You're in a job interview.
It's going well.
The interviewer asks you, tell me about a difficult problem you tried to solve.
And your mind goes blank.
You start thinking about grammar rules.
Is it I solved or is it I have solved?
Past tense or present perfect?
While you're thinking about grammar rules, the interviewer is staring at you, waiting.
You say nothing or you give a terrible answer.
The interview ends, you did not get the job.
What happened?
Why did you fail?
You know the grammar rules.
The truth is, grammar, grammar study, destroys your English speaking.
Today, I'm going to prove it to you and give you the method that actually works.
Let's go.
You've studied English for years.
Yeah, you know the grammar.
You pass the test.
But when someone asks you a question.
Okay.
So grammar study creates a mental block.
This is the problem, right?
Because you've got all these rules in your head.
How many years have you studied grammar rules?
And how many have you studied and tried to memorize, probably hundreds.
And what happens is, when you try to speak, your brain starts analyzing, analyzing English, analyzing grammar rules, and that creates mental interference, right.
That's what causes you to hesitate stop pause, even go blank completely and say nothing at all right.
It's what causes you to freeze up.
And this is even worse in high-pressure situations such as speaking to a native speaker or a job interview, anything like that.
So I remember I once had a student named Gladys.
This is a story that's in my book.
And Gladys was a super, super, super dedicated student, right?
This is way before effortless English.
I was just using normal textbook methods, you know, teaching at a school in the evenings.
This was in the United States in Georgia.
And she would come to my class.
And after class, she would always try to talk to me.
And she would show me all this extra study she was doing at home.
She was studying at home a lot.
Like doing a lot of extra study.
And she was really focused on grammar, grammar rules, taking notes and notes and notes.
You know pages and pages of notes.
And I thought, well, this is going to be my star student.
And I thought, I can't wait to see how much she improves.
She's going to improve.
Of course she's going to improve.
Look at all this work she's doing.
And at that time, I was just using the normal grammar translation method following the textbook.
So most of my lessons, most of my classes were focused on a grammar rule, you know.
So it would be, okay, today we're in chapter five.
We're going to study the present perfect.
And we would discuss all the rules of using the present perfect, when you use it, when you don't.
And then we'd do little practice exercises, right?
Normal stuff.
Well, let's fast forward six months later.
As usual, Gladys waits after class to try to chat with me a little bit.
And she's telling some simple story.
I don't remember the exact words, but she said something like, you know, yesterday I go to store.
And she spoke very in a very choppy way.
In other words, a lot of long, unnatural pauses.
So like, yesterday, I go to store, I see, you know, that kind of speaking.
And I just suddenly realized at that time, I thought, she has not improved at all.
Her speaking is just as bad.
Six months later, after six months of my and six months of very intensive independent grammar study.
Her speaking was just as bad.
Zero improvement.
None.
And this was an important point in time for me and an important moment when I realized something's wrong.
Something's wrong.
Like this method, what she's doing and what I'm doing in class, it's not working.
It's not helping her because they were there.
This was a class to help them speak English.
They were immigrants.
I think she was from Venezuela.
And you know they were there to learn to speak English so they could live in the United States and get better jobs.
So I realized, man, this grammar study, all that grammar study did not help her.
It didn't help her fluency.
She couldn't speak more quickly or more effortlessly.
And it did not help her grammar either, because she was still making the same grammar mistakes that she had six months before.
And a little while after that, I was coming to do another class.
And I was preparing for the class and looked at the chapter I was supposed to do.
And it was a chapter about articles.
The A&M.
The or the, T-H-E, right?
And I remember, I still remember it's such a strong memory that there were two pages of rules and explanations on how and when to use the word the T-H-E.
Perhaps the most common word in English, certainly one of the top ten.
And I just thought, this is crazy.
First of all, most of the rules I didn't even know and never had ever thought about them.
And then I there's no way I could remember them all myself, a native speaker.
And then I realized how there's no way there's no way.
That my students can learn and memorize two pages of rules about the word the and then remember all of that every time they speak English.
Because we use the word the and you know at least half the sentences that we use.
And if every time you need to use the word the, if every time you have to think about it and analyze it and remember those rules, should I use it, should I not?
And impossible.
It's just going to create so much interference in your brain, It's going to destroy your fluency and you're not going to be able to use it any better anyway.
It's not going to help at all.
