Hi, I'm A.J. Hope, the director of Effortless English. And welcome to the free seven rules email course.

Today is rule one.

Now rule one is learn English phrases, not individual words.

This one, just like all the other rules, is very simple, very easy.

And like the other rules, this rule is very, very powerful. So simple, so powerful. What is the rule?

The rule is, always learn phrases, not individual words. So simple. So a phrase is a group of words. It's not, you can

have a whole sentence, but it's just it's even a part of a sentence.

So for example, let's say you have the word hate, H-A-T-E-H-E-H-E-H-H-E-H-T-E-H-T-E, and you want to learn this new word. You can just write down the word

hate and then you find in your dictionary the meaning and then you memor memorized it.

Hate, hate, hate, hate.

That's the old way, that's the kind of textbook way, the school way.

In school you probably remembered a lot of individual words.

You have those big vocabulary lists,

and you're trying to memorize all of them,

trying to remember all these individual single words.

It's not a good way to learn. Much better if you learn a phrase, a group of words.

And where do you find these phrases? You find these phrases in the real English

podcast that you're listening to, in the real English storybooks that you're reading so you don't memorize a list in a book.

No, no, no.

You listen to real English and when you hear a new word you write it down

Or when you're reading a story book and you see a new word you write it down

But do not just write down that word. You want to write down the whole

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