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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

The Keys To English Mastery

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2007

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'll take it

0:10.0

Hello,

0:10.0

Hello, Hello and we're making it for them. Hello and welcome to the Effortless English podcast.

0:13.0

Right now the Effortless English Club is open.

0:17.0

Open for membership.

0:19.0

For more information go to W.

0:21.0

W. Effortless English. . . . go to www

0:24.7

W. W. Effortless English.

0:27.2

Let's get started. Today's podcast starts with an article from Dr. Stephen Krashen. the name of his article is,

0:34.0

What does it take to acquire language?

0:38.0

Okay, in this article, you're going to hear a few difficult vocabulary words, maybe you might not know.

0:45.0

One is comprehensible. Comprehensible.

0:48.0

Comprehensible means understandable,

0:52.0

able to be understood. You can understand it. That's comprehensible.

1:00.0

And input, of course, means something coming in.

1:03.9

In this case, input means listening in this article.

1:08.2

It can also mean reading in language.

1:10.6

Something that comes into your brain, listening and reading.

1:14.0

So comprehensible input means listening to language you understand,

1:20.0

understandable language you hear.

1:22.0

You'll also hear the word acquisition in this article.

1:26.0

Acquisition means to get something and keep it. To get and keep. With language, if we talk about language acquisition, we mean that

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