So huge problem.
And this is when I started to think.
I think I need to change my teaching because this isn't going to work.
So here's the natural learning truth.
And this is what I discovered later in my teaching and in my career as I started to do more research and try different methods is that, first of all, native speakers we don't study grammar rules at all.
When we're learning to speak yeah, we study some grammar rules, you know, maybe at the high school level for writing, formal academic writing okay, but that's after we're already completely fluent when we start doing that.
Number two children don't memorize grammar rules or learn them at all.
I have twin seven-year-olds, almost seven, and they know zero.
They could not tell me, they don't even know what the past tense is, but of course they use it correctly.
So how can they use it correctly, do it as a skill, but they don't know the rules, they can't explain it right, and this is natural learning And there's actually a lot of research about this.
If you're interested in the research, check out a guy.
Do a search for a guy named Dr Stephen Krashen, K-R-A-S-H-E-N.
He did a huge amount of research on this topic, showing that all this kind of analysis and knowledge and what he calls linguistic study or analysis does not help you actually improve your speaking skill at all, and what we need is natural learning right, the way that babies learn a language, the way that native speakers learn speaking and grammar.
Of course we do use grammar and we use it correctly, but we don't learn it as rules, we don't analyze.
So what's the difference between real English and that textbook English that Gladys was studying and learning right?
First of all, native speakers, we break the formal rules all the time, okay?
So again what you're learning in your textbooks.
It's a very unnatural kind of English for speaking, certainly.
I'll give you an example.
I've been playing around with an AI chat, like a language learning chat bot.
And...
I was doing it in English because I wanted to test it for you know if I would recommend it to you to use.
So I did a little situation where, okay, I'm in a restaurant.
And so the AI says, hi, I'm your waitress today.
Welcome to the restaurant.
What would you like to drink?
And I said, yeah, okay, I'll have a water and give me a minute.
I want to look at the menu.
Totally common, natural response for me.
Obviously, I'm a native speaker, right?
It immediately gave me a grammar correction telling me not to use the article uh with the word water.
You don't say uh water.
And I just thought, oh my God, I'm imagining a student using this.
And they use this natural phrase, maybe a phrase they've heard native speakers use.
Maybe they've heard it in a movie.
Maybe they have native speaker friends that have gone to a restaurant.
They've heard them say that.
Yeah, I'll have a water.
So they think, well, that's a natural phrase.
They try to use it, and then the chat bot tells them it's wrong.
So now what's going to, all this confusion, right?
Start analyzing the grammar again.
When do I use articles?
Uh, well, uh, do I use uh with the word water?
Well, in a formal, written, academic kind of English, maybe not, depending on the situation.
But certainly in spoken English, we say it all the time.
Because the truth is, in English, It's just a short way of saying, I want a glass of water.
But we cut off glass of water.
We just say a water, right?
Because in natural speaking, we use fragments, what are called sentence fragments, right?
Just little phrases.
They're not full sentences.
We also use super long sentences sometimes.
We break all these so-called grammar rules in real natural speech, okay?
You want to focus on communication, not perfection, not some artificial academic type of rules.
Maybe those rules might be helpful for formal writing, but not for speaking.
They will destroy your speaking.
Textbooks are fake.
So how do you do it?
Let's talk about a four step method.
Here's a four step method to Improve your speaking and to kind of, you know, what we call it trauma.
English trauma is the joke that a lot of my members and students, the phrase they use.
I have English trauma.
It's right, because they have all these rules and now they're thinking and they get all stressed out when they try to speak.
And they say, I have English trauma.
AJ, how do I heal my English trauma?
Excuse me.
So here's a four-step method.
Number one, listen.
Focus on listening only.
Or at least 80% of your focus and time with English should be listening, listening, listening.
And you can do this not forever, but certainly for at least six months.
Number two, you want to focus on phrases, not individual words, and certainly not grammar rules.
So natural phrases that you hear in audios or lessons that you're listening to, any natural English you're listening to.
So you might hear that phrase, I'll have a water.
Great, use that.
You might write it down, study it, practice it.
Okay, don't worry, don't analyze it.
Oh, well, should they say uh?
It's so funny because, just like the chat bot, sometimes I get students, non-native speakers, trying to correct my grammar.
They'll say, AJ, you're not supposed to use uh in this situation.
