The truth of spoken english business

The Truth about Spoken English

How often do we see the ads that say,

– Learn English in 30 days

– Guaranteed Learning

– Learn Spoken English easily

– Money back Guarantee

And convinced or not, we helplessly join them……….

What Happens usually next?

You are taught the same Grammar, again!!

If learning Grammar alone really helped, then most of you would have been a speaker by now,

Right??

• That is not to say, Learning Grammar doesn’t help, but think about it,

• That’s what we have been doing since school days right?

• Then why join another place to learn the same stuff all over again?

What happens during the 30 days of teaching ?

You listen too much, than take notes

You actually speak very less

How much of what you understand do you actually remember?

Just think about it

Spoken English classes do have study materials.

But how often have they really taught everything in that material in 30 days?

Who has ever completed that entire material?

These questions are usually not asked by the students even after completion of the course

and they simply leave! Bad!

When the classes are named ‘Spoken English’, how often do you actually speak?

Do you really become a decent speaker in those 30 days?

Truth is,

Something’s not right about the way Spoken English classes are being taught

That is not to say teachers do not teach efficiently in class

As a matter of fact they give their best!

It is not the teacher’s fault, it has something to do with the way the Institutes run.

Consider this,

80% of a language learning happens by listening. That’s how we have learnt our

mother tongue. Right!!

So, Why not learn English that way?

It doesn’t work that way because……..

• We don’t have English Speakers around to speak with

and

• How can we learn a language by communicating in the very language that we are trying to learn?

So, that means, for Indians, we need a different strategy to learn other than

“learn by listening”

To understand this better, first let us try to know how good speakers in India have learnt it….

They are usually good at their studies

They have memorized lots of answers

This allows them to write better in exams

Also, this is how they pick up the language structure fundamentally

This is their secret of having good communication skills.

Contrastingly,

Native Speakers learn by listening more, as we saw earlier

But

We are trying to learn by remembering more essentially, practicing to write and eventually

speaking.

Does it work?

It seems yes, but not for everyone.

Even I learnt English the

Remember-Write-Speak way

It helped me. But, what happened to “Listening”

What happened to “Translation”?

How good shall you Writing skills be?

I knew I was a good speaker

A good English teacher too

Addressing large audiences was ‘easy’ for me.

But one day, everything changed.

I happened to talk to a native English Speaker

She had huge credit bills and was jobless

Things were hard for her and her father had recently passed away

She started crying as we talked and I wanted to comfort her

But,

I couldn’t

Not that I did not know how to speak English

Nor was I disturbed by her emotional plight

But suddenly something just made me go dumb!

I had feelings for her, I wanted to comfort her with my words but I couldn’t communicate.

That day I realized I actually did not know English as good as I thought!!

Actually I realized I was not up to the mark at all.

Then, it also occurred to me,

Why do so many have been listening to me with respect and attention?

Because they ‘understood’ me

But when I wanted to comfort her,

“My language was incomplete” –

so communication was a problem

That was an eye opening moment for me.

I realized I could speak well

but

communicating with a native English Speaker was

still a problem!

Few would say by now, it must be an

accent problem.

No, it wasn’t

Accent is just the way of sounding.

In fact it was a Language problem

Do you notice the difference in the language when we speak

and

When native speakers speak English?

I could not communicate effectively with her because of that “difference”

Yet, I could communicate with my audience well because they understood me so well.

So I asked myself,

“How to know this difference?”

I went back and listed

all areas of Language development

What areas of learning is a language made of?

Reading, Understanding, Learning, Vocabulary, Speaking, Listening, Writing …so on

Then I came up with a self analysis report

I was very good at

Grammar and Syntax

My vocabulary was decent

Reading speed was good

Understanding was fine

But, I noticed,

Most of my speaking actually happened when I taught! (since I was a teacher)

Not when I hang out with my friends and family.

As we mostly end up speaking in

Mother tongue with them.

Also I noticed, much of listening happened only when,

I listened to English songs,

watched an English Movie

or perhaps

when I watched English news or documentaries.

And yes, Writing was less too.

We wrote “answers”,

that’s all we did in schools mostly!

But still I didn’t get

answer to my question

Why was I not able

to communicate with her effectively that day?

I found my answer

It is,

Phrasal verbs, Idioms and Expressions.

Did you notice that my Speaking/Listening/Writing

happened very less?

Because my environment did not allow much of these activities.

So I would switch to my native language when I am actually communicating with my friends

and family

It is family and friends that we express our thoughts, opinions and feelings freely.

That’s where most of communication in daily life happens.

And much of this daily communication is made of phrasal verbs, idioms and expression than

just Tenses and regular questions.

So that’s why my communication was bit of an issue with her. Because I never practiced

communication in English.

I just spoke.

