English for years, five grammar rules forget them all.
You study grammar for years, but can't speak fluently.
Today I'm giving you five grammar rules to forget because they are blocking your English fluency.
You know the feeling someone asks you a question and You start to give an answer, and then your brain starts to analyze.
Maybe it's an article like the or an.
Is this noun, is it countable or uncountable?
Do I say a or no article?
Do I use the?
And while you're doing that, the other person is just staring at you.
Your speech has all of these long, unnatural pauses.
It's terrible.
Your fluency gets killed.
So today I'm telling you the five grammar rules to forget and what to do instead.
You've studied English for years.
Yeah, yeah.
You know the grammar.
You passed the test.
But when someone asks you a question your mind goes We're the world's number one English teacher.
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We're going to talk about the five grammar rules.
And why these grammar rules are killing your fluency.
Because they do.
They're fluency killers.
They stop you from speaking naturally and automatically.
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All right, so why grammar kills fluency.
So here's the problem.
You guys know it, right?
It's the thing I talk about all the time is when you are Thinking about grammar rules.
It just kills your speaking.
Native speakers don't think about grammar rules.
You don't think about grammar rules in your language when you're speaking to someone, right?
You don't do it.
Absolutely not.
Kids don't do it.
Kids don't learn grammar rules, right?
They don't sit there and go, uh, right?
My seven-year-old kids don't even know any grammar rules.
They could not tell you.
They don't know what subject verb agreement is.
They don't know any of it, but they use it correctly.
And if you are doing that you, if you, if you're thinking about grammar and grammar rules while you're speaking, your speaking is probably terrible, right.
So i had you know.
In my book i describe a story of two of my students.
This is back when i was teaching in san francisco genie and jackie, both korean, both about the same age, Both starting my class at about the same level, about the same level of ability.
And what happened?
They both started and I told them, you know, look, here's the deal.
Don't study grammar rules, right?
I said don't do it.
Don't study grammar rules.
Instead, here's what i want you to do i want you to just learn naturally, right?
This was the beginning.
This is when i was just developing the effortless english system.
So jeannie took my advice and she stopped studying grammar rules.
And jackie these were their nicknames jackie continued to go crazy with grammar study, all these books.
She would always bring me all these books, test preparation books, grammar study books, studied and studied and studied.
Just, i don't know, you know, i think she was just trained in school, trained back in korea, to obsess over grammar, to go crazy focusing on grammar.
And she just, you know, she didn't want to listen to me, she thought my advice sounded crazy, so she didn't listen to me.
You know we fast forward.
Six months later, you know, no surprise here, genie had improved tremendously.
Her speaking fluency.
Her ability to communicate, to speak quickly and automatically and effortlessly was much much, much better.
Huge improvements.
And Jackie, her speaking did not improve at all.
Now I'm sure her you know her linguistic knowledge she could probably discuss grammar rules very well.
She probably could analyze English better than Jeannie, probably better than me.
But, uh, But none of that helped her actual speaking.
None of that helped her actual fluency, okay?
That's why grammar rules kill fluency.
So let's talk about.
I think these are the five that people in my experience that students focus on too much.
These are the five most common grammar rules that cause this destruction of fluency.
All right, number one, articles.
I like to share this story all the time because in my last video, I talked about this.
One day, this was in Georgia in the United States.
I was teaching immigrants English.
This was way before effortless English.
And I would just go to the textbook and teach whatever the lesson was, right?
Like everybody else.
And the lesson was articles.
Articles are a were uh, an and the right, which in english, we use very very very, very frequently.
Some languages don't have these.
Some have them, but they have genders, like you know, l or la in spanish, for example.
Japanese doesn't have these at all, so Teaching you know this lesson on articles.
I was preparing for the lesson and I'm reading it, and it's two pages of rules for the word the.
In fact, let me just pull this up.
Let me see if I can pull this up now on the internet.
Let's see.
Grammar rules for using the article the.
How to use the.
All right.
Here's one from a university, Purdue.
That's actually in Indiana.
All right.
Let's pull it up.
What is an article?
Basically, an article is an adjective.
Like adjectives, articles modify nouns.
English has two articles, the and a or an.
The is used to refer to specific or particular nouns.
A and an are used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns.
We call the the definitive article.
Uh and an are the indefinite articles definite and not definitive.
Definite and indefinite.
For example, if i say let's read the book, i mean a specific book.
If i say let's read a book, i mean any book.
Remember, using uh or and depends on the sound that begins the next word.
So now you gotta think about the sound of the next word, right?
Definitive article, definite.
I keep saying definitive, definite article.
The, the definite article, is used before singular and plural nouns when the noun is specific or particular.
The signals the signals that the noun is definite and it refers to a particular member.
Count and non-count nouns.
Oh, now it gets more complicated.
The can be used with non-count nouns or the article can be omitted entirely.
So we can use it or we can omit it, not use it.
Most of the time, you can't say she wants a water.
I'll talk about a story about that.
Geographical use of the.
There are some specific rules for using the with geographical nouns.
Do not use the before, and then it gives countries, cities, streets, mountains, continents, islands.
Do use before rivers.
Points on the globe, geographical areas deserts, forests.
Omission of articles.
Some common types.
Good Lord.
Good Lord.
Can you remember all of that?
Are you confused?
You know, comment confused if you're confused, because that confuses me.
And that was my reaction preparing for that lesson.
I was and it was on and on.
That's actually a pretty short one.
The textbook I was using had two pages of rules for the when to use it, when not to use it, when you can sometimes use it.
I mean, I can use it for rivers, but not but not mountains or countries.
Oh, my God.
So.
There's no way you can remember all that when you're speaking.
There's no way you're speaking.
Someone says, you know, where did you go on your vacation?
You have no time to think, I went to the Mexico or I went to Mexico.
You just got to say something, okay?
And the truth is it doesn't matter, okay, if you make a mistake.
What does matter is if you go uh, because you're trying to think about articles.
You know terrible terrible, absolutely terrible.
The next one, perfect tenses.
This gets a lot of people.
Some languages don't have these perfect tenses or it's done in a different way.
Perfect tense is like you know um, I have been to the store, I have been to Russia, or I had eaten, or you know you get it, or I will have eaten by five o'clock today.
You know something like that right, so again.
So this is extremely confusing if you have to think about it.
I'm not going to read you more boring grammar rules, don't worry.
