Natives Break Rules

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Your obsession with grammar is hurting your career. Native speakers break grammar rules all the time! Speaking confidence is what is important, not grammar perfection.

In fact, you must break these "rules" if you want to sound confident and natural every time you speak English.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The grammar trap that costs you your promotion.
0:13.1	You're in a meeting.
0:15.3	The boss asked, you know, what do you think we should do?
0:19.5	And you say, yeah, I'm thinking, I think, and for a moment, it's short, but for a moment,
0:28.8	you're thinking, should it be thinking or think?
0:32.9	Right?
0:33.5	I am thinking we should.
0:35.9	I think we should.
0:38.1	And that hesitation,
0:40.9	which happens again and again and again and again and again and again in your speech,
0:47.3	it makes you look uncertain, not confident.
0:53.5	Even though you have the right ideas. Because you start looking down,
0:58.7	looking up, your speech starts getting choppy. We say choppy means lots of breaks, too many breaks.
1:08.2	Meanwhile, your American co-worker or colleague says, yeah, like I think we got to reduce that
1:15.9	churn rate and we better focus on retention and subscriptions.
1:23.7	Now, in his speech, he makes grammar mistakes.
1:27.7	He's got filler words. We're going to talk about all these grammar mistakes. He's got filler words.
1:29.1	We're going to talk about all these grammar mistakes native speakers make.
1:32.3	But his speaking is fluent and most importantly, confident.
1:39.4	And this happens again and again and again and again in meetings.
1:43.0	Guess what?
1:44.0	He gets the promotion and you don't.
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