This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 120, Effortless English podcast host A.J. Hoag gets emotional with All-Eers English.

Welcome to the All-Eears English Podcast where you'll finally get real native English

conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning

English. Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl,

coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA.

In today's episode, get three tips from language learning expert A.J. Hoag,

so you know how to feel positive emotions while studying English and make learning

not just fun, but also effective. Hey Michelle, I'm so excited to be here for a guest episode with A.J.

Hogue, are you ready?

I am ready. Oh my gosh, This is awesome. A.J. is the founder of Effortless English and host of the Effortless English podcast. So it's so exciting to have him as this expert here today.

I know guys in this episode. We're going to be playing clips from our interview with A.J. Hogue and so you're going to get real insight directly from him from his voice. first of all let's talk about the

name of his company Michelle what does effortless mean?

Mmm effortless it means kind of like light and not having to think too hard, right? Like having to have something be a burden, I think.

Yeah, totally, exactly.

This idea, yeah, you don't really have to try that hard

and you just learn automatically.

You obviously still do have to put in some effort.

But it's kind of like the type of effort that you put in is really what matters, right?

Right, right, right. It doesn't mean that you don't put in effort.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

You just say, eh, whatever, right? It's just a different type of effort. So, yeah, guys, A.J is going to share his three tips for how to learn English in an effortless way, which is going to be super helpful so should we go into his first

tip yeah let's just get right into it guys so now we're gonna play AJ's first

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