I can't handle it.
Okay, but it's the same thing.
You'll find in grammar textbooks in English learning textbooks.
In English classes you probably learned pages and pages of rules for when to use the different perfect tenses.
The problem is, again, you have no time in speaking.
These rules might be helpful in writing.
I think, even in writing, on your first draft.
You know, the first time you're writing an essay, an article, anything I don't think you want to be thinking about all this stuff because you'll never get it done, okay.
You'll never finish it.
It's just you want to do, even with writing, I suggest you just write it as fast as you can.
And then with writing.
The nice thing about writing is you can do it slowly, so then afterwards you go back and then you can think about grammar if you want to, and check it and, you know, use apps or whatever to try to correct your grammar.
That's fine, but in speaking can't do that at all.
You just got to talk.
Okay, you got to talk.
So how do you learn perfect tenses so that you use them correctly?
And point of view stories, the stories that i use in my lessons and my courses.
This is the best way, why?
Because i These are stories that are designed to teach you spoken grammar, especially the most common ones, including the perfect tenses.
OK, but to do it in the natural way.
The natural way, the way kids learn, the way you must learn to use it in speech fluently.
Is you just you hearing it used correctly?
OK, so I'll tell a story first in the present tense.
You know, john went to.
I mean in the present, john goes to the store and john buys ice cream, and the story continues.
So you have a whole version talking about the story happening now.
Then i'll tell the same story.
The next lesson will be i'll tell the same story again, but now i'm describing it in the past.
John went to the store, he bought an ice cream.
It was good.
You know right not, i don't discuss the simple past tense, i don't discuss the present perfect tense or the past perfect tense or other tenses that are used in the story.
I just tell the story, naturally shifting the time point of view right, and then i'll tell the story again as if it's going to happen in the future, like i'm imagining it.
I imagine that you know tomorrow Tomorrow, John's going to go to the store.
Gonna.
That's a good one.
Going to.
We often say gonna in real speech.
Not in writing, but in real speech.
So anyway, I'll tell the story as if it's going to happen in the future, right?
So by listening to each of these versions of the same exact story.
But you'll hear, you'll notice the changes.
The verbs will change.
Sometimes other phrases will change.
Other grammar might change.
But you do not need to think about all the rules.
You do not even need to think about why.
In fact, I recommend don't think about why the changes are happening.
It's just going to confuse you.
It just creates an extra step in your brain.
Just listen and repeat, listen and repeat, listen and repeat.
And eventually you get a feeling.
Dr. Stephen Krashen, great language researcher, describes this as a feeling for correctness.
It's what you have in your own native language.
It's what I have in English.
It just means you just know when it's right because it just sounds right.
It sounds right.
It feels right.
Why?
Because you've heard these natural, real stories and other input, other audios.
So you know when it sounds correct.
And then you'll start to actually use it when you speak without trying to remember any rules.
You've got to do it this way.
Okay, number three, number three, grammar rule number three to forget.
Stop worrying about modal verbs, modal verbs, even the name.
What the heck is a modal verb?
Ask most native speakers.
They won't even be able to tell you what this is.
What's a modal verb?
I have no idea.
Okay.
Should, would, could, must, might, may.
Okay.
Another one that creates tons of confusion, and you need to use this one quite commonly, for example, ordering something.
You go to Starbucks, right?
And you know I've seen people do it students, you know.
Again in San Francisco I would take them out.
We'd go to coffee, for example, and I'd see some of them just kind of freeze up when they're standing in front of the Starbucks worker.
Look, right?
And they're like, What are they doing?
They're trying to think, do I say, can I have iced coffee?
Could I get an iced coffee?
May I have an iced coffee?
Would it trouble you, sir, to give me an iced coffee, right?
It's super formal, right?
They get all crazy about this and try to remember rules and guidelines, for which ones are more formal, which ones they use.
It's crazy.
It doesn't matter.
The truth is any of them are fine, okay?
I think, you know, just be casual.
Just say, can I have?
Can I have?
You can use this in any restaurant, even a five-star Michelin restaurant that's $500 per meal.
You can still say, yeah, can I have the steak?
Okay.
It's no big deal.
You do not want to be thinking about these rules.
Again.
It just creates all this unnecessary stress and hesitation for no reason.
Okay, for no reason, it doesn't matter.
You don't need to analyze all these levels of formality.
First of all, in english certainly american english is not so concerned with levels of formality.
You don't want to be rude, you don't want to say yeah, give me you know a lot of, it's just tone of voice give me a steak right, that's rude, but uh, steak please.
You could just say that.
You don't even have to use a modal verb, okay?
So you just focus on communication, not these rules.
Again, you'll start to get these.
You listen to the mini stories.
You listen to even just podcasts.
You listen to movies, all these things, the more and more and more.
You start to get these natural phrases.
I mean, that's rule number one of the effortless English method is, you know, to learn phrases.
And this is how you're going to get these natural phrases that will just come out And you don't need to think about any of this.
There's no need for stress.
And really, it doesn't matter.
Nobody cares, okay?
If you want to get all formal like a British lord from 200 years ago.
You know, would it trouble you sir, if I ordered a steak please?
You know, something like that.
Not necessary.
All right.
The next rule to forget, stop worrying about, conditionals, another one that drives people crazy.
I've seen people, students, go crazy analyzing this, right?
First, second, third, mixed conditionals, right?
What would you do if, what would you do if you won the lottery?
So again, people get oh, they start trying to analyze these little charts in the textbook and, oh my God, what do I do?
And again, it just kills your fluency.
And the theme, the thing you can see with each of these is that you're switching your brain from natural fluency letting things just come out, focusing on communication.
Instead, you're turning over to analyzing, becoming a linguist and trying to analyze the structure of the language, which is maybe interesting for some people, but it doesn't help you speak fluently.
All right.
So someone just says, what would you do if you won the lottery?
What would a native speaker do?
Oh, I'd buy a new car.
Right.
There's no pause.
There's no thinking about rules.
They just instantly just come out.
And they don't worry about trying to answer in big, long sentences right, if I won the lottery then I would buy a new car.
This is maybe what they'll expect on some kind of test in school, but for real conversation, you can just say buy a car.
You don't even have to say I would.
If you're confused about that, don't even say it, just answer the question okay.
Or just guess and say it okay, just get it out, get it out.
Focus on fluency fluency fluency right, getting things out quickly.