It's just like, ah, you know, they're so paralyzed.
They're so programmed with all this grammar stuff.
They can't recognize the real natural language that we use in real life.
It doesn't matter if it's correct or not.
It's how we actually speak.
It doesn't matter if it's correct according to a book.
Number three, you want to use point of view stories.
These are a kind of lesson that certainly all my well not all, but certainly my Power English course, my main course, uses.
And also many of my VIP lessons use this as well.
And point of view is a.
It's basically it's a lesson where you listen to a story and it's told from different points of view in time.
So the grammar changes.
So, for example, one might be the present yeah hey, you know or even like the present progressive I'm going to the store and I'm getting, I don't know, a loaf of bread.
And then the story continues.
Then you'll hear that same story again.
Now it's about the past, like it already happened, right?
I went to the store, I bought a loaf of bread.
Of course, you'll notice that, yes, the The verb tenses change, but you don't need to analyze.
In fact, you don't want to analyze the rules.
Oh, now this is the simple past.
And now this is the present.
And oh, that's the progressive.
All that is just noise in your brain that creates interference that will hurt your fluency.
You just listen to it.
You just listen to it.
Notice the patterns and they kind of sink in after a while.
And number four, you want to just focus on the most common patterns first, okay?
A lot of students get focused on all these, you know, super complicated, difficult grammar points, for example, like I would have been hungry if I had not eaten right.
That's very complex and trying to figure out how to use that and what rules apply.
You don't need that, okay?
You can just Focus on the real simple stuff, like talking about the past, talking about now, talking about the future.
That will get you very, very, very far.
And once you can do those three basic things automatically effortlessly, very naturally, then the more advanced types of grammar patterns will become more understandable and more easy for you to use without memorizing rules.
And I've had so many students who have completely changed their speaking in about six months by following that four-step method.
Because they come frustrated.
Their minds are freezing up.
They know so many grammar rules.
They can explain grammar rules better than I can.
Some of them are like linguists.
But when they speak, they're terrible.
And then I tell them, you know, stop studying grammar.
They get the same message from me.
And they're so frustrated, they finally decide, okay, I'm just going to try it.
Sometimes maybe they don't even believe me, because they've learned their whole life that they must study grammar.
But I say, well, I'm going to try it because I have years and years of doing this other way.
They try it.
They do it, you know, for 30 days, six months.
And they start to feel a change.
They start to see a big change.
And then you know, usually after about six months It's like the words start to come out much more fluently.
And also, you know, another nice benefit of this is you start to relax more when you speak.
There's less tension, less nervousness, less stress, because you're not trying to think about everything and worrying about being perfect grammatically all the time.
So burn your grammar books, burn your textbooks, burn them.
You could have a little ritual take them outside, put them in a barbecue, put a little gasoline on them and light it up.
You say, this is the end of grammar study for me.
It might be a nice feeling.
Try it.
People have actually done it.
I say this kind of like a joke, but I've had students actually do it.
If you actually do it, send me a picture like on Instagram or something.
Tag me on Instagram.
I'm Effortless English Club on Instagram.
All right, so here's a 30-day commitment.
Do this.
30 days.
Just try it for 30 days.
If you don't quite believe me, you're not quite sure, try it for 30 days.
See what happens.
Okay, here's your challenge.
Number one, for 30 days, listen to natural, real English one hour a day.
Don't focus on reading.
Don't worry about speaking.
And please, please, please don't memorize vocab. and do not study grammar rules.
Try to forget them.
Number two, you only focus on those natural phrases.
As you're listening to things, you might notice little phrases.
See here?
It might pop out as interesting or useful.
You can write those down if you want to, or just notice them and keep listening.
Number three, the big one, stop analyzing grammar.
This might be a tough habit to break.
You might be in such a habit that you're so used to Analyzing and thinking about grammar rules.
You might need 30 days or more to break this habit, but do your best.
When you notice you're starting to think about grammar, just turn it off and relax.
And number four, accept mistakes.
Okay, when you make a mistake speaking, just don't even try to correct it.
Don't stop yourself and say, no, no, and try to go back and change the verb.
Just leave it.
Let it go.
We all make mistakes, okay?
You know, according to the AI bots, native speakers are constantly making mistakes all the time.
Who cares, okay?
Focus on communication.
Commit to this 30-day challenge of just doing these things.
Listening an hour a day.
