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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Attitude of Gratitude

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

When we practice the attitude of gratitude, we can appreciate how far we have come in life. Do you feel frustrated when trying to speak English? Do you compare yourself to others? Practicing the attitude of gratitude can bring you back to a place of appreciation. Appreciation that you are able to read English, speak English and are making great progress in speaking English fluently. In this Effortless English Show, AJ teaches you how   an attitude of gratitude can allow you to relax and have fun while speaking English. For a free transcript of this audio, please visit the Effortless English Club Blog

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, A.J. Hogue, where

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A.J. is more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without

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the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

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Here's A.J. with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

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Hi, I'm A.J. Hoge, the author of Effortless English. Learn to speak English like a native.

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And welcome to season two of the Effortless English show.

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For a free text... of the Effortless English show.

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For a free text transcript of this show, go to the Effortless English blog

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at Effortless English Club.com. That's Effortless English Club.com.

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Now I know you sometimes feel stressed about your English. You feel frustrated you feel

1:01.7

like you want to be better, you want your fluency to be better, you want your pronunciation to be better, you want your spoken grammar to be better.

1:10.0

You want your spoken grammar to be better.

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And you get frustrated because you feel like you're not improving fast enough.

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You notice all of your mistakes. You notice when you can't understand a

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television show or movies or a YouTube video and you get frustrated by that too.

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And because in general you have very high standards,

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you have high goals.

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You want to get a high score on the toeful perhaps. Or most of all you

1:47.0

want to speak like a native speaker. You want to sound like me. Now a few years ago I was living on the island of Maui in Hawaii and I decided I wanted to learn to kite surf. So kite surfing is

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where we have like a big parachute tied to your connected to your body your waist and then on your

2:17.8

feet you have a board looks like a snowboard kind of a type of surfboard, and the kite, the parachute, pulls you through the water

2:27.7

and you ride on top of the board.

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