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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Rule 5 for Effortless English Speaking

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2011

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0

Ready? for Rule 5. Now Rule 5 is one of my favorites. You'll remember way back in

0:18.1

rule number 2 that I told you do not study grammar rules. I told you do not study grammar rules

0:24.2

I told you to get rid of your grammar textbooks and some of you are feeling stressed because all your life

0:31.0

You were told that grammar grammar grammar is the key to English.

0:35.2

Now if it was the key to English you probably would be speaking a lot better now

0:41.0

because I know you've already studied a lot of grammar rules.

0:45.8

Now on the other hand grammar itself is important.

0:49.0

Of course we need grammar.

0:50.2

Of course we need to use grammar correctly when we speak.

0:54.0

But you don't learn it from studying grammar rules

0:57.0

or memorizing a bunch of rules in a textbook.

1:01.0

Instead, rule number five is this, use point of view stories.

1:07.0

Use point of view stories.

1:10.0

That's rule number five.

1:12.0

Now a point of view story, it's a method, it's a technique for learning English grammar.

1:20.0

And specifically for learning spoken English grammar because of course we're talking about speaking

1:26.2

here not writing.

1:28.7

So use point-to-view stories to learn English grammar. Don't use textbooks, don't study grammar rules. Instead,

1:38.4

use point-to-view stories. Now, what is a point-of-view story? I know you're asking, what is the point of view story? I know you're asking what is the point of

1:44.9

story. Most people don't know about this. So here's a very simple

1:49.2

explanation. A point of view story view stories actually, it's a series of stories.

1:57.0

Point of view stories. It's a series of stories.

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