Hi it's A.J. and welcome to Rule Number Six. Rule number six is simple, but very, very important and very effective.

In fact, you'll have noticed that all of these rules are simple, but they're very powerful.

In fact, individually they're very powerful.

Just using one of these rules can improve your English speaking a lot.

But the real power comes when you use all seven of them to totally change the way you learn English.

So what's number six? Number six is this.

Only use authentic real English materials.

What does that mean?

Well, put another way, don't use textbooks. I talked about this already when I was talking

about throwing away your grammar books. But really you need to throw away all of your textbooks,

all of them. Get rid of them. They're horrible, they're boring, you know they're boring. They're useless. You know, get rid of all the grammar textbooks, all those with the little fake, you know, conversations

in them and all the nice little graphics and pictures they put in to try to make them seem

interesting when in fact it's really boring.

Because what are those textbooks really have?

They got a bunch of fake conversations

with boring actors reading them. And then they have a bunch of little boring activities and drills that are supposed to help you improve your communication.

It's all bad. It's not going to help you. What you need to do instead is use only authentic real English

materials. What does that mean? Well when I say real, here's what I mean. I mean the best materials are the ones that are

four native speakers. In other words books and audios and videos that are made for Canadians, Americans, British people, Australians.

They're not made for foreigners learning English, they're made for the people actually living in those countries.

That's a real authentic material book, CD, video, whatever.

You can also use materials that are very, very, very similar or very, very close to real materials.

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