英語の勉強の仕方2～文法を勉強してはいけない～

ルールNo.1に続きルールNo.2です。

文法を勉強するな！と言われても困るかもしれませんが、文法をいちいち考えているとリアルタイムの会話コミュニケーションについていけないので、流暢さを身に付けるためには、より反射的に使える英語を学ばなければいけない、というのが今回の趣旨です。今まで10年以上学校で教科書文法を勉強してきて、英語ができるようになっていないのですから、やり方を変える必要があります。

では、どうすればいいのかというと、YouTube英語学習です。文法書は燃やして、YouTubeだけ聞き続け、聞いたそばからシャドウイングし、何回も聞いた動画が耳と記憶に残り、そのセリフやフレーズが自分の口から自然と出てくるようにするのです。文法を気にしなくても、ネイティブが話している言葉をそのまま真似すれば、自然な英語になります。自分で考えて日本語から置き換えた不自然な英語を話すより、そっちの方がずっと楽で間違いが少ないです。

とはいえ、今まで学んできた文法を忘れる必要はないですし、目的によっては文法も当然必要です。通翻訳者になる、学術論文を書く、TOEICの点数を上げる、などのためには文法を学ぶ必要があったりします。

しかし、ことコミュニケーションにおいては、文法よりも流暢さ、反応速度、説明力などの方が重要になってきます。文法を学んで実践に挑むより、実際に自分の好きなYouTube動画を見ていく中で、気になった単語や文法を調べていく方が記憶にも残ります。

それでは今日もYouTube英語学習を楽しんでいきましょう！

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hi this is AJ and it's time for secret
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or rule number two for excellent English
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speaking now this one I think is going
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to be your favorite I think this is
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going to be your favorite secret because
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most of our subscribers most of our
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students tell us this is the one they
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love that they loved hearing this but it
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set them free so what is it what is
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secret number two secret number two is
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this never again
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study grammar rules woohoo you're
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finished with grammar no more never
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study grammar rules now I know this may
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be a big surprise this is a surprise for
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a lot of people for a lot of our
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students a lot of our subscribers a lot
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of our members when they first hear this
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rule they're they're shocked they're
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surprised and they think oh is that true
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could that be possible maybe you're
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feeling a little unsure about this
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particular secret or rule well that's
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natural the reason it seems shocking or
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surprising is that all your life that
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you have been learning English your
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teachers have been telling you study
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grammar study grammar study grammar
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grammar is the secret grammar is the
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secret to English grammar grammar
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grammar grammar I don't know exactly
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when you started studying English maybe
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in elementary school when you were young
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maybe in middle school or high school
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when you're a bit older maybe later than
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that
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but I'm sure that in school your
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teachers told you grammar was the key
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grammar was super important you had to
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study all these grammar rules you have
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to know the the past and the past
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perfect and the present and the present
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perfect and the present progressive
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and the future perfect progressive you
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didn't know what all of that stuff was
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and how to do all of the changes to the
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verbs and you have to know possessives
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of course and then there were all the
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prepositions endless grammar you have to
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memorize all of these rules and probably
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most of your English classes were
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focused on these grammar rules and then
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taking tests about these grammar rules
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it doesn't work stop doing it you're
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finished in our system no grammar rules
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study now some people when they hear
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this they think no no that's not right
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and they don't they don't believe me so
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I have only one question for you you
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have been learning these grammar rules
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for years and years and years my simple
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question is did it work can you now
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speak English easily quickly and
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automatically is your grammar correct
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when you speak or do you still make
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mistakes with simple grammar like the
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like the past tense I mean if you're a
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fantastic amazing English speaker
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probably you don't need to watch this
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video but I'm guessing if you're
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watching this it means you're not a
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great English speaker you do not have
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excellent English speaking and yet you
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know so much grammar I guarantee you no
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more grammar than I do because I don't
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think about this stuff when I speak
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English I just use it automatically I
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don't need to think about the past tense
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or the present perfect or anything else
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it just comes out correctly usually I
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make mistakes sometimes like everyone
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but normally it just comes out when you
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speak your own language do you think
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about grammar rules of course not
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see
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here's the problem with grammar rules
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they cause you to think about English so
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you are always analyzing it meaning
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you're always thinking about it all the
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time now for writing that's okay I mean
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even when I write in English sometimes I
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might stop for a minute and think oh
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wait wait what's the grammar for that
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not usually but sometimes maybe why can
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I do that why can you do that well
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because of course with writing you have
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plenty of time there's no there's no
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pressure there's no speed you can write
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very very very slowly and then you can
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go and you can write the same thing
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again
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and then you can show it to somebody and
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say is this correct and they can say oh
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no you know change this and then you can
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write it again all of that is possible
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with writing so you know if you want to
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study grammar rules for writing you know
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okay but here's the problem for speaking
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there is no time if I walk up to you and
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I say hey how's it going what did you do
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yesterday you have no time to be
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thinking about grammar which tense is it
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and what do I say there's no time you
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need to answer immediately instantly
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automatically and when you speak that
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grammar needs to be correct
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automatically you can't be thinking
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about it you can't be trying to remember
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some grammar rules no if you are
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thinking about grammar rules it causes
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you to speak slowly causes you to
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hesitate and stop a lot and when you're
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listening to people if you're thinking
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about grammar you're not really hearing
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them very well it causes huge problems
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you have to stop studying grammar no
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more see native speakers meaning people
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who grow up learning English we never
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study grammar
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I never study grammar until high school
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when I was about 16 years old we started
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studying some grammar but it was just
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for writing it was just for academic
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writing for writing for school kind of
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paper
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that's all but by then I already used
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correct spoken grammar perfectly so how
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did I learn grammar as the child how
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does it happen every American child
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learns to speak with good English
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grammar most at least do how do they do
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it if they don't study grammar rules
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well we talked about it in secret number
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one first of all they're learning it
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from phrases natural phrases and there's
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a few other ways that they're learning
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grammar which we'll talk about in some
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of our future secrets or rules but the
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point is they are not studying grammar
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rules do they do not get themselves
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confused with grammar rules if you're
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thinking about grammar rules you're
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going to be confused it's going to hurt
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your speaking ability so you must stop
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now and never do it again in fact here's
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what I want you to do go grab all your
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grammar books English grammar books and
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put them on top of each other and then
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burn them get a fire put some gasoline
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on there and let the fire come up and if
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you want you can dance around it and
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celebrate and smile and jump around
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because you are free of English grammar
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no more with our system you will never
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study another grammar rule again I
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promise you and that should make you
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happy because I know that grammar rules
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caused a lot of pain a lot of boredom a
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lot of frustration nobody likes them so
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just forget it so this is good news
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today secret number two rule number two
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is great news throw away your grammar
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books burn them have a party celebrate
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because you will never study grammar
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rules again and that is secret number
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two I'll see you again tomorrow for a
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very important secret it's also very
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simple but very powerful have a great
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day