Stop focusing on worrying about mistakes and do not think about the rules at all.
Forget them really, i'm saying it, forget it.
So how will you get better with this?
How will you improve?
Just like with all the other rules, my listen and answer many stories are great for this.
Again, you're get, you're hearing a story.
I'm asking you questions, these questions.
I use this in a specific way, this technique.
The way I say the questions and then your answers you give as you listen.
They're designed to repeat repeat repeat, repeat target grammar that I'm trying to teach you.
But in the lesson, I'm teaching you in a natural way.
I don't want you even thinking about the grammar.
I hope you don't even notice.
I just hope it just goes in there and it becomes unconscious and automatic.
I don't want you even noticing.
Oh, he's using a conditional.
Please don't even think about that.
You just listen to the story.
Follow how I tell you to do it.
Shout your answers as I tell you to do.
And repeat, repeat, repeat with deep learning.
And then you're going to get this grammar.
It is going to get in there.
You will improve without focusing on it.
Sometimes in life some things are better when you learn them naturally and you don't focus on them.
You'll see this in sports a lot, right?
Sometimes in sports the worst thing to do is to focus on your technique too much, to analyze it too much.
Golfers, I use golfers as an example because it's such a common example.
That golfers, when they're practicing, swings right, they go to a coach and the coach starts giving them all these things to think about.
Oh, your grip, you know, you got to move your finger more this way.
And then, oh, your wrist is too tight.
Make a looser wrist.
Make sure you, when you bring it back up, you bring it up straight this angle, not too far back.
And as you're coming down, your hips should move first.
And so then they have like five things to think about when they're hitting the ball, and actually they start hitting it worse.
It gets worse.
Their swing gets worse because now they're analyzing.
There's no feeling.
They're not focused on how the swing feels, right?
They're focused on all these things in their brain and then it actually causes them to get stiffer and they hit the ball worse, okay.
That's what it's like when you focus on grammar rules.
All right, the last one, subject-verb agreement.
This is maybe the most common one that people uh, worry about the most.
Right, he go, he goes right, is it?
He go, he goes right.
And it can get confusing.
I even get confusing sometimes with a long sentence.
Um, because you know, sometimes you'll, you'll the, you'll have a clause or a part where there's there it singular, and then there's a, you add a plural part and then the verb comes.
You're like which one is it?
Again, don't think about it, because if you start analyzing it and worrying it, what does it do?
It stops you again.
Stopping is the killer of fluency.
It's the opposite of fluency, right.
It causes that when you're speaking right, which is terrible, kills your communication.
Truth number one it doesn't matter.
Nobody cares if you make a mistake.
All right.
If you say, yesterday I go to the store.
If you say, he go, he go to the store tomorrow.
Is it wrong?
Of course it's wrong.
So what?
Nobody cares.
Right.
No one's going to laugh.
Ha ha ha.
You conjugated the verb wrong.
Oh ha ha.
The subject doesn't agree with the verb.
Oh my God.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
All right.
What they do care is do they still understand what you're saying?
Do they understand the information?
Are you still communicating well?
Yes, even with the mistake, it's still clear and understandable.
So who cares?
It doesn't matter.
Relax.
Just get it out.
Now, I know you do want to have more correctness.
And again, where does this come from?
Deep deep, deep listening.
That's where this repetition repetition repeating repeating, repeating your audios many many, many times.
That's how all those natural phrases start to sink in.
Inside those phrases are correct, subject verb agreement inside the sentences you're listening to okay, so you're getting huge amounts of repetition where the subject and the verb do agree And by listening to one audio 30 times, let's say over two weeks, those will sink in.
They'll start to become part of your natural speaking vocabulary, your natural fluency.
And they'll just start coming out more and more and more naturally and more and more correctly.
He goes to work.
They go to work.
She has a car.
Everyone is ready.
It just pops out, pops out, pops out.
That's what you want.
And if a mistake comes out, who cares?
It doesn't matter.
You will get better.
You will improve.
Just trust it.
You will improve.
So stop worrying about mistakes.
I make mistakes like this sometimes too, especially with long, long sentences.
And it can get confusing.
It doesn't matter.
Here's what I want you to do.
Your action plan.
At least, at least a six-month grammar holiday starting today.
Starting today.
Starting today.
Forget all grammar.
I said in the last video, you know, to burn your grammar books.
Yeah, that's fun.
Do it.
Share me a video on Instagram or something and say you know, here's me burning my grammar book and tag me on Instagram.
Effortless English Club on Instagram.
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All right.
Six-month grammar holiday starting now for six months.
Trust me.
This is the challenge I gave to my students Jeannie and Jackie, way back when I was teaching in San Francisco right.
I gave them the same challenge.
Stop studying grammar rules.
Just stop.
Stop, stop, stop.
Do these things.
I said you know, focusing on phrases, listening to the stories deep, deep learning.
And, you know, Jeannie said, okay, I'll do it.
And Jackie did not do it.
And after six months, there was a big difference between the two.
They started about the same.
Six months later, Jeannie speaking fluently, Jackie not.
So I encourage you, I'm challenging you to do this six-month grammar holiday.
After that, if you see no improvement and if you don't believe me fine, go back and study your grammar rules, okay.
So during the first month, it will feel weird if you're really used to focusing on grammar, okay?
A lot of people are kind of grammar Nazis, okay?
They've been all their lives in school grammar grammar grammar grammar, and it's really hard for them to let go.
So it might feel weird.
After month two, you're going to notice that you're understanding more.
You're still in the listening phase, okay?
Month three, you'll notice that you're not translating as much.
You're not as stressed.
You're thinking less and just talking more freely.
Maybe still making a lot of mistakes, but at least it's coming out more effortlessly.
And then in months four and five is when you really start to see your confidence going up.
You'll start to realize that ah, my fluency is improving.
And by month six you'll notice your fluency is improving, but you'll also notice that your grammar is improving automatically, even though you're not focusing on it.
So that's the magic of doing this.
I encourage you, just try for six months, okay?
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Dayumson said, I went to Grammarland.
Sounds like a bad place to go.
All right.
Okay, Mahmudul Hassan says, how to retain a confidence in speaking?
I'm facing this problem with confidence.
Sometimes I feel better, sometimes not.
Why is it happening frequently?
Ah, okay, so this is a psychology issue.
This is not really about language.