Focus only on phrases, no rules.
Stop analyzing.
Break that mental habit and accept your mistakes.
Relax and just let those mistakes come out.
Don't worry about them at all.
Okay, so the truth about grammar.
Grammar destroys your English speaking.
Grammar study, grammar memorization.
It creates hesitation.
That sound when you're speaking.
It creates anxiety, nervousness.
That tension when you start to speak.
It's terrible.
Natural learning works best.
If you want to go into all the research, I believe his website is sdcrashin.com.
Check it out.
And then just listen, listen, listen, listen.
Focus on natural phrases.
Forget the rules.
Commit.
Don't quit.
All right.
We're live, by the way, on YouTube.
So If you have questions or comments, put them in now.
I'll go answer some live chat questions now.
And, by the way, if you want to take action, if you want to get more from me and learn more, I have a free email course where I teach.
It's called The Seven Rules.
Don't study grammar is rule number two, in fact.
And that's at my website, effortlessenglishclub.com.
Go to the bottom of the website and you can enter your email address.
And you'll get that free email course and learn all the seven rules.
If you really want a whole course from me and all the lessons to listen to, that follow my system.
I recommend my Power English course.
It's the best one to start with.
It's right there on the homepage, effortlessenglishclub.com.
And if you're watching on YouTube, the usual thing, subscribe, like.
All right, let's do it.
Chats live.
Let's see what people say.
First of all, just say hi to everybody.
I recognize some names.
I mean i good to see you.
As always, good morning from you.
Sorry, i started this stream and then my my internet is slow and it broke and it stopped.
I had to restart and start and do this whole show again.
I did about five minutes and then i had to start again.
So my apologies to those of you who joined and then I had to come back and start again.
Oh, yeah.
So let's see.
Some of these usernames are so long.
Okay.
Let's see.
Mohamed Enesalbyrock6465.
Quite a profile name says hello, your book club was amazing, sir.
Do you have ideas for continuing your book club?
Yes, i know the book clubs are popular.
Everybody loves that book club.
We've done some really cool books.
I keep saying i'm gonna do the book club and then i get busy and you know, i'm finally getting into now a more regular um show schedule again where i'm hopefully i can do two a week so i can keep doing this.
Then we'll get back to doing a book club.
We'll choose a book and we'll go through that book chapter by chapter.
I'll teach you some of the phrases and vocab.
We'll discuss the ideas.
It's really cool.
We've done some really good ones.
We've done Animal Farm, Brave New World.
What other ones?
I'm trying to think of the really popular ones.
The Khalil, not Khalil Garan, Paulo Coelho book.
The Alchemist.
That was a good one.
All right.
Hi, I'm from the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan.
It's after midnight here.
Thanks for staying up late.
I'll continue watching.
You have many Arab students learning English and you're very popular.
Well, thank you.
And yes, I know I do have a lot of Arab students actually through the whole Middle East.
Also in Iran, unfortunately, because of sanctions, they can't get everything I do.
But actually worldwide, Brazil, Japan, all through Europe.
Latin America?
The whole world.
All right.
Let's see.
Next comment.
Nerly Beck Diana.
Hi.
It says, hi, AJ.
I learned English listening to your live shows.
Great.
I took the IELTS test and got a 65.
Now i'm in the usa waiting for my acceptance letter from university.
Nice, nice success story.
Love to hear them.
If you have a success story, put it in the chat because i this motivates me to keep doing these when i know that you are getting great results.
And you know changes people's lives, they can really learn to speak fluently like this.
So and that's just using my live shows, you know, i think the The courses will.
You know, they make it all my courses.
They make this easier, more convenient, maybe a little faster.
But absolutely, I've got so many podcasts now, so many YouTube shows.
That's a ton of natural listening.
And I talk very conversationally usually and use natural phrases.
So that's a huge amount of English language input you can get just from my shows.
And of course, there's a lot of other content.
