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Hello everyone. Welcome to the Effortless EnglishNewsletter Special Editions! Each of these seveneditions will guide you through my 7 Rules for

Excellent English step-by-step to help you become a betterEnglish speaker.

This program is a powerful new method for English learning.You’ll watch a video teaching a new rule every day for seven days.Each of my seven rules teaches you a totally different way to learnEnglish. After seven days, you’ll know the complete EffortlessEnglish system!

Every Special Edition of this newsletter containsthe text version of the daily video. You can down-load the free audios by clicking on the links thatsay “Download this Podcast!” This way, you canlisten as you read along. Each lesson will teachyou a powerful new rule, such as “The TruthAbout Grammar” (Rule 2) or “The Number OneKey to Faster Speaking” (Rule 7). Learninghow to speak better English is simple and fun!So let’s get started ...

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Hi, it’s AJ, and it’s timefor rule number five.Now, rule five is one

of my favorites. You’ll remember way back in

rule number two that I told youdo not study grammar rules. Itold you to get rid of your gram-mar textbooks and some of youare feeling stressed, because allyour life you were told thatgrammar, grammar, grammar isthe key to English. Now, if itwas the key to English youprobably would be speaking alot better now, because I knowyou’ve already studied a lot ofgrammar rules.

Now, on the other hand,grammar itself is important. Ofcourse we need grammar. Ofcourse we need to use grammarcorrectly when we speak, butyou don’t learn it from studyinggrammar rules or memorizing abunch of rules in a textbook. In-stead, rule number five is this.Use point-of-view stories. Usepoint-of-view stories. That’s rulenumber five.

Now, a point-of-view story, it’sa method. It’s a technique forlearning English grammar and,specifically, for learning spokenEnglish grammar because, ofcourse, we’re talking aboutspeaking here, not writing. So,use point-of-view stories tolearn English grammar. Don’tuse textbooks. Don’t study

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grammar rules. Instead, usepoint-of-view stories.

Now, what is a point-of-viewstory? I know you’re asking,what is a point-of-view story.Most people don’t know aboutthis, so here’s a very simple ex-planation. A point-of-view storyor stories, actually, it’s a seriesof stories, point-of-view stories.It’s a series of stories.

So, basically, what you needto do is you get one basic storytold from a certain point ofview. What that means really isit’s told about a certain time, forexample, let’s say the past. So,we would tell a story aboutsomething that happened in thepast. Let me give you a very,very, very simple example.

There was a dog. He was veryhungry, so he ate a lot of food.

That’s not much of a story,but it’s just an example, okay?So, you would listen to thisstory in the past.

Ten years ago there was a dog.He was very hungry and he ate

a lot of food.Then, of course, a real point-

of-view story would be muchlonger. It would be more inter-esting and funny and it wouldbe a little more complicated,but just for our example I’ll usesomething very, very, very, verysimple so you understand theidea.

So, the first thing is, you lis-ten to this story from one pointof view, the past. And, ofcourse, as you’re listening to

that you’re learning the pasttense. You’re learning the verbforms that go with the simplepast, but you don’t need tostudy in a textbook the simplepast.

You don’t need to know that“ate” is an irregular form of theverb. You don’t need to knowany of that. All you need to do islisten to the story and as long asyou understand that the story ishappening in the past, you willnaturally, subconsciously and,

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in fact, effortlessly learn thecorrect past tense verb forms.You don’t need to memorizeanything. You certainly don’tneed to analyze any kind ofrules or textbooks.

Now, here’s the next thing youdo with point-of-view stories.Next, you would listen to thatsame exact story, but now itwould be told from the presentpoint of view. So, you might lis-ten to a story that starts like this.

There is a dog and right nowhe’s very hungry, so he eats a lotof food.

Now, again, this isn’t a realstory, but it gives you an exam-ple. It’s the same basic structure,the same basic story, but now it’shappening now. It’s happeningtoday or it might happen everyday. So, what you would do isthen you’d listen to that story. Ofcourse, a real story would belonger and more complicatedand more interesting and fun-nier, but you get the idea.

By listening now to these twoversions of the story, you wouldlearn the past and then youwould learn the present. Youwouldn’t just learn the verbforms. You would learn all ofthe structures. You would learnhow we talk about the past. Youwould learn how we talk aboutthe present. You would learnthose important little timephrases like “right now”, “today”,

“10 years ago”, because thoselittle time phrases tell youwhich verbs to use.