Okay, the truth is you can be a confident speaker even if your English is not great.
You can make mistakes, but still be confident, right?
Definitely possible.
So, you know, in my book, I have a whole section about the psychology.
I call it the engine of African English.
It's about training, practicing your emotions and your peak emotions.
It's the way you do things so that you can create this strong feeling of confidence every time you listen to English and every time you speak English.
So it's kind of a big topic.
But you know, the key point is this we can use our bodies, we can use our voice, we can use our movement and actions to create a feeling of energy and positive confidence, right?
So, if you know, if you're hunched over, looking down, this is this it looks like you're not confident and in fact, if you stay this way a long time, your energy and your confidence can actually drop your feeling.
Right, i've got a loud ambulance or something outside.
I'm in the city now.
Guys, i'm back in the city, so it's noisy, all right.
The opposite is also true shoulders back, head up.
I say this in every one of my lessons.
Those of you who have my power english course you know right, you're used to hearing me say this all the time.
But by using your body and your voice, and when you practice english, you do it with a nice loud strong, confident voice.
You do it with that same confident body position, even the way your face, you smile, you feel strong.
You train it, you practice it daily, every day, every day, every day, every day you're practicing english.
Every day you're listening when you're answering my mini story questions in my lessons it's always done in this way, with this strong, confident voice, body position and movement.
And then over time, after 30 days of doing that every day, it becomes more automatic, so that any situation where you hear or speak English, you kind of automatically get that confident feeling, that confident position, that confident voice.
So you have to train it.
It doesn't happen automatically.
You need to practice it every day.
Dayumson says grammar is for language nerds.
Yeah, exactly.
It is, right?
There are people who love grammar.
They like to analyze grammar.
I mean, they're people whose job it is.
They have PhDs in linguistics, right?
And they love analyzing the grammar and they can talk about it.
I mean, I've been lectured to about grammar.
I've had so many students over the years lecture me about grammar, okay?
Give me long explanations for why...
Something, you know, saying something was wrong.
Even though they were wrong.
Oh, my example from.
I was playing around with an AI app and I talked about this on my last show too.
And I was pretending to be in a restaurant and I was doing it in English because I was testing it.
And so the AI waiter says, would you like to drink?
And I said yeah, I'll have a water, and give me a minute to look at the menu totally natural normal, everyday response.
The AI immediately tells me oh no, you do not use uh with the word water, because you know water is an uncountable noun blah blah blah blah, but totally wrong.
Why is it wrong?
Because in speech we cut things, we use short phrases.
You know, if you are writing it, you would say in some formal situation you might write you know, give me a glass of water.
But in real speaking we'll just say give me a water, I'll have a water, please.
It's totally normal, it's totally correct.
And yet I'll have students say no no AJ, but.
And they start telling me all these rules.
And I'm like trying to explain to them that look, in natural speaking we don't follow all these technical rules all the time.
In fact, most of the time we ignore them.
But People get stuck.
They're kind of grammar nerds.
It's okay if you want to be a grammar nerd, but you need to do that separately from your actual speaking practice.
Abraham Ali says Arabic grammar is more complex.
So as a native speaker, I know barely any grammar, right?
Even in Arabic, which is more complex.
This proves that studying grammar doesn't help speaking.
I wonder who invented the idea of studying grammar.
Professors and universities and teachers and schools, because it gives them lots and lots and lots to do and to sound very intellectual and to sound very knowledgeable right.
And because a lot of these people had a background in linguistics, not in language teaching, right?
So someone like Noam Chomsky famously, okay, he's famous for analyzing the grammar and structure of different languages.
Not teaching people how to actually talk, right?
No, writing, you know, papers about the structure of it, right?
It's very academic.
Okay, Nigar Abasova says, you're an amazing teacher.
I bought your Power English course.
Check the description below for a link to that.
When I speak at home, I actually feel a lot of improvement, but I feel nervous when I speak with native speakers.
So back to the issue of nervousness, not feeling confident.
Get the book, get my free book and read that section about psychology and confidence, because there's a lot there, and you just focus on that for 30 days.
I think you'll notice a big improvement after 30 days of practicing it daily.
You've got to do it, though.
You've got to practice it.
It's not something just to know.
You actually have to do it.
All right, fernando diaz says here in the past they used to teach complicated and unreal english, like intellectual vocabulary or complex structures like the conditional perfect yeah, what is the condition?
I don't even know what that is.
I have to think about it.
To ask for something so easy, easily easy, like watching tv yeah exactly, they over complicated.
I sat in a university one time i i watched a english class at a university in thailand, so at that time i was getting my master's degree, so i was watching someone else, a professor, teach english a thai professor, in fact, teach to these university students and, oh my god, i was there going.
I was confused.
All right, Graduate student in teaching English, native speaker.
I was confused.
His explanations were so, so, so complicated.
So complicated about the most simple things.
And the students are all writing their notes down, pages and pages of notes.
Crazy.
I'm like, who's this for?
They're not going to learn to speak from this.
There's no way they can remember any of that.
And there's absolutely no way they can use it when they speak.
When you speak, someone asks you a question.
Where did you go yesterday?
You've got less than a second to answer if you want to sound natural.
Maybe five seconds maximum, or before you start sounding, or the conversation starts sounding really weird and probably is going to stop, right.
Someone says, where did you go yesterday?
And you go five seconds.
I went to okay, it sounds a little.
It's a little unnatural.
It's breaking the communication a bit.
It's probably about the maximum.
You start pausing longer than that and the person is not going to want to talk to you anymore.
Yeah, Abdul Aziz says I'm a teacher of English the most, the thing we teach most to students is grammar and they feel bored.
Well, that's the other additional thing.
These five rules i talked about today, and grammar in general is it's boring as hell for most people.
There are grammar nerds who like it, but i'd say 90 plus percent of people do not like it.
I don't like it.
It's boring boring boring, boring.
Because you're focused on real world goals, that you want to use english in the real world business meetings travel, friends And you don't.
Oh, this stuff is so boring and it doesn't help anyway.
Okay, Mickim says AJ, can you please tell us a little more about the interviews and Zoom calls you're planning to do?
Yeah, I'm going to do some Zoom calls with some of my students, just interviewing them about their success stories.
So I did that one.
I just showed recently the one from Hadi that Hadi sent.
And a lot of people like that.
And a lot of our Effortless English members said, oh, you should do more of those.
