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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Change The World

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2010

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Hi, this is AJ. Today I'm going to talk to you about our mission because you and I are

0:09.3

going to change the world. I'm very excited about this. There is a problem in the world. I have

0:18.2

traveled to many countries around the world and everywhere I find the same problem.

0:26.4

The problem is this.

0:28.8

Students are bored.

0:31.0

Students are unhappy. Students are stressed. Students are frustrated. Schools are doing this to them.

0:41.0

Everywhere I go is the same. In language schools and public

0:48.8

schools and private schools it's the same everywhere.

0:55.0

Everywhere.

0:57.0

The schools are using the same old, boring methods to teach students.

1:05.0

Everywhere it's the same.

1:07.0

The students sit in little desks, in rows, not moving, not smiling, no energy, and they sit and they listen to some teacher give a talk from a textbook, talking from a book, teaching from a

1:29.7

textbook. And the students write a lot of notes and then they need to memorize from these

1:37.0

notes from the textbook and then later the schools give them tests.

1:43.4

Lots and lots of tests.

1:46.2

There are tests in the schools.

1:48.0

There are tests from the government.

1:49.9

They're international tests, such as the Tofel tests.

1:53.3

Tests, Tests, Tests, Tests.

1:57.0

And here's the really terrible part

1:59.8

that after doing this for years and years and years in these schools, the students still cannot speak English

2:11.0

confidently. They still feel nervous and shy when they try to speak English.

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