, lesson one.
And I would read it out, you know, chapter seven, the present perfect tense.
And then I would read and discuss all the rules of the present perfect tense.
When do you use it?
How do you use it?
Then we would do little exercises.
Maybe they would get in pairs and talk and read dialogues.
You know I have been to japan 10 times.
Oh, how many times have you been to japan?
And right, so i did all that.
And what happened is i realized that okay, i would be teaching these classes for six months a year and at the end of six months, the end of a year.
Like zero improvement for my students in real world communication.
Okay yes, They would take tests and they would pass the tests.
So they knew the information.
But how did I know they were not improving?
Because after class, I would chat with them.
Sometimes I would go to a coffee shop with them.
I would actually try to talk to them.
Ask them about their life, you know, have little conversations.
And after six months, they were still terrible.
They still couldn't, there was no change in their speaking ability.
So that, well, I started thinking, well, this is not good.
I'm wasting my time.
I'm wasting their times.
Something's wrong.
Something's very wrong.
You know, in my book, I write about this and talk about my journey.
But this was the motivation to change because I was like, well, what's the point?
We're all just wasting time, you know, because they were there to learn to speak.
And it wasn't working.
So then I started doing all this research.
I actually got a master's degree in teaching English and started researching all these other methods.
And, you know, this is a good life skill, by the way.
I would just try things.
So I'd learn about a method.
TPR, using physical actions to teach language.
Okay, that sounds interesting.
I'll just try it in class and usually the first time i tried it it was a big failure, a disaster.
I didn't really know how to do it.
Well, the students were totally confused because it was some strange, weird method.
I was trying and uh, it would, i would fail, like what happened.
I'd go back, do more research, keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.
Sometimes i decided oh, this method is uh, it doesn't work, It's not good for me or it's not working.
Students hate it, whatever.
But then sometimes I found methods that really did work very well, such as TPRS developed by Blaine Ray.
What a great method that was.
I started doing it in my classes.
Even when I did it badly in the beginning and didn't really know how to do it, I saw improvements.
And so I actually went.
I got trained.
I went to several workshops and seminars and trainings from Blaine Ray himself and his son Bon Ray.
And I got better and better and better at doing that.
It's one of the key methods I use in my courses.
And so I just kept doing that.
And over the years you know, over 30 years the method got better and better and better and more and more and more different than the standard, the standard old, usual ways.
So that's how I did it.
That's what you have to do if you want to improve in life.
Is you got to be willing to first look for different ways of doing things?
You've got to be willing to try a lot of different methods.
You've got to be willing to fail and even look foolish for a while, because when you try something new, many times you'll fail, And I'm sure I know I did.
I looked foolish to my students many times in the classroom in the beginning, in those beginning years.
I'd be trying these things, not really knowing how to do them.
And I had a lot of terrible classes where the students would be looking at me like what is happening.
I don't understand at all.
They were just confused, right?
You have to be willing to suffer through some of that and get better and get better.
And then that's eventually how you Can make huge improvements.
Okay, Hama Agla says, do you think grammar is so important for intermediate students?
Grammar study?
No.
I know you don't like grammar, just your opinion after all these years of teaching.
It's not important.
In fact, it's harmful.
Now again, we're talking about speaking.
And for writing, maybe a different argument for speaking.
No, your students, if they're intermediate i promise they have already studied grammar a lot.
It's all in their head somewhere, all these rules, but obviously the rules are not helping them actually use it naturally in real life communication.
So just doing more of it it's just.
It just makes them Stop and think more and more.
Do I use the present perfect?
Do I use the simple past here?
All these things in their head just makes their speaking worse and even their understanding worse.
No.
Don't do it.
When you get to the high levels, like past that mastery, past the 18-month point, you want to start focusing on writing.
Then you can maybe bring back some of those grammar rules.
With writing, you have time.
You can just sit there and think about it.
Hmm, which grammar tense should I use here?
Hmm, you know, is this correct grammar?
You can take time.
There's no hurry.
But in a conversation, you don't want to do that.
There's no time to do that.
Asjodat5s says, I got your course.
It has helped me a lot.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Honestly, sometimes I felt bored to stay committed, but I kept going and kept doing the audios for two weeks.
So deep learning is another one of my rules.
And I've got a bunch of videos about how to handle that boredom issue if you're trying to do a lot of deep learning.
How do you keep it interesting?
How do you keep it fresh even when you've listened to the same thing 20 times, 30 times?
It's a skill.
You've got to learn how to do that.
Oh, wow.
And Black MM says, I started taking your lessons.
I've been doing it for six months, starting at basically zero.
So starting as a total beginner.
And now I think now I'm B1 level.
Thank you so much.
That's pretty impressive in six months from zero to B1.
Usually my lessons, people start. at a kind of intermediate, low intermediate level.
But some people do just start at total zero.
It's a little more difficult to start at super low beginner with my lessons because they're designed more for low intermediate and middle intermediate students.
My basic Power English course, my VIP programs for higher level people.
MMO2LD says, from the land of Mesopotamia, we love you.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Rais Azam says, hello, my beautiful man.
Well, thank you.
You're a super good man.
You changed my life.
I learned so much from you.
I changed my life 180 degrees.
You inspired me.
I read many books like the Geronimo series, all because of you.
Thank you.
You know, I love hearing these.
Thank you so much.
You know, this motivates me to keep going because I like to hear your success stories.
That's why I shared Hadi's success.
I've got some more videos of other people have sent me or made for me of success stories.
And I'll do more shows about those.
It's nice to hear from other people, right?
Not just me.
Okay, a couple more, and then I'm done.
