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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Sacrifice, Risk, and Success

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A.J. Hoge, host of The Effortless English Show, discussed the necessity of sacrifice and risk in order to achieve success with English or anything else in life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Effortless English Show with the world's number one English teacher, A.J. Hogue.

0:06.0

Where A.J.'s more than 40 million students worldwide finally learn English once and for all

0:11.0

without the boring textbooks, classrooms, and grammar drills.

0:15.0

Here's A.J. with a quick piece to help you learn to speak fluent English effortlessly.

0:20.0

Hi, I'm A.J. Hoag. Welcome to the Effortless English Show, the show that teaches you to speak

0:26.3

English confidently. Go to Effortless English Club.com and join my free email course.

0:34.0

Many years ago, I think almost 10 years ago actually,

0:42.0

I was sleeping in my car.

0:49.0

Not only was I sleeping in my car, I was actually living in my car a small car I was laying on a board a piece of

0:58.5

wood that went from the front of the car to the back of the car.

1:04.8

I put the passenger seat down, and that was my bed.

1:08.1

So I was laying on a piece of wood.

1:10.2

I remember one night, it was a hot summer night in Georgia, the state in the United States.

1:17.0

So hot, very humid. I was laying on top of this board.

1:28.0

And my nose was only just a couple inches from the roof of the car, because it was such a small car.

1:31.0

So just a few centimeters, a few inches from the top.

1:35.0

I remember laying there in the heat, sweating.

1:39.0

And I was, as I was laying there sweating pouring sweat

1:46.0

I could hear my dog because my dog was living in my car with me.

1:50.5

My dog was in the backseat of the car and she was panting.

1:56.0

She was hot too.

2:00.0

We were parked in downtown Athens, Georgia, kind of a small college town in the state of Georgia in the United States.

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