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Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

Top 5 Learning Mistakes English Learners Make

Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge

AJ Hoge

Language Learning, Education

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2008

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Top 5 mistakes English learners make.

0:05.0

What are the most common mistakes that English learners make?

0:08.0

Which mistakes do most English learners need to correct

0:12.0

in order to learn English much faster.

0:16.7

Here are the top five English learning mistakes.

0:20.9

One focusing on grammar. Thisocusing on grammar.

0:24.0

This is the biggest, most common, and worst mistake.

0:28.0

Research shows that grammar study, in fact, actually hurts English speaking ability.

0:36.4

Why?

0:38.0

Because English grammar is simply too complex to memorize and use logically.

0:44.0

And real conversation is much too fast.

0:48.0

You don't have enough time to think.

0:51.0

Remember hundreds or thousands of grammar rules, choose the correct one, then

0:57.4

use it.

0:59.5

Your logical left brain cannot do it. You must learn grammar intuitively and

1:05.0

unconsciously like a child. You do this by hearing a lot of correct

1:10.3

English grammar and your brain gradually and automatically learns to use English grammar correctly.

1:20.0

Two, forcing speech.

1:24.0

Both English students and teachers try to force speech before the learner is ready.

1:32.0

The result is that most students speak English very

1:36.2

slowly with no confidence and no fluency.

1:45.0

Forcing speech is a huge mistake.

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