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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Learn English Naturally

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2009

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Learn English naturally.

0:03.0

Most of us know intuitively that the best way is to learn English naturally.

0:12.0

Yet, so many students still choose to use

0:16.6

unnatural, ineffective old methods of learning and they continue to be frustrated.

0:25.0

Why is it so scary for some students to switch to natural effortless methods? The answer of course is our education system.

0:39.0

All over the world we have an industrial factory style of education.

0:45.0

Students sit passively memorizing information through boring rote.

0:51.0

They listen passively to lectures and take notes.

0:57.0

Anyone who understands the brain and how we learn knows that this factory education system is extremely ineffective.

1:07.0

Learning in school is totally unnatural.

1:12.0

So why are we taught this way?

1:17.0

Because the central role of school is not to feed our minds, but to teach us to follow the rules and train us to

1:29.1

be obedient employees. That's the sad truth. In fact in some countries some

1:36.8

education officials in the government openly admit that they don't care if students develop English fluency.

1:47.0

In Japan, for example, many officials say that the purpose of English class is not to learn English, but instead to train

1:58.7

students to be more disciplined. In other words, these officials believe that students become

2:06.2

stronger by forcing themselves to memorize useless and boring information.

2:13.0

It's no surprise that few Japanese students

2:17.0

become fluent English speakers,

2:20.0

unless they learn English outside of the school system.

2:25.0

Of course, Japan is not the only country with such a system.

2:30.0

Very few school systems teach English naturally.

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