Thank you. Oh, Oh, Welcome to the Effortless English Show.

Hi, I'm A.J. Hoag, and this is the show where we teach you to speak English

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What is the number one secret for success with English?

Well, my guest today is Steve Kaufman.

Steve speaks over 13 languages. He is the founder of link.com and I think we can say he's an expert

on language learning. So he's going to talk today about his secrets for learning languages.

So let's go ahead and go straight to Steve.

And Steve, what is your number one secret for learning English or any other languages for our audience?

Well you know I could talk about all of the little things that I do, the techniques that I've learned that help me learn languages, but I think the biggest thing is that I like learning languages.

I like learning them. I like the language. It doesn't matter what the language is. At first I may not know that much about it and the more I get into it, the more I study the language, the more I like it.

So I think that it's that ability to enjoy learning the language,

like the learning process, like the language,

and with that the confidence that you will end up

despite all the problems all the forgetting all the difficulties you will end up being able to communicate better and better in

the language. So that I think that's the attitude that I have which I think is it's not

unique but people who haven't done a lot of language learning

who are still struggling with their first language they don't have the perspective that I have because I've learned so many languages.

And you know that's not something you learn in school.

I mean when you're learning languages in school, which is where most people start,

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