YouTube in podcasts find things you like AV6R says you've shared a lot of videos lately I guess short videos you're talking about and you made four live streams recently curious why you haven't done this before would be helpful if you do this every day the short videos uh will be every day because they're just cut pieces from my long show right from this from my live streams so the shorts are easy i can just have them chopped up and then put them out every single day little pieces and there's they're just clips from my podcast this show to do a live show every day i think about 10 years ago i did that but uh i'm just been too busy the truth is I you know so that I have twins and there just been a lot of some of you may know you know one of my kids had some medical issues and several surgeries and so just because of all that I've been super busy in my life and now things are finally getting more relaxed in my life so right now my goal is two live streams a week and then take pieces from the live streams and put them out as shorts every single day so some people just like to I like doing this it's like a real connection I can answer your questions see your chats so I enjoy the live streams and just talking longer but uh you know a lot of people out there just want short clips so this is the easy way for me to make short clips I don't really like making them I like just taking pieces out so that's my current plan and we'll see maybe someday I get back to doing a live stream every day that's quite a lot Mansur Bahaduri says I hope you're doing well I am Mansur Bahaduri from Afghanistan how can I join your class without an email well all my teachings are online So just go to my website, effortlessenglishclub.com, and that's where you'll find my free email course, all my blog posts and articles, all my courses.
Everything's at that website.
Okay, Lin Pham, sounds like a Vietnamese name to me, says, Hi, AJ teacher, I'm so happy to see you.
I'm 38 years old, and I just follow your methods.
I have just followed your methods for over a year.
I can feel that my English has improved a lot.
Thanks so much.
You rock.
Awesome.
There you go.
You will improve.
Yeah, it works.
This is why I do it.
I've been teaching over 30 years.
That's my new intro.
Did you like the intro?
I love it.
That rock intro.
This is the Effortless English Show.
Bye.
It fits my style and personality better than the old one.
The old one was a little boring, but I kind of like that one.
But anyway yeah, you know I teach it this way now because I have so much experience teaching people all ages everywhere in the world.
And this works for learning to speak fluently and confidently and effortlessly, meaning you feel relaxed and you've got great communication skills.
These methods work and the old methods didn't.
I tried them.
You know, in the beginning of my teaching career, I did all the normal stuff.
I used the normal textbooks and the normal methods and what almost everybody else is doing.
And I just saw again and again and again and again students did not actually improve their speaking and listening ability.
They did not improve after six months, one year, two years no improvement.
I mean, how many of you studied english for 10 years in school and after all that you still couldn't speak?
Well, you could barely speak at all?
Right, something's wrong.
Those methods don't work, they just don't work.
And so You know, the next step is I had to figure out what does work.
And that's the effortless English system.
Should we read or not read grammar?
Grammar rules, I mean, I guess you are asking.
And the name, the profile is Education Hub Coaching.
Don't.
Don't.
It's the whole point of this show.
Don't read grammar rules.
Stop.
Burn your grammar books.
I'm only half joking about that.
You can actually do it if you want.
It's a nice little.
It'll send a nice message to your subconscious mind if you burn your grammar books.
We know the story of Cortes from Spain.
They came in their ships to the new world.
They landed and he burned his ships.
Why did he burn the ships?
So that his sailors would be motivated to send a message to them.
We're not going to just run away and go back to Spain.
We are here.
And we are going to stay here and explore this new world, right?
So that's kind of why I say burn your grammar books.
Burn your textbooks.
It's the same idea.
It sends the message to your mind.
I am done with these methods.
I am committed to this new method.
Okay.
Rais Azam says, hey man, what's up?
You're looking so good.
Well, thank you.
You are a great and marvelous coach and teacher.
You made a huge change in my life through your effort.
I listen to so much beautiful English speakers such as Stephen Krashen.
Awesome.
Yeah, Stephen Krashen.
There's some videos out there of him talking some speeches or lectures that he gave.
You can find those too if you're curious about the research.
Asma, good to see you, Asma.
You're an amazing teacher.
I love how your explanations are so simple and easy to understand.
They even make me laugh.
Seeing you always makes me feel enthusiastic.
I'm watching you from Egypt.
Well, thank you so much.
Thank you.
You know, one of the important points of, I think, doing anything, learning anything, is it should be enjoyable.
When you hate something, it's very hard to keep doing it.
And to get good at it, right?
Amina asks, Hi AJ, how have you been?
How are your kids?
What kind of books do you like to read usually?
Okay, so let's see, there's a bunch.
I've been great, doing great.
Having a good time.
Talking to you right now from Osaka, Japan.
We're here for about half the year.
And what's your next question?
How are your kids?
They're both doing very well.
That's why I now have more time.
And let's see.
What kind of books do you like to read usually?
