I'm AJ Hogue, the author of Effortless English,

learned to speak English like a native.

That means speak effortlessly, you know,

effortlessly. Where is the word effortless English come from?

It means that speaking English feels effortless.

The words come out. You're just communicating. You're just focusing on the ideas. You're focusing on communication.

You're not thinking about grammar rules. You're not thinking about vocabulary.

It's all very effortless, relaxed, and natural. Fluent, which is true fluency.

True fluency. That's what effortless English gives you. And you're doing a good thing by listening to this podcast.

Because this natural English input listening to English like this again and again and again.

As much as you can every day is the foundation.

Okay, this is what you missed in school, most likely.

Because in school, you may have listened to the teacher,

talk about English a lot.

Describing the grammar, describing the sentence structures, describing patterns,

but you probably didn't listen to a lot of just natural English,

talking, chatting, conversations, audiobooks, you know, videos, etc.

But that's what you need.

That is the foundation.

There are some other things that can also be helpful.

I mean, that's why I have my mini-story lessons, my point-of-view story lessons, which teach

you grammar, but grammar in a natural way, an intuitive way.

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