AJ Hoge _ 7 rules to speak English easily

Hy Guys..

What’s up??

I hope you are doing great because in this chance I would like to share special secrets to improve our English. You wanna know?? Okay, here we are….

Do you know AJ Hoge? Or Have you ever heard AJ Hoge? I’m sure some of you have heard that name and the others not yet. Okay, before I tell you about AJ Hoge, I’m gonna tell you how can I get this. I got it from my English course in Pare and my teacher gave some records about it. I listened to them for many times and finally I decided to write it down in my blog. I hope it can help us to learn English easily.

Now, I’m gonna tell you about him and what the lesson he teachs about. AJ Hoge is an English teacher and he has master degree in teaching english. He lives in San Fransisco, USA. He likes to enjoy travel, scuba diving, motorcycle riding, movies, and learning Spanish.

He teachs about 7 rules to speak English faster and more easily.

Rule 1 : STOP STUDYING ENGLISH WORD

Yeah, don’t memorize English singular/individual word, but memorize phrases. Always study and review phrases. Phrase is a group of many words that has a meaning. It’s usually called as ideom and It will help you study English faster.

For example :

Below are some of simple ideoms for conversations. I got it when I was studying Speak First in Daffodils, Pare.

As a matter of fact : Kenyataannya

Catch a cold : flu/ masuk angin

Every Jack must have his Jill : Setiap orang pasti ketemu jodohnya

Love me little, Love me long : Cintai aku selamanya

Heart to heart conversation : Curhat

I guess by studying phrases or ideoms, it will help us to study English faster because native speaker doesn’t speak word by word, but they speak using ideoms and slanks. So, let’s study together .

Rule 2 : STOP STUDYING GRAMMAR

There is a story from Angelina. She is a student from Paraguay. When she studied with AJ Hoge, she couldn’t speak in English. She had studied English grammar for many years but she couldn’t speak. She was surprised when she knew that AJ Hoge never told about grammar rules. After only two weeks something amazing happened. Her speaking improved!! Angelina is a great student and she learned extrafast and she listened English for 5 hours a day. But AJ Hoge said that we can improve our English by listen English for one hour a day and we can get same result, but we must follow Rule 2, STOP STUDYING GRAMMAR! Grammar teachs us to think about English, whereas we have to speak English automatically without thinking. So, put away your grammar books and stop studying grammar right now :D.

Rule 3 : LISTENING, LISTENING, AND LISTENING

There is a story from Omberto. He is from Venezuela and he moved to Canada few years ago. He studied English in Venezuela for many years. In fact, Omberto studied English by his eyes, by reading text book, by studying grammar book, and by remembering words. He told his English was good but when he came to Canada, he was surprised and shocked. He couldn’t understand anyone. He joined English school in Canada and he went to school everyday. There were more text books and more grammar books. After twelve months in school, Omberto was angry and frustrated. His school cost over ten thousand dollars for one year. But he still couldn’t speak English and he didn’t know what to do. But now, he can speak engish and he always speaks with Canadian. What rule?? Rule 3 is the most important rule. Rule 3 is Listening, Listening, and Listening. Stop reading text book, and start listening everyday. Learn with your ears, not with your eyes. You should listen one or three hours everyday. This is powerful method. Try it!! 

Rule 4 : LEARN DEEPLY, SPEAK EASILY

Hyun is a student from Korea said “I’m very serious student. When studying English in Korea, I memorize 50.000 english words for a big test. My problem was I couldn’t use them. I can pass English test but I couldn’t understand native speakers. Here with AJ Hoge, I learn automatically use the vocabulary and after six months I could speak English easily. I didn’t need to think. Thank you so much.”