So then are these not taught in schools?

Yes and No,

depending on which schooling background you come from.

But my point is, irrespective of the schooling background, practicing phrasal verbs, idioms

and expressions happens less since we choose to communicate in mother tongue with family and friends. And that’s where most of these

are used.

Consider this,

Just the word “call “

It could take many forms like,

call in

call after

call around

call off

call up

Consider these sentences now,

I am calling in to find out more details.

I have called my dog off

I was called up for duty reporting

I will call you around 7 pm

I called them back

Further, consider the phrasal verb forms for “go”

go in

go on

go off

go into

go through

go over

go with

Now each of these words derive from their basic verb like call and go

Yet they all differ in their own meanings

Say consider the word “look”

look into

look over

are two phrasal verbs from look.

But all three verbs have different meanings.

look into

means you would check how things are working

look over

means you will check it once again.

Now look how it affects our learning.

I will look into the file once I go back home.

Can you look into the cooker for me please?

• These examples talk about checking on

the file or the cooker on stove.

How would someone who is not familiar with phrasal verbs say,

• I will check the file again.• I will look at it when I get back home• I will go and see the cooker

If you notice, look into is the key word and we are not using in any of these sentences.

Yet we are trying to convey the same idea by using our own sentences.

This creates the difference between

a native speaker’s and our way of speaking

Again I am not saying,

they are wrong way of using sentences.

But my point is

to highlight the lacking of phrasal verbs in our language

We compensate the lack of phrasal verbs with words we already know

That’s why we sound different than native speakers

Also check these idioms/expressions

I am broke –

I don’t have a job, I am unemployed

I got to rush –

I need to go now, I must go fast.

Can I have a rain check? –

Today we cannot meet, When can we meet next? Shall we postpone?

Most of our communication is actually

basic and routine

in nature

But when we lack the idea of words like

come up, figure out, see through, get along, make out, put it out, cut it out, get a move

on, all that jazz, etc:-

we are essentially lacking the right set of words to communicate

Learning Phrasal verbs idioms and expressions helped me bridge this gap between

speaking and actually be able to communicate.

All I wanted to say to that lady that day was,

“It’s okay. I empathize with your loss. You are broke. But that doesn’t mean you would not come through this. I am sure this too shall pass. All I want you to be now is Jenny you must be stronger than ever before. Get a move on and attack life. I am sure you will figure ways out of this. “

But I could not because I did not knew these words then.

“It’s okay. I empathize with your loss. You are broke. But that doesn’t mean you would not come through this. I am sure this too shall pass. All I want you to be now is Jenny you must be stronger than ever before. Get a move on and attack life. I am sure you will figure ways out of this. “

So that’s one secret that my learning experience has taught me.

What if English learners knew this too….

How proficiently they would be able to communicate?

But that’s just the beginning.

Now take a look at this

Reading Understanding

Learning Vocabulary

Speaking

Writing

Listening

Areas that we already are familiarly strong

Areas that we need to address since we are weak

But wait we missed

Plus, in the beginning it was told that most of language picking happens by listening, but

with us it is essentially remembering.

Remembering

Also we missed,

So to say,

Translation

Reading Understanding Translation

Learning Remembering Vocabulary

Listening Speaking Writing

What you need exactly is aComplete Language-Learning System

CLS

That’s the secret to learn any language

A Complete Comprehensive Language Learning System called CLS.

That’s my discovery which has

profoundly changed my life

It has helped me understand how I should learn the things that I missed

It has helped me understand the

difference between speaking and communicating effectively

So what I did, over the last few years, I decided

to develop this system to enable almost anyone to become an effective Communicator

in English.

I am going to share how I am going to do that now.

But, first, let us answer the question we started with,

Do Spoken English classes really help?

Yes,

But not completely.

Here’s why…...

The CLS indicates that there are

three styles of learning




1

2

3




They start a language primarily by reading and slowly build their translation skills With heir understanding skills

Few start with good foundation in grammar and vocabulary, plus they have goodMemory to aid them

And in case of Native Speakers, they learn much of their language by Listening andEventually build their way up to Speaking and Writing

Reading Style - Reader

Learning Style - Grammar

Listening Style – Listens a lot

Note that it could be a mix of these three styles too. Essentially you belong to any one of these.

1 2 3




Decency Fluency Proficiency

Levels of Excellence

Reading Style - Reader

Learning Style - Grammar

Listening Style – Listens a lot

Decency Fluency Proficiency

Levels of Excellence

3 Styles of Learning




When the styles and levels are combined, we get

Complete Language-Learning System Matrix

Spoken English does repeat Grammar classes effectively.

It helps only in Learning Area.

That is incomplete.