I have more I'm going to share in future shows.
But I thought, well, those are a little bit old.
So I just in our community, on our community website, I posted it and said hey, anybody who would like to talk to me about your effortless english success story, i can do a zoom call with you.
I'll record it and then i'll share it here on youtube.
So if you are a member, if you've got one of my courses, go get on the community site and tell me and i'll be happy to.
We'll figure out a time and i'll chat with you and interview you about your english success story and then i'll show it to on youtube.
I'll set those, as I'd like to translate your book into French.
Just message me.
You can message me in Instagram, Effortless English Club on Instagram.
Or look down in the description here on the YouTube video.
You'll see there's an email.
Message me.
Send me an email there and we can talk about it.
It'd be great if you translate my book into French.
Wonderful.
Okay, good.
Althaga says, I'm studying your English courses for speaking.
At the same time, I need to prepare for the IELTS exam.
And I'm focusing on learning grammar for writing.
Will that slow down my overall English improvement?
That's fine.
That's okay.
We do need good grammar in writing.
You know, as native speakers, just say me.
When did I start to learn grammar or study grammar rules?
And I learned this mostly at about the high school level, so let's say age 15.
In my English classes, I remember then we don't go, we certainly don't talk about verb tenses and all that stuff so much, but then we do talk about some written grammar at that age.
To be honest, even that I never even needed that and according to the research of Dr Krashen and the research he has studied, even that is not very helpful.
It can be helpful to, as I said, when you go back and check what you wrote, maybe adjust things a little bit.
But even then, you don't want to do it too much.
So I'd say it's okay, but just try to separate it and forget it when you're speaking.
Even for writing, I'd say forget it when you're first writing and try to do it quickly.
Don't over-focus on it, even for writing cheers from brazil, with lots of brazilians here.
I have a lot, a lot, a lot of brazilian students, so hello, hello to all of you.
Ahmed salman says my tie looks nice.
Thank you amina, good to see you.
Good morning, aj.
Nice to see you again.
It's now dawn in the United Arab Emirates.
Yeah, you're up early over there.
I bet dawn is a better time to learn English.
Yeah, you know, I used to be a night person.
I did everything at night.
Now I like to have the most focus and energy early morning.
I agree with you.
Okay, here's a good answer.
So the person who asked about IELTS from Ibrahim Ali was one of our top, top, top VIP members.
Abraham says, you don't need to study grammar to pass the test.
I'm speaking from experience.
I passed a test called TOEIC.
I didn't study any grammar.
You can even do some mock, some practice exams.
I agree with him.
How's your friend Chris Moses?
I've not heard about him since 2008.
Yeah, I've lost contact with him.
I haven't talked to him in Years and years and years.
I don't know.
Hopefully he's doing well.
Fernando Diaz says, as a beginner in other languages, so not only studying English.
He's very advanced now.
In fact, Fernando's one of the people I'm going to interview.
So learning German now, I believe, right?
As a beginner in other languages, I'm convinced grammar is counterproductive, meaning not helpful.
Do you think at some point higher levels could be necessary to understand better?
I don't think for speaking, no.
I think it's a writing thing.
I agree with, you know, Blaine Ray calls it pop-up grammar.
This is where you have a You're reading something.
You're listening to something.
You hear something that sounds weird.
You don't understand.
What is that?
It's some kind of grammar, some structure that sounds weird.
You're confused by it.
Fine.
Type it in.
Do a quick search.
AI or whatever.
Oh, it tells you what it is.
Okay, good.
Got it.
Maybe make a quick note and then keep going.
That's all.
Not pages and pages of grammar books and lessons and drills and activities.
No, no, no.
I think that pop-up grammar at more advanced levels is the best way.
You just see something that seems new.
You're not quite sure about it.
Sure, check it out.
Search about it.
That's it.
And then keep going.
Don't stay stuck on it.
Lots of Brazilians today.
Brazil.
Olé olé olé, olé uh.
Amina says like, for example, would have is a difficult one.
I would have gone to the store if i hadn't been hit on the head.
Okay, it's complicated, it is complicated, so you're gonna have to.
You know, trying to overanalyze, that you'll never be able to think do it in a in a conversation.
I would have gone to the store if i hadn't been hit on the head.
Right like uh, right.
So the only way you're going to be able to get that is by you could um generate, you could even ask an ai to generate.
You know 10 sample phrases or sentences using this structure.
Even like to call them rules.
I like to call them structures.
They're just patterns, really they're not rules.
Okay, there's not a rule book.
God didn't write a rule book and said this is the rules of english and you can never break them.
No, these are just common patterns, the patterns that most speakers agree on.
Okay, and they do change over time.
They can change and they change with the situation.
It depends right, in casual conversation we use certain language patterns and we might not use those in a more formal academic, written situation.
Okay, so these are just language patterns.
Okay, you won't go to hell if you break these or make a mistake, so relax.
Um, if you got one that's kind of sticking, like you feel like it's useful, it would be useful for your communication, but using it is tough.
You could do something like this and then you could practice, maybe every day, just saying out loud those sample sentences or phrases.
If you can get an audio and listen to them again and again and again, that will be great, and especially if you had a like a whole article or story that used them a lot, and then you could start to get that feeling.
You want the feeling for correctness.
This is what you're aiming for.
For any kind of grammar.
You're always trying to get the feeling for correctness, not not not thinking about a rule, a so-called rule.
When are you coming to south america, specifically argentina?
Eduardo donitsa asks i would love to go to south america.
I've never been to south america.
The farthest south i've been from the united states is uh, we think honduras, but then new mexico and honduras.
Oh, and did I go to Guatemala?
Yeah, I did go to Guatemala a little bit.
So Central America, I've never been south of that in the Americas.
I would love to go to South America, but just go to Costa Rica, too, and Panama and Nicaragua.
But and then you know, you know romantically, I'd love to do a huge tour of South America, and I'd absolutely brazil and argentina, and then maybe go up chile and you know peru ecuador colombia venezuela, let's see them all.
But uh, we'll see.
I have no plans right now.
Right now i'm in japan.
But we'll see, we'll see.
Would love to do it.
You know, ever since i saw that uh, the movie, the motorcycle diaries, i have had that kind of a little bit of a romantic, uh dream of traveling kind of like, you know, by I don't know car motorcycle whatever, around South America.
