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Welcome to the next effortless English audio and Text newsletter.

Hi, I'm A.J. Hoag, the director of Effortless English.

I hope you're doing well today.

Now, in the last issue of the newsletter I discussed the metaphor of sports, of thinking of English like a sport.

So instead of trying to memorize a lot of rules

and instead of studying as you would an academic subject for something like math

instead to think of English, especially English speaking and listening, as a sport so that you're practicing and

training for it. Remember that? That metaphor? Well I want to talk about that metaphor even

more today. So I really want to change the way you think about learning English and most importantly

performing English getting great results. So let's continue with our football or soccer metaphor.

Now in most of the world, this sport is called football,

but in the United States we call it soccer because Americans like to be different, I guess.

And also football is a completely different sport in the United States.

Anyway, I'll call it football and I'll call it soccer in today's issue.

So let's think about this.

In schools, in the traditional way of learning in schools we have teachers and we have

students right so what did teachers do in a school traditionally?

Normally.

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