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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Learn English as a Celebration

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2009

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Learn English as a celebration.

0:03.0

As students learn English, too often they become obsessed with the future.

0:09.0

They think, someday I will speak English fluently and then I'll be happy. But in the present they are

0:18.6

miserable. They're miserable in their boring English class, sitting in a small chair, scribbling in a notebook,

0:26.2

memorizing wordless, analyzing extremely boring grammar rules.

0:32.0

They're also stressed because they know their English speaking is not

0:36.2

improving quickly. This is not the way to learn English. Indeed, it's not the way to learn anything. Of course, most students are

0:45.8

merely following the learning system they know best. A learning system created by boring,

0:52.0

tired, stiff, and ineffective teachers and bureaucrats.

0:57.0

This is the only system most students know that grew up learning in this way from elementary

1:02.3

school through graduate school.

1:05.0

However, you must never confuse education with learning.

1:11.0

True learning is a celebration. True learning is a celebration.

1:14.0

True learning is active, fun, energetic, and exhilarating.

1:18.0

Human beings are naturally designed to learn.

1:21.0

When we are truly learning learning not just being educated we

1:25.4

automatically feel great how can you learn English in this way how can you discover

1:31.8

the excitement and happiness of learning right now?

1:37.0

Mostly you must unlearn your ideas about education. Teachers taught you to sit still, be quiet and obey. You must do the

1:49.0

opposite. Move your body as you learn. be loud and break all the rules.

1:55.0

And my seminar, students were shocked, in a good way, by my teaching methods.

2:01.0

Immediately I had them standing and dancing to music. They looked at me

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