It would be yeah, it'll be great.
So we'll see hopefully hopefully, someday.
Okay, this is a very good question.
Nesavati says I am 40 years old now.
Do you think i'm still able to improve my English, even learning a new language?
Yes yes, if you're over 40, over 40, you can still learn languages.
I have a lot, a lot, a lot of members and students.
In fact, you know really my effortless English.
Members and students tend to be older.
Okay, most of them are not in their 20s.
Okay, they're.
They're definitely over 30.
I have a lot of members, a lot of students, who are over 40.
Many, many and many who have succeeded, who started at 40 years old, 50 years old.
Their English speaking was terrible, no fluency.
And then six months later, a year later, two years later high, high level fluency automatic, effortless English speaking.
So absolutely you can.
In fact, this is, I think, the best method for you.
Anyone who is, you know, over age 30, over age 40, the effortless english system, the effortless english method, is the best for you because all these problems of analyzing, studying and memorizing they get worse as you get older, so it's going to harm your speaking even more.
So, no worries yes, you're in the right place.
I have i tend to have a bit of an older audience.
Ahmed Salman said I listened to your Power English course.
What a great course.
Thank you.
Yeah, I like this comment.
So Pow Video says, language is a tool for communication.
Grammar is a tool for tests.
Perfect.
Hi, AJ.
Is it good to use AI to correct grammar rules?
I don't think so.
No.
I've been playing around with AI.
I've been talking to some people.
I think, is it Fernando or Abraham uses it?
I think Abraham uses AI.
I think it's got some uses, but I think you don't ask it to correct your grammar.
Because you're just doing...
You're just replacing a human grammar teacher or a grammar textbook with an AI grammar Nazi.
It's the same problem, okay?
As I gave that little example when the AI was correcting me as a native speaker using a phrase, the most common way to order water or a drink and it's correcting me.
Now, of course, I'm a native speaker, so I know it's wrong.
So no big deal.
But For you all, because you're not native speakers, you won't know when the AI is making a mistake.
You won't know when the AI is being too picky.
You won't know when the AI is trying to give you advice for the wrong situation.
So it's just going to start making you think and analyze more and more.
And it might even just give you wrong information.
I think the way to use AI for practicing is just chat with it.
Give it a situation.
I think generally you should prompt the AI to use a conversational, casual style of English.
If you don't tell the AI that it's probably going to be very, very formal and academic to not natural at all.
And then you could just say you know, pretend you're a waiter at a restaurant and I'm your customer, and then go.
Then just just practice, just just use it as speaking fluency practice.
So the ai says hi, i'm your waiter today.
Here's the menu, what would you like to drink?
And just give it an answer oh, i'll have a water and uh, two cokes.
And then the ai say okay well, do you know what you want to eat now, or do you need a few minutes to look at the menu?
And you can respond oh, give me a few minutes to look at the menu.
What's your special today?
Whatever okay, just practice chatting like that.
I think it's great for that.
Great.
There are a lot of AIs out there that focus on language.
I think you can just use chat GBT for this if you've got the audio ability.
So I think just use it as a chat partner, not as a corrector.
If you use it as a corrector, you're just training yourself to constantly stop and think about grammar while you're talking.
It's a bad habit.
You know what you want.
To break that habit right, just use it for chatting.
Mohawk productions.
Can I use your method to learn another language, for example Japanese?
Yes, the basic method works for any language.
Again, comment book on Instagram and I'll send you the link to download my entire book for free.
I'm giving it to all my fans out there.
If you're on YouTube and just look in the description down there, I'll have a link.
I'll put a pinned comment too that has a link where you can download my full book now.
Isn't this interesting?
Fernando Diaz says when my daughter speaks in English, She knows how to use irregular verbs correctly.
But one day she had to do some homework about irregular verbs.
To my surprise, she could not do the drills because she was thinking about the conjugations.
I had to start talking to her in English for her to remember again.
Isn't this perfect?
That's the perfect example how grammar rules destroy your fluency.
Right.
So when speaking, when he's just chatting with his daughter, she uses the irregular verbs.
She conjugates them correctly.
It all is just flowing out.
She's not thinking about any of that.
It's just flowing out naturally and automatically.
Effortless English.
But then when she has some school homework on the topic of irregular verbs and they ask her conjugate the word go,
And then she has to.
Right now.
It's like the completely different part of her brain analysis thing, linguistics and she couldn't do it.
She needed help until he just had her talk.
Well, how would you say i went to?
You know if you?
How would you say go to the store yesterday?
Oh, i went to the store right, that's it.
That's the conjugation went.
It's a regular verb.
Right, you don't.
It's perfect, perfect example.
Let's see how to study in your book.
Well, get my book.
I'm going to offer my audio book later.
So we need to set up access, but I'll give my audio book away too, I think.
I think the audio book's even better than the book because you can listen to it.
Having both is great because then you can just use my book.
You could use my free book and my free audio book.
Read along. and listen to it, you're getting English practice.
My book is written in a fairly conversational, natural way, not too academic.
So it's a great free resource.
So get the book now and maybe in a couple weeks I'll have the free audiobook available for you guys.
Is it too late to watch live?
Nope.
Still on in the air now.
Okay.
Oh, cool.
Abraham Ali says, today I used a bunch of AI tools to create stories in German, audio and text.
I was impressed.
I'm impressed.
AI is going to replace us all.
We're all doomed 10 years from now.
I'm not optimistic, honestly.
But for now, it's quite useful and very useful.
Brazil again, Mustafa says, I'm from Brazil.
I'm 69 years old.
I started with your Power English course maybe 10 years ago.
So he was 59.
I'm a VIP member for four or five years.
So yes, it's possible to improve our English even over 50.
Thank you for that comment, Mustafa.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
From Brazil Mustafa, over 50 years old started, started with power english, then became a vip member, has improved his english tremendously.
So there you go age age, age.
In fact, it's so good for you as you age language.
You know any kind of learning challenge.
We need to keep challenging our brains and our bodies as we get older.
It keeps us sharp and alive For the entire time of our lives.
Right?
So, yeah.
Don't get intimidated about, oh, I'm older.
I can't do it.
I have so, so, so.
Join in for the thing that you're going to see.
So many of my students, they're in their 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
And some 70s.
We probably have some.
I know we've had a few in their 80s even.
Okay.
Arunk says master oh, nice title.