And AJ Hoge said : Hyun learned a lot of words in a short time. Her learning was short. That’s why she quickly forgot the words, that’s why she couldn’t use them. The secret to speak easily is to learn every word and phrase deeply. It’s not enough to know a definition. It’s not enough to remember for a test. You must put the words deep into your brain. To speak English easily, you must repeat each lesson many times. You must learn English deeply. Learn deeply, speak easily. How to learn deeply? Easy!! Just repeat all lessons or listening many times. For example, if you have audio book, listen to the first chapter 30 times before you go to second chapter. You could listen to the first chapter three times a day for ten days. So, be patient guys 

Rule 5 : USE POINT OF VIEW MANY STORIES

In rule 2, AJ Hoge told us never to study grammar rules, but of course we want to use English correct grammar. Maybe we’re thinking how can we learn English grammar if we don’t study English grammar rules? Well, in this rule 5, AJ Hoge will tell us. He would teach us way to learn grammar naturally. Use this method and our grammar will improve automatically. You will automatically use the correct verb tense. You won’t think, you won’t try hard.

Story : Miyuki did very well in grammar test. She knew all the grammar rules. But miyuki had a problem. She couldn’t use the grammar in real conversation. She could explain the past tense but when speaking she would say “yesterday, I go to school”. Miyuki was confused. How can the grammar test was so good but her speaking was so bad. But after using point of view stories, she feels it and uses it correctly. Now, her grammar is great when she speak. She never think about it and she just automatically use correct grammar. Thank you AJ Hoge.

AJ Hoge said : Miyuki learned this grammar naturally. She never studied grammar rules. How did you do it? First, she listened to short story in the present tense. She listened to it everyday. Then, she listened to the exact same story but this time is when 10 years ago. She learned to feel the past tense by listening to the story. Next, I gave her the exact same story. This time is happened with since 2004. Miyuki learned to feel the perfect tenses by listening to this story. Finally, I gave her the exact same story beginning with next year. She learned to feel the future tense simply by listening to this story.

Rule 5, use point of view many stories. He called these stories point of view many stories. Use point of view many stories for automatical grammar. You must learn grammar by listening to real English. The best way is to listen to the same story in different times. Point of view, past, perfect, present, future. How do you do this? It’s easy. Find the story in the present tense, then ask your native speaker to write it again in the past with perfect tenses and in the future. Finally ask him to read and record the story for you. Then, you can listen to the story many different kind of grammar. You don’t need to know the grammar rule. Just listen to the point of view story and you will improve your grammar automatically. You can also find point of view lessons and use them to learn grammar automatically. It’s powerful, it’s simple. It’s successful. You will succeed if you use grammar naturally and automatically. This is a secret to english grammar. How to learn real English.

Rule 6 : LEARN REAL ENGLISH, NOT TEXT BOOK

Magdeleo studied English for five years in Venezuela. Teacher said that he was a good student. One day, he talked to American woman and everything changed. The woman started talking and he couldn’t understand her, not at all. Her pronunciation was different with the text book. She used ideom, slank, and many casual phrases. He was confused and he realized that he needed to learn real English.

AJ Hoge told Magdeleo to learn with real English materials. Learning English we use everyday in conversations, books, movies, tv shows, komic books, audio books, newspapers, magazines, radio talkshow and broadcasts. Stop learning text book English. If you want to understand native speaker, you must stop learning English from text book. To learn real English, you must listen to English that native speaker listen to. You must watch what they watch. You must read what they read. Listen only to real English.

Rule 7 : LISTEN AND ANSWER, NOT LISTEN AND REPEAT

Emy is Japanese woman had a problem. Her speaking was slow. She could not answer question quickly. She listened and repeated what the speaker said. And AJ Hoge recommended her to listen and answer many stories. He told that listen and repeat is not enough, but listen and answer, you need to think. By using this method, emy can improve her English. Use listen and answer many story lessons. In the story, speaker told short simple story and he also asked a lot of easy questions. Everytime you hear question, you post and answer. You learn to answer question quickly without thinking. Your English becomes automatically. How can you use listen and answer story? Easy. Find the native speaker, ask him to use this method, ask him to tell you a story and give question about it. These would teach you to think quickly in English. This is the last rule.

So guys, you got it?? Emm.. I think the rules are interesting but actually I have a problem with native speaker because I have no friend from abroad, I mean there is no native speaker for me. How can I ask them to help me improve my English. Yeach, this is my problem and still confusing until now. Haha. But it’s okay. There must be a way to reach Rome!! 

   KEEP IT UP!!! WE CAN DO IT!!   