And, of course, you could lis-ten to the same story again, an-other version. Maybe the nextversion would involve both thepresent perfect and the presentor the present perfect and thepast. Again, you don’t need toknow the present perfect. Youdon’t need to know what thatmeans. You don’t need to ana-lyze it. You don’t need to remem-ber it. You would just listen tothe story and as long as you un-derstood the meaning and thetime you would learn the pres-ent perfect correctly, effortlessly,subconsciously. It would go intoyour brain without thinking andthat’s what we want.

With speech there’s no timeto think and remember a bunchof rules. There’s no time totranslate. Everything happensvery instantly, immediately, au-tomatically. You need to think itin English, feel it in English,understand it instantly in Eng-lish, say it instantly in Englishcorrectly and you’ll never learnthat by studying grammar rules.It will not happen. You willlearn it through point-of-viewstories.

And, of course, we could tellthe same story again from a fu-ture point of view. We couldimagine… t

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In the future there will be adog and he’ll be very hungry. Hewill be very hungry and he’sgonna eat a lot of food. “Gonna,”means going to.

So, you would listen to awhole long story. It’s the samebasic story, but now it’s toldabout the future and by listen-ing to all the different versionsyour brain would get a feelingfor how things change. Some-times it’s not just the verb,sometimes the vocabularychanges a little bit when we talkabout different time periods.

And, of course, it’s not justverb forms. We can use othergrammar to focus on with thesekinds of stories and makingthese changes helps your brainunderstand what’s happeningwithout you having to thinkabout it and analyze it and mem-orize like you’re taking a test. Itall just happens automatically bylistening to these simple, funny,interesting stories and listeningto all the different versions.

That’s how you learn spokenEnglish grammar. That’s howyou learn to use it instantly, au-tomatically, correctly. This ismuch more powerful thanstudying some book and thegreat thing is all you have to doas the student, as the learner,all you need to do is just listento each version of the storyevery day. That’s all.

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point-of-view stories,you will learn to usegrammar automaticallyand correctly ... and youwill learn much faster!

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Your job is just to listen, un-derstand and enjoy the stories.You just need to concentrateand focus so you can hear howthings are changing. You don’tneed to remember any grammarterms. You don’t need to remem-ber present perfect, past perfect,you know future progressive.None of that matters. You canjust forget all that it doesn’tmatter. All you have to do is un-derstand what the story is about.

Understand the meaning, un-derstand the point of view, thetime that’s it’s happening andthen you can compare the dif-

ferent versions of the stories asyou listen to each one every day.It’s a really easy and fun way todo it and, of course, in my realpoint-of-view stories I make thestories crazy and funny and en-tertaining and I make themstrange, because it’s easier toremember strange and funnythings than normal and boringthings. So that’s also important.

So, this is how you learngrammar easily, effortlessly, un-consciously, automatically. Thisis how you learn to get a feelingfor correctness. It’s that feelinginside that you know something

sounds right and something elsesounds wrong. You have that inyour own language. That’s howyou use correct grammar inyour own language.

When you’re speaking yourown language, you are not con-stantly trying to remember abunch of grammar rules. Ofcourse not, but if you hearsomething that’s wrong in yourlanguage, grammatically wrong,you know it. You kind of feel it,right? Something in your brainor something about it justsounds wrong.

If someone says yesterday I

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eat a lot, I don’t think oh, well,the correct form of the verb isate and it’s irregular. I don’tthink about that. Just as a na-tive English speaker it justsounds wrong. It sounds strangeto me like uh! My first reactionis deep inside it’s just kind uh!That’s wrong. I feel it.

I mean if I want to I can thinkabout it but that takes a lot oftime, but the feeling happensinstantly and automatically andthat’s what you need to speakcorrectly and to use correct spo-ken grammar. When you’rewriting I don’t care what youdo. You can think as much asyou want and go as slowly asyou want, but for speaking yougotta be instant, fast, immedi-ate; very important. So that’s it.

When you learn with point-of-view stories, you will learn touse grammar automatically andcorrectly. You will learn muchfaster. You’ll improve your spo-ken English grammar much,much faster. You’ll learn it like achild and you’ll actually havefun doing it. You will actuallyenjoy learning grammar by lis-tening to these stories and that’sa big benefit too.

So, rule number five, usepoint-of-view stories to learnand master spoken Englishgrammar. I will see you tomor-row for rule number six.

Have a great day. ■

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