It is not complete enough to make you communicatively effective

When a student enrolls a Spoken English Institute, they blindly assume they are going

to be “communicatively effective”

What they truly need is a

“Comprehensive Learning System”,

Not Spoken English

Not Personality Development

Not Motivation classes

But a Complete Learning System that allows all of these too.

That’s what Kevin’s Spoken English is all about

To specifically address their need to become an active learner and an effective

communicator.

They just do not know how to ask

Their solution is CLS

They cannot ask because,

One cannot ask what they don't know.

Introducing,

Kevin’s Spoken English

A complete online English Language Learning System

for free.

Yes, You read that right,

FREE!

Before I Explain why it is free,

let me silence your doubts first,

Why CLS works better than

traditional Spoken English Classes ?

• 1, we have complete learning Matrix

Reading Vocabulary Translation



• 2, we have all the learning styles covered.

• 3, we work on improving excellence from decency to proficiency

When we combine these

three good reasons,

we get something called,

Parameters

What are Parameters?

Parameters allow us to

mathematically define

our progress of learning.

That means, we are not just going to say,

“Learn English here in 30-45 days”

But,

We are categorically stating that,

“Hey, if you do the following list of activities , you should be able to communicate

effectively”

• Like say,


300-400 WordsPer minute

Should have answeredour 50 ComprehensionPassages

Translate our Entire Library of Sentences meantFor Translation

Notice the numbers for each area

• Like 300-400 words

• 50 Comprehension Passages

• ‘x’ number of sentences for Translation

When one completes the first style, what we mean is

‘you have met the numbers,

you have met the parameters’

and thus

You have achieved the

‘Reading style of learning now’

Parameters say whether you have achieved or not.

Teachers do not!

In short, you are your own monitor.

Your work is a reflection of your own progress

As we progress into the course, you will accomplish all three learning style.

Reading Style Grammar Style Speaking Style

And all of these are backed by parameters.

Knowledge Area Parameter

Reading 300-400 wpm

Understanding 50 Passages

Translation CLS Translation Library

Learning Grammar – Kevin’s Style

Remembering 2 Unique Memory Techniques

Vocabulary200 Nouns, 200 Adjectives, 200 Verbs

300 Phrasal Verbs, 600 Expressions/Idioms

Listening 30 Transcript Exercises

Speaking 75 Designed Situation Talks

Writing20 casual writing, 20 essays, 20

composition

So why are we making a system as good as this for free?

You have so many English Gurus around

saying

“Just grasp the Grammar, you’ll get it”

“Read newspaper daily”

“Learn 5 new meanings everyday”

“Watch English movies or listen to English music”

Well they are all right, the advice works, but once again,

it is not complete.

But yes it certainly helps!

With CLS, we are doing the dirty work for you.

All you need to do is watch the video,

do the assignment, update your progress,

come next day watch the next video

follow along andFinish it through

The videos are made really really simple.

All you can be assured of is –

‘You will definitely understand, what you have watched’

Most Spoken English classes do not

• make you read, but give you materials

• Vocabulary material given is not always

used in daily practice.

• Teachers usually do not get to monitor the

progress.

• No one actually cares, you watch English

movies or listen to English music!

Having said that Kevin’s Spoken English follows

Parameters based approach

The course well laid out and comprehensively detailed.

You monitor your own progress and know how you can master each Knowledge area.

Quality Training videos help you to learn in an absolutely easy manner.

Most importantly it is the only course out there that covers all Knowledge areas.

So is CLS easy?

Yes.

It does not require hard work.

It requires dedicated and consistent effort.

Remember,

It takes time to build great things,

Good news is you can learn it at your own pace.

Make sure you meet the parameters in

all the nine knowledge areas.

It takes discipline to do the assignments

daily

You don’t have to work hard,

but you have to do lots of easy work,

until you complete.

That’s how it is designed.

Kevin’s CLS is

absolutely easy,

fun

and effective.

It is designed in mind keeping the learners

who want to see real results in speaking

English

for those, who really want to become an

effective communicator, in English

for those, who want to change their life

for those to whom other English Learning

classes and methods have failed!

So,

Make a decision right now.

Commit to our CLS plan.

Do the work everyday consistently

Track your progress daily

Remember why you started your journey and keep going

Succeed in learning the language

Become ‘The Effective Communicator’ – who would not jut speak, but communicate his feelings, opinions and emotions effectively.

So make the bold step and subscribe to

our YouTube Channel @ Kevin’s Spoken

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Changing India begins with you

The reason it is free is,

To do something like CLS,

It does not need money or hard work

It takes well planned and disciplined effort

We choose to make it free to help the

real learners benefit.

We did not want any more dissatisfied

Spoken English Class Students

We sincerely would like to see learners

benefitting from this course.

If learning online is not your preferred way

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Spoken English Classes

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