Can you, can you list the future jobs or businesses to do in the era of ai?
Well, you know, there's the short term, which is the next five years, and there are a lot of possibilities.
Then there's sort of uh, the longer term, which let's say 10 years from now and after.
In the short term, there are a lot of things.
I think healthcare is a good one.
Being an entrepreneur, starting your own business, great.
High-level strategy, thinking, management, leadership, all those are fine.
The problem is after about 10 years from now, I think the AI, sales also good.
But I think after 10 years, AI is going to replace all of that too, mostly.
I think, 99 of jobs going to be replaced by AI and robotics and unfortunately, I'm not confident that the people controlling all this are good people that care about humanity.
So I'm quite pessimistic and worried and, since I have two young children, it actually scares me quite a lot.
Trying not to be too pessimistic and scary, but We'll see.
AI cannot steal our conscious or our souls, says Arun.
Yeah, well, that is true.
We always have that.
And that's important.
The most important thing.
But for now, he says, same person, we need to use it as a tool to support our work and creativity.
Yeah, for now, it's incredible.
I and jumping into AI the last couple of weeks.
And I'm getting so much more done.
You know, many of you noticing that I'm suddenly more active again.
Well, it's because the AI can help me.
I'm using all these AI tools now.
So stuff I would have to do all myself like uploading, like take a long video, cut it into shorts and then put them on.
I never would do that.
That's why I never did short videos before.
Now the AI can help me do that much faster edit.
The video editing is quicker.
You know this is a small example.
So yeah, absolutely right now.
It's a good thing, but we'll see.
How are your kids?
Are you still homeschooling?
We are still homeschooling and always will.
Okay, a couple more.
How long have i been going?
Where's the time?
We're just over an hour now, so i think we're almost done.
Yeah, you can.
So this is Was that Abraham or Fernando?
Fernando Diaz was saying that he uses AI to create stories for vocabulary he can't remember.
So instead of flashcards, which are boring, right?
Just flashcards.
Things like Anki.
A lot of the language learners that people like to learn a lot of languages.
They love those Anki cards.
It's called spaced repetition.
I always found it dreadfully boring.
But you could instead ask the ai to you know, use these 20 vocabulary words i'm trying to remember, put them into a story and make an audio for it, and then you could listen to that audio again and again, and again.
It's you're still reviewing the same vocab, but in a way that's, i think, far more interesting than just looking at flashcards Cool.
Moha Production says, thank you.
As a Ukrainian, I used your 2014 effortless English speaking program.
It gave me better results than school.
You're the goat of English learning.
I hope most of you guys know what goat means, right?
Not the animal.
That's a sheep.
What does the goat say?
Goat means greatest of all time g-o-a-t.
Thank you so much.
I'm happy for your success.
I really i love it.
I'm looking forward to doing some of our success story interviews so great.
So ukraine okay, this is a good question.
Ahmed salman says I have a question if you don't mind.
My hero.
Thank you.
Why is my understanding better than my speaking?
That's normal.
Don't worry about that.
That's what it should be.
Your listening and understanding should always be higher than your speaking.
I mean, it almost has to be.
The opposite would be almost impossible.
Can understand your speaking when I listen to you, when your courses, when I try to speak, I face some trouble.
Okay well, here's what I recommend.
There's kind of phases.
Again I always say, for six months listening listening, intense listening, deep listening, really just only listening.
After that most people are gonna be ready to start focusing on speaking again.
Try shadowing.
Start Now we've got AI.
Get on chat, GPT, any AI tool that has audio abilities.
And just tell you know you got to learn how to tell it, but just give it a situation and give it a character, who to be right?
So you say, you're an American, 30 years old, in a business office.
You use Use casual conversational English and chat with me about planning a presentation.
Go.
Right.
And then it'll start doing it like, you know, well, which of the topic be of our presentation be.
And then you just go and just role play.
Right.
You go back and forth, back and forth.
And you start doing this with.
The thing I like about the AI chat practices is there's no pressure at all.
Okay, because I've done, even with my friend.
Okay, back 11 years ago, when I was trying to learn Spanish for my Camino de Santiago trip, I did some online chats with my friend Oscar, who makes unlimited Spanish and Oscar's, you know, a good friend of mine.
I'm not worried.
Oscar's not going to laugh at me or do anything bad, but I still found there was a little bit of pressure.
Okay.
He would start talking to me in Spanish and asking me questions.
And I, it just, I was a little nervous, right?
There's just a little bit of pressure or something there talking to him.
And I was, you know, beginner level, maybe high beginner.
So you don't have that with AI, you know, it's a computer.
It's.
It's so i i played around with it, i i tried it in a language i know, almost none zero, like italian.
I was playing with the ai and i know like i can't remember how many probably know like five words of italian.
So i just started role playing.
A little simple thing no pressure none zero, because it's a computer.
Who cares?
It can wait as long as i.
There's no pressure to answer fast, i can just relax and it just waits.
And so I think that when you're ready to start the beginning of your speaking, practice a lot with the AIs.
It's great.
You could do that for six more months.
So that's month 12.
And then after that, then chat partners.
Then you could get on our community, join some of the chat groups with other members and start.
You could talk on Zoom every month, whatever you want to do, or every week if you want to.
Or you can even pay people to be conversation partners.
So I think that AI is a nice way to do it where there's no pressure.
You can do it anytime you want.
There's no schedule or anything.
You don't have to worry about that.
You can do it every single day.
You can give it any situation you want.
It's a good way to play around.
And then along with that, shadowing.
Shadowing helps the fluency because it forces you to go fast.
So the combo of doing some shadowing for that quick fluency, getting those words out faster, just moving your mouth fast enough.
And also AI for having to think and respond to questions and not knowing what's coming next.
It's a good combo.
Fernando Diaz says.
A friend from Poland says you've changed because now you're talking about AI a lot.
I've just done a few topics.
It's only been this week.
I don't know how much have i changed in one week.
What?
10 days ago i started jumping in and when i jump into something i usually jump in big.
I get interested in something and i want to learn about it.
I don't want to go slowly.
So right now i am quite interested in all this ai stuff because it's changing our entire world and need to know about it.
So I don't think AI is the only way I think AI has a lot of limitations.
I think as I said, I think long term, it's very, very, very frightening.
And I'm pretty negative about the future with it.
But right now I think it's kind of in a magic spot the next five years, where it's actually can do some really great things.
