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

Where A.J.'s more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

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

Hi, I'm AJ Hoag, the author of Effortless English, Learn to Speak English Like a Native.

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I was standing with my knees bent in a deep stance, called a horse stance.

My legs were shaking.

Pain shot up through my thigh muscles, the top of my legs, up into my hips and into my lower back.

I was pouring sweat. Sweat was beating up on my forehead and running down my neck.

karate uniform was already wet in the back and the chest from the sweat coming off of my body.

I looked down at my legs, looking at them shake.

Vibrating, it was strange. It was like they were completely

uncontrolled. I couldn't stop the shaking. It's like they had their own brain, their own mind.

And my legs were quite thin actually,

because at that time I was only 13 years old.

And I grit my teeth,

you know, clenched my jaw,

tightened my teeth and my jaw and just told myself mentally, silently, to keep going,

keep going, don't stand up.

In front of the class, the instructor walked back and forth, looking at us. They were probably 15 students with me all around my age, 14 years old all of us had our knees bent we look like we were

riding a horse in fact it was called a horse stance. So when you squat down, you bend your knees, actually more than 45 degrees, almost 90 degrees, like you're squatting down.

Looks like you're riding a horse, except there's no horse, there's nothing supporting you,

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