I'd say usually I, for the last year, two years, I, well, it's a couple things.
Practically I've been learning so much about brain therapy neurology Zolk, physical therapy.
This is all because of one of my children so fascinating doesn't quite fit the English learning the topics that I do on this channel, but I've been learning a lot about that and and using a lot and trying a lot of the methods.
And then the other thing I read a lot about, you know, spiritual or religious topics.
That's been lately, and and and just recently, like just this month, i've really gotten interested in ai and because, because the ai has gotten really good, as i talked about in a recent show, my visit to san francisco sort of changed my idea about ai, because i tried ai, played around chat, gpt and a few things a couple years ago.
A few years ago i don't remember exactly and It was you know.
I thought at that time this is okay.
It's okay.
And I remember at that time reading about oh, they're trying to work on self-driving cars, robot cars.
But they're still having a lot of problems.
So I just kind of, that's my, that was my idea.
And then we visited San Francisco coming to Japan.
We stopped in San Francisco.
And there are all these, I mean, hundreds of robot taxis, self-driving cars using AI technology.
And, you know, robotic cars.
They're everywhere.
It's not an idea anymore.
It's a business.
They're charging money.
I mean, I'm driving around.
I'm seeing all these weird cars with cameras all over them.
And at first, I didn't even notice that there was no driver.
And then one time I looked over and there's nobody in the car.
And they're everywhere.
And I realized, whoa, it's here now.
This is not the future.
It's now right now.
And then I've started playing around recently with a bunch of AI tools that do different things, including the common ones like chat, GPT and Claude.
And wow, they have improved a lot in the last few years.
Really good now.
So I'm really going deep in this because this is going to change our whole world and the economy and job markets.
In the next five years, everything is going to change.
It's a little scary, honestly.
But anyway, reading about that.
Oh, here's a Japanese person.
Shinji... Is it Shinji Yokoyama?
Nice to see you, Shinji.
Hi there, AJ.
It's been a long time.
How are you doing in Osaka today?
Doing very well.
I'm thankful that you're doing Effortless English, a live show today.
Thank you.
In fact, today we're making mochi.
We're going over to my sister-in-law's house, me and our family, my wife and the kids.
We're going to go over there and, with her kids, we're going to make mochi in her apartment like the old way.
So you get a big wood or a big wood thing, and you put cooked rice into it and you get a huge, giant wooden hammer mallet.
And then you smash, you hit the rice and then you do it again and smash.
Smash.
And you have to keep doing it a long time and it smashes it up to make mochi, which is like that, really super gooey sticky rice stuff.
So we're going to make it by hand today, and the kids get to smack the rice, which they like.
Education Hub Coaching says, Sir, your teaching style is unique.
It has given us a lot of things.
Thank you.
Are you living in japan now?
Uh, just part-time, really just a long visit.
We, our residence, where we live, is in indiana, in the united states, but we keep an apartment here in um osaka and uh, so we stay here, kind of.
Our plan, at least from now, is to stay here part of the year and then part of the year in indiana.
Okay, Donio Tony says Hello, AJ Hogue.
Your English method is working for me.
I'm improving my English.
I'm listening to your videos every day.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Commit.
Don't quit.
Okay, Bargy Chilsada says I don't study grammar, but when I read something, a sentence, I sometimes get curious about the grammar.
So I just check it out.
Yeah, it's fine.
It's fine.
Just don't try to memorize it.
If you enjoy doing that, that won't hurt.
Amina asks, how many hours a day do you sleep?
About eight.
Let's see, 10, 30, 60.
Yeah, eight and a half.
When I'm lucky.
When the kids don't wake me up earlier.
Oh, AB6R says, I've recently seen your post on Instagram about English for engineers.
Is it available soon?
Yeah, I want to do a course or at least just videos.
Yeah.
Free videos, even just on YouTube, about English for engineers and also English for medical, because I have a lot.
A lot of my students are engineers or work in the medical field or in some kind of business.
So I already have a business English course on my website, but I don't have medical or engineering specifically yet.
So I would like to do that.
But the truth is, I have to learn more about it.
You know, so I've done business.
I've worked in businesses.
I have my own business.
So the business English course was easy for me to do.
But I'm not an engineer and I'm not a doctor or a nurse.
So I think I'm learning so much about some of the medical stuff because of again because of my child.
That one I could probably do pretty easily.