I remember my first lesson was the Elvis the Spider story I heard from you.
It was awesome.
Says me, W8I.
Elvis the Spider.
Yeah, there's a lot of funny stories in my courses.
I know Elvis the Spider.
I remember that one.
Uh...
Abdul Rahman Hassan says is it okay if I read a mini story text and then answer the questions myself?
For example, I ask myself questions.
Yes, you can do that.
You know, sometimes if the audio feels a little too fast for you, you can actually just start with the text and read it out loud and then answer it.
Ask and answer the questions out loud just using the text.
Totally fine to do that if you find the audio's a little tough.
But I do recommend still listen to the audio because you need that input.
Very important.
But you can certainly use the text guides as you want.
Ahmad Khan says, how many courses do you have?
I have five of your courses.
Are there more?
Let's see.
I've got Power English course, the main ones, power english course, the vip program, business english course, pronunciation course and then my oldest one it's called the original course.
So that's five, five that are currently available.
Maybe i'll talk to kristen and joe and see if we can republish that learn real english course.
All right, i think i'm gonna do One more and then I'm done.
Okay, this is a fairly complex question.
Itamed says, how can I express my true nature through my vocal tone?
Interesting.
How can I express my true nature?
So you want to, I think, basically saying how do I sound natural through my vocal tone?
Assume you're talking about in English.
This can be an issue right, when you're using or speaking a language that you're not native in, right?
So, for example, maybe in your own language, when you speak, you use a very confident tone.
Hi, how you doing?
My name is AJ and I'm an English teacher and you maybe you can have a lower, a low voice and, oh you know, very manly and confident, And then maybe you know you start.
So maybe you know if you're speaking your own language, let's say Arabic, and in Arabic you sound confident.
Then you start speaking English and you find that something happens because you're not feeling confident.
That your whole tone changes and you're like, oh, hi, my name is, my name is Hassan.
Nice to meet you.
Right?
And you find that, first of all, you're nonverbal, like your face.
The way you're using your body changes your, your confident body language in arabic and in english.
Suddenly it changes.
Your shoulders come down, you're looking down more and then your voice tone changes and it sounds now.
It sounds unsure, it sounds weaker, because when you're speaking english, this is very very, very common.
This is an emotional issue.
Okay, this is not about your language ability.
This is why you know, In addition to the seven rules of Effortless English, I have something called the Effortless English Engine.
And if you have one of my courses, you know, because in every lesson I say it right where I tell you to have your shoulders back, your chin up, to use a strong, loud voice, right?
So it's very important when you're practicing English, when you're speaking it.
If you're using one of my mini stories and you're shouting even when you're listening.
It's very important to train yourself emotionally.
You need to connect feelings of confidence power enthusiasm, strength to the English language, to hearing the English language and to speaking it.
Even if you make huge mistakes in English, even if your pronunciation is not good, you can still sound confident.
Right.
So this is about using your it's about training.
You have to actually train this and you do it by all those ways I discuss in my in my lessons.
And then I've done it on go back and look at a bunch of my YouTube videos.
I've talked about this topic many, many times.
But the essential thing is you're going to when you're listening to English.
It's why it's important that you don't just kind of, you know, sit in a chair with your shoulders down and your head down and all that.
You don't want to do that.
Okay, very important.
You don't do that because you're kind of training yourself to be kind of, to be in that position to have low energy, which is a low confidence, body posture, body position.
While you're listening to english.
You're going to connect that feeling to english and it's bad, not good.
You want to do the opposite shoulders back, head up, strong voice smile, all these things.
You do that every time you listen to English.
You do that every time you speak English, every time you're practicing English.
And then they become connected automatically, unconsciously in your brain.
So when you speak English, you will sound confident.
You'll be your normal, natural self, even if you do make mistakes.
Right?
Makes sense, doesn't it?
All right, then.
All right.
I think that's about it then for our show today.
All right.
So let's talk about it.
Let's recap what we did today.
So we listened to Tati's story at the beginning of the show, right?
He studied for 13 years the wrong way.
13 years of English, and he could not really speak, only read.
Then he found the Effortless English Method.
He listened to my seven rules, got my seven rules email course.
He started using the Effortless English Method.
In 18 months, he transformed.
He completely changed his English and became a fluent, confident, natural English speaker.
You don't need to keep going for 13 more years.
You can do everything Hadi did in 18 months.
You can make big, big improvements in even six months.
Okay, you just need to use the right method.
Start using the right method.
Go to my website, effortlessenglishclubcom.
You can enter your email there to get the free email course you can.
There's a menu there that has all my courses i recommend most people i recommend they start with the power english course.
If you're more advanced, you could certainly do the vip program.
If you need business English, of course I have that course.
Or if you really want to work on pronunciation, like one of our commenters today was concerned was worried about pronunciation.
I've got a course for that too.
Okay, no grammar rules, no vocabulary lists.
Learn with the effortless English method and you can get that same exact results.
The same system that was used by Hadi.
All right, that is all for today.
Lots of love to you.
Great seeing you live and I'll be back again soon.
Until then, you know, share this video, please.
If you like this video, you know, I got to say all this YouTube stuff.
I usually don't do it, but I'll say it.
Okay, hit the like button, subscribe.
Most of all, share it.
If you know other people who are learning English.
You've got friends or family members And maybe they're struggling.
Maybe they have these same problems that Hadi had.
Or maybe that you have had in the past.
Share my YouTube channel.
Share my website.
Share this video with them.
Put it on your social media.
So that they can also find a better method for learning English.
Okay.
Lots of love to you.
Lots of love to you.
See you next time.
Bye.
Thank you.
