Welcome to the Effortless English Podcast. This is AJ Hoag. I'm in San Francisco, California.

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Today I'm going to talk about learning English and how to use this podcast or other

podcasts to learn English well, especially how to use podcasts to learn to speak English fluently, easily, quickly. And that's our goal. That's my goal at Effortless English, to help you speak

English easily. Now in school you probably learn to read English and I know you learn to

analyze English. What does analyze mean?

Well, analyze means to break it into parts.

That's the direct meaning of analyze.

So you take something whole, the English language, and then you break it into little small pieces

and you examine each little piece and you try to make rules about each piece and how does this piece go together with another piece?

That's analysis is the noun or to analyze is the verb.

And that's what most of you learned in your school. You learn to analyze English.

Unfortunately, you did not learn to speak English and you did not learn to understand English well.

And that's a problem because most people who are learning English

independently, okay, you want to learn it yourself,

you have some reason, you really want to use it.

Well most people like that, most people like you, you want to speak it, right?

You really want to communicate. You don't just want to pass some test. You really want to talk to people using English. You want to communicate using English. You want to listen to an English movie, a movie in English, and understand it. You want to make friends and talk to them using English. Maybe you need it on your job, you need to

communicate with coworkers or customers. But for whatever reason most of you really want to learn English to be able to use it, not just analyze it.

And that's a big difference. It's very different.

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