The engineering one will take.
I'll need to do a lot of research and learn a lot first, but I do plan to do it still.
Oh yeah, Shinji says I met you eight years ago and still keep enjoying your course and podcast.
You're a genius.
My wife and my two kids are planning to visit you, if it's okay, before you leave Osaka this summer.
Yeah, that'd be great, perfect.
Yeah, we're leaving um In the summer, so maybe a very early summer or sometime in the spring would be great.
Just let me know.
Give me a warning.
Tell me a couple of weeks before you come so we can figure out a time and place to meet.
I can meet you downtown, like in the Namba station area, would be an easy place if that would work for you.
Just let me know.
Sala White says I'm still using that lesson you gave in a video about a couple of friends visiting Tony Robbins.
Yeah.
I know what you're talking about.
I study by watching it over and over until I grasp, understand the concepts and finally understand them.
Perfect.
That's how you do it.
That's a nice video.
It's a real conversation.
Very interesting.
The topic, they're talking about business and it's, that's cool.
Great.
I'm still doing it every day, with many interviews and value added.
I learned about many issues.
Yes, this is a good point that cello white makes that and i'll.
I've done shows about this.
I'll do more about this topic but um, it's best when your english learning actually has interesting topics that help you in life.
Right?
You're not.
You're not focused on the language so much.
Right, people get so obsessed, so focused on just Vocab grammar pronunciation, all these you know English English, English.
But I think a lot of the time, it's great if you're learning things in English for your life.
So you're interested in business, so you're studying business.
You're learning new business ideas, new business skills.
You're doing it in English.
But you're really mostly focused on the topic.
And when you do that, you kind of relax about the English.
And when you relax about the English you actually remember it better because you're connecting it to real-world.
Useful ideas skills, concepts.
That's an important point.
That's another reason you know the English lessons, even if they're some computer online thing or AI thing.
They're often just boring, because you're not really learning anything useful for life.
You're just completely focused on english only and the actual topic is super boring and so your brain just kind of turns off a little bit.
When you do that, it's not very, not a very enjoyable way to learn.
And tinjo says i'm happy to hear you had such a fine time.
Well, we're going to have a fun time with making the mochi suki.
Correct, that's the making the mochi, smashing the rice.
Is it for National Foundation Day?
It is, yes.
Today's a holiday in Japan.
Correct.
Hello, Dai... Let's see.
Dai Yumson says, Hello, the legendary AJ Hogue is live.
Yes.
By the way, did you like the new intro for the show?
With the rock and roll intro.
This is the Everless English Show.
I like it.
It's kind of it's a bit over the top, but i like it.
Stay as you are.
Says, if someone listens to english podcasts and movies for three hours a day or more for two years, will they reach a level of understanding of 95?
Well, it's hard for me to say exactly, but you should get great results doing that.
I think uh, we have to understand when we have this kind of question is the quality of your listening is important.
What does that mean?
Well, it means your level of focus and concentration.
So some people they're listening, but you know, for example, you turn an audio on, it's in the background, you're doing other things, your brain is kind of sleepy tired, So you're kind of listening.
It's still helpful, but you're not really focused on it.
You're not really concentrating on it, right?
It's helpful, but maybe just a little helpful.
On the other hand, you could take that same listening, let's say for an hour, and you've got headphones on and you're up and you're standing and you're moving.
Excuse me.
You're up and you're standing and you're moving energized, and you're completely focused.
You're listening very, very carefully, trying to notice all the words, all the phrases, the pronunciation, everything.
Highly concentrated, focused, active listening.
That is the best kind and you're going to get a much bigger benefit from that.
So if you're doing three hours of that every day with podcasts and movies yeah, I don't know about 95 percent, i don't know exact percent but you're going to make a huge improvement in two years.
Absolutely, if you don't, you're doing something wrong.
Yeah thanks, shinjo.
Just tell me about when you can make it.
You can um, if you, if you've got any of my courses we have a community now.
You can just, you know, put your contact information there.
You could uh, Leave me a comment or a message on Instagram.
So get in touch with me.
Let me know when you're coming to Osaka.
All right.
I think that is the end.
Okay, so don't study grammar, right?
It messes with your, it interferes with, it blocks your actual natural fluency.
Okay.
Lots of love to you.
I will see you again soon.
Commit, don't quit. m by for now.
