Listen and answer. Today Kristen Tamaue and I went to a TPR storytelling, TPRS

workshop. TPRS is the central technique of Effortless English.

It is the technique we use in all of our listen and answer stories and

Point of View stories.

The workshop was taught by Blaine Ray. Point of from him. It was great to be reminded again of the most important principles of

language learning. What are those principles? In my free seven-day email course I

discuss the seven secrets to speaking English easily and fast.

But what are the principles, the most basic rules that are behind these secrets.

What are the most basic principles of effortless English?

Well, there are three. Number one, understanding or comprehension. To be powerful,

a lesson must be understandable. This seems obvious, right? If you don't

understand the lesson, you won't learn anything. Yet, textbooks and schools are filled with lessons that are hard to understand.

Sometimes I even have trouble understanding the grammar explanations in textbooks. I'm a native speaker with

two master's degrees, including one in teaching English, yet these books confuse me. Imagine how a normal English student feels.

At Effortless English, when we say a lesson is understandable we mean that you understand

99% of it not 50% not 80% 99% after listening to our vocabulary lesson, our listen and answer lessons, our

point of view lesson, and reading the text you understand all of the main article or story.

And when you understand you learn.

You learn deeply and you never forget.

Basic principle number two, repetitive.

To be powerful, a lesson must be repetitive.

This means you hear the vocabulary and grammar many, many, many times.

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