Moha Production says.
As for AI, do you think it will be possible in the future for people to download the skill of any language by a chip installed in their brain?
God, don't do that.
Then you're giving people the ability to download malware and all kinds of evil stuff into your brain directly.
Never do it.
Oh, God, I hope not.
I hope there are people who would never let that happen.
It's not necessary.
Anyway, just let me tell you what happened to me three days ago.
I'm out on the playground, this little kid, little japanese kid, comes up.
I'm with my two children and he's really.
He's a really sweet kid, he's really curious, he wants to talk to me and uh, you know, we start talking a little in japanese and, not struggling to communicate, he just whips out his phone.
This kid's, like nine years old, opens up google translate so start saying oh, where are you from and why are you here?
And then he you know it says it in english.
And then i say back in english oh, i'm from america, we're visiting japan now, visiting.
Some family plays it to him.
So you won't need a chip in your brain, you'll just have something like that.
You know, right now you can do it with your phone and they'll just make.
You know, they can just make a device.
If you're really translating, you can just pin it, maybe something really small, right there on your, put it on your shirt or your collar, and it would just automatically translate back and forth, right?
There would be no need to install a chip on it.
Okay, last question.
Everyone's asking about AI now.
Hazem Aliar, do you think artificial intelligence will take people's jobs?
Absolutely.
It's already taking people's jobs.
It's going to replace millions.
You know I talked about in a recent show the McKinsey report predicted up to a one billion, but with a B jobs lost to AI.
There are groups have predicted at different numbers, but they're all in the hundreds of millions.
That's just in the next 10 years.
After that yeah, i think it's going to replace most jobs.
So what happens to all of us after that?
Hmm, that's the frightening part, Ibrahim Ali says.
I think I see some people online say language learning is obsolete.
You don't need to do it because of AI and instant translation apps.
Yeah, well, I don't think so.
I think it's a certainly for the next 10 years.
It's actually going to give you an advantage, because a lot of people will have this mindset.
And because they'll be, you know, they want to be lazy about it.
Let's face it.
It takes a lot of work.
So this is an area you can stand out and be different. for really for basic lower level tasks of yes you can just use your Google Translate thing but for higher level jobs where you really need fluency right you got to communicate with international teams at your job right you got an international team you got to get on zoom calls and chat in real time you've got to make human connections maybe face-to-face conversations right it's that human connection where you're making deals you're doing projects together you're negotiating well talking to a little phone or translation thing where you're getting this ai thing it's it kills the human connection so the people who have real fluency will be able to get those higher level higher paying jobs and more secure jobs more safe jobs and let's face it if someone if if the AI translation app can replace them they can probably replace the rest of their job too and they're just those people are just going to be eliminated completely so a lot of these higher level skills you've got to come that's again the reason you got to focus on communication and not just English but these other communication skills with English sales negotiation connection emotional intelligence you know building that human connection and rapport making deals management leadership when you combine those things with english that at least you know as far ahead as i can see which is let's say 10 years is the most after that i don't know what happens but in the next 10 years i think real fluency gives you a big big jump because these lower level jobs are going to be replaced in the next over the next 10 years they're just going to be eliminated completely don't need a human using the app they'll just have the ai doing all of it so that's my opinion right and there's something ai will never replace the real human connection yeah and in fact as i said in the next 10 years i think because ai same's gonna social media it's the same it's going to be flooded with ai content right it's already get on something like twitter x half the comments are just and posts are just bots right powered by ai youtube now is getting more and more and more content that is pure ai there's no human at all right and that's going to increase more and more and more so as the internet gets flooded with ai as jobs get replaced by ai where where everywhere around us are all these you know robotics and AI people are going to value reality real humans real connection real emotion face to face real more and more and more it will give you the better you are at those things will give you an advantage in that AI age the people who are stiff who are not good at communication who don't know how to connect with other people they're in trouble.
They can just be replaced.
Let's just take the simplest example would be like a low-level job working at McDonald's, right?
Just working at McDonald's, right?
You used to have a person there at the counter.
You walk up.
They say, can I help you?
Yeah, I'd like a hamburger and french fries and a Coke.
Oh, what size Coke would you like?
Do you want to supersize that?
Make it big?
Yeah, okay.
All right, that'll be, you know, $5.
The problem is that McDonald's, and I'm talking about the United States.
Japan is different.
Some places are different.
But in the United States McDonald's had a harder and harder time and restaurants in general hiring people with basic social skills.
People who would just look at the person, smile, be pleasant.
Instead, more and more and more, they're hiring these workers.
And they'd come up and they'd have this little bored look on their face.
This happens to me all the time at Starbucks still in the United States.
I hate Starbucks now because their customer service is garbage.
Their workers are lazy and rude in America and Japan is very different, but in America, so they just have this attitude.
They ignore you for a while.
Well, in that case, they replace them.
Replace them.
Right now they're replacing them with touch screens and in a little while longer with, probably like a robot, with you know ai voice activated, because right now it's a little, you got having people type in their thing on the giant touch screen at mcdonald's.
It's okay, that's what i do, it it's fine but um, they'll make it easier, it'll be easier and easier and eventually you'll just walk up and just speak it.
Okay, i'd like three hamburgers, you know, two cokes and uh, a large french fry, and then the little you know the voice ai, will just say okay well, what size fries would you like and Do you want to add this?
And that's $4.
Whatever, that's $10.
Right?
So more and more and more of those kind of jobs will be replaced.
From the business standpoint, the motivation for the businesses is well, I can replace these difficult, rude workers with this thing that the customers like better.
And it's cheaper long term over many years, so.
And then you know, eventually they might do robots that actually have kind of, you know, human-like faces.
And so you go back to, you got a cashier again, but now it's like, it's got a face, right?
Or it might just be a screen, but there'll be like an AI avatar talking.
You know that'll look more and more human until it looks perfectly human.
Something like that, I guess.
All right, I think that is enough for today.
We're over an hour, almost an hour and 20 minutes today.
Nice.
Okay, let's recap.
So I told you the five rules.
Stop studying those grammar rules and really stop studying grammar completely.
Today I just wanted to go over five of the most common ones that I've seen with students over the many years.
I've been doing this since, well, since 1996 was my first teaching job, teaching English.
So quite a while, 30 years or more.
And people focus a lot on those five, but in general, you just want to relax about the grammar.
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