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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Babies Know Best

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2013

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

http://effortlessenglishclub.com/babies-know-english-best  Babies know how to learn English.  They do it perfectly!  We can learn a lot about speaking Engish perfectly from babies.  In this audio I discuss how babies learn English and how you can copy some of their best methods.

Transcript

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0:00.0

To get the text for today's Effortless English newsletter, go to Effortless English

0:10.0

English Club.com. That's Effortless English Club. Click on the blog link

0:21.0

in the menu at Effortless English club.com.

0:25.0

Hi, this is AJ again, the director of Effortless English.

0:32.0

I hope you're doing well today. I am once again talking to you from my back porch on the island of Maui in Hawaii. Today's newsletter is titled Babies No Best. And indeed the babies do know best. See the babies know how to learn English or any language.

0:59.0

Much better than we do as adults. Why? Because they learn language naturally, intuitively, and

1:09.5

unconsciously. See there's a huge problem out there. There are a lot a lot a lot of

1:17.2

lot of confused English students lot of English learners.

1:26.1

Perhaps you are one.

1:29.2

And these students know a lot of English.

1:34.2

They know a lot of grammar rules.

1:38.8

The problem is they can't understand instantly and effortlessly.

1:47.0

They can't speak clearly, confidently, and effortlessly.

1:52.0

They know about... and effortlessly.

1:53.4

They know about English linguistics, the academic study of linguistics, nouns and verbs and

2:02.2

verbs and pronouns and phrases and clauses and different verb tenses and all of that stuff

2:09.2

but they can't perform.

2:11.5

Can't understand instantly and effortlessly. Can't speak clearly, confidently, and

2:16.6

effortlessly. That's a huge problem. All these adult students out there who just can't actually speak English well and understand

2:28.0

it well, even though they know a lot.

2:33.4

See, most schools, most programs and indeed most students in those schools

2:42.3

are focused on academic English.

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