英語の勉強の仕方6～本物の英語を学ぼう！～

ルールNo.5に続きルールNo.6です。今回が最も大事なルールです(6回目)

 外国人の方が「私の名前はジョンです、私の趣味はスポーツ観戦です」みたいな日本語を話しているのを聞いた時、文法的には全く間違いはないけれど、日本人からしたら不自然だなと感じることはありますよね。日本人の英語に関しても全く同じことが言えます。教科書で英語を習って、教科書通りのセリフを話しても、「教科書みたいな喋り方をする人だな」と思われてしまいます。実際の会話の中でそのような会話をする人は、やはり不自然なのです。AJは動画の中で、Fake conversation と呼んでいます。あり得ないセリフをいくら練習しても、役に立つことはないですよね。

では、どうすればいいのかというと、どう考えてもYouTube英語学習法ですね。

YouTube動画で話される英語は、完全なる日常であり、自然な生の英語です。その生の英語に可能な限り多く触れ、慣れることにより、自分自身も自然と自然な英語を話せるようになります。

英語学習者に向けた文章は、出版社が作り上げて声優が演じている、架空の会話です。生の自然な会話ではありません。生の英語というのは、BBCや海外YouTuberが話している、ネイティブ自身も見るコンテンツのことです。教科書が楽しい人は続ければいいですが、楽しくないのであればやり方を変えるべきです。楽しくないことを続けていても効果は上がりません。

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 it's AJ and welcome to rule number
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six rule number six is simple but very
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very important and very very effective
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fact you'll have noticed that all of
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these rules are simple but they're very
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powerful in fact individually they're
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very powerful just using one of these
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rules can improve your English speaking
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a lot but the real power comes when you
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use all seven of them to totally change
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the way you learn English so what's
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number six number six is this only use
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authentic real English materials what
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does that mean well put another way
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don't use textbooks I talked about this
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already when I was talking about
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throwing away your grammar books but
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really you need to throw away all of
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your textbooks all of them get rid of
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them they're horrible they're boring you
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know they're boring they're useless you
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know get rid of all the grammar
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textbooks all those with a little fake
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you know conversations in them and all
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the nice little graphics and pictures
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they put in to try to make them seem
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interesting when in fact it's really
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boring because what are those textbooks
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really have they got a bunch of fake
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conversations with boring actors reading
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them and then they have a bunch of
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little boring activities and drills that
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are supposed to help you improve your
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communication it's all bad it's not
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going to help you what you need to do
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instead is use only authentic real
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English materials what does that mean
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well when I say real here's what I mean
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I mean the best materials are the ones
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that are for native speakers in other
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words books and audios and videos that
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are made for Canadians Americans British
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people Australians they're not made for
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foreigners learning English they're made
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for the people
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actually living in those countries
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that's a real authentic material book CD
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video whatever you can also use
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materials that are very very very very
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similar or very very close to real
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materials for example there are some
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really good books out there storybooks
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that they're they're about real stories
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you know written about you know like
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little novels little short novels but
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they're using a little bit simpler
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English so that people who are learning
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English can understand them a little
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more easily but it's not a text book
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it's a real story some of them have
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audio so it's like a real audio book
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real interesting information it's not
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you know a bunch of rules and stupid
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activities and fake conversations so
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those kind of materials are also quite
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good that's what I mean when I say real
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materials real I want to give you an
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example of this let's say you wanted to
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improve your reading your English
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reading skills now there's two ways to
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do this the old traditional boring way
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which doesn't work is to go out and get
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a bunch of you know fake tests for
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example a bunch of TOEFL tests and read
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all those extremely boring essays in the
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the TOEFL book and then take a bunch of
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tests with it or you could get some
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reading comprehension textbook once
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again reading a bunch of boring stories
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written by boring people and then take a
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bunch of boring tests or answer a bunch
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of boring questions at the end of it
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it's not very fun and it's not effective
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you could also go out and buy some
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vocabulary books and try to memorize all
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this new vocabulary it is huge lists
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none of that works very well I mean you
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can't improve that way but it's very
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slow and it's painfully boring a much
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better way and the research shows a much
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more effective and powerful way is to
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read
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easy stories to read easy novels now
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what does easy mean well it depends on
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your level for some people easy means
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children's books right books that are
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made for American children or British
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children or Australian children whatever
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but they're not made for foreign
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students they're made for the local
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people but they're in an easier level
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because they're for children for you for
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a lot of people watching this video
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probably I would say easy novels for
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young adults for you know older
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elementary school children or middle
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school children or high school level
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depends on what your level is so when I
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say easy I usually mean you should
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understand about 95% of the words
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without a dictionary so then you can
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easily guess the other 5% I've mentioned
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this before so if you wanted to improve
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your reading what you would do is you'd
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go out and you would read as many of
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these novels as you could you could read
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magazines easy magazines for for kids or
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for young adults and read lots of them
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you could read a lot of novels you know
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there's lots of those novels for for
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adolescents adventure novels romance
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novels and you know they're for a young
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adult so they might be a little bit like
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not really for total adults but it's
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much more interesting and fun to read
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those than textbooks I promise you and
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you would read lots and lots and lots of
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them and as you did that your vocabulary
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would increase your reading
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comprehension would increase very
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quickly your reading speed in English
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would improve very very quickly and soon
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in just a few months those kinds of
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books would be super easy for you and
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then you could start reading more
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difficult material maybe you would start
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reading you know high school level
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novels and stories and you've read lots
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and lots and lots of those if you like
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romance you read romance books if you
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like adventure you read adventure if you
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like science fiction or fantasy you'd
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read those kind of books if you write
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like none
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fiction well you read a lot of
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nonfiction but it'd be real books and
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then eventually those would feel easy
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after it happens quite quickly in fact
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if you if you read every single day like
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that you improve quickly and then you
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could go up to adult level novels you
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could read books by you know famous
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best-selling authors John Grisham
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Stephen King again depends on your
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interest always choose things that you
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personally like and enjoy and by reading
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lots and lots and lots of those books
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reading lots and lots and lots of
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Stephen King King books for example or
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John Grisham books you're reading would
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improve so fast so powerfully and so
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much faster so much more powerfully than
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someone who's trying to learn from
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textbooks and reading comprehension
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books and vocabulary books this is a
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much faster more powerful way to improve
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your reading now of course in these
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rules we're talking about speaking and
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listening so how do you do that well
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it's the same idea it's exactly the same
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idea instead of using books you would
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use audios so you want to listen to as
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many easy real audios as you can every
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day you want listen to audio stories you
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want to listen to easy audio books you
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want to listen to podcasts audio
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podcasts audio radio shows easy audios
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on topics that you enjoy that that are
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entertaining it's real stuff and you
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would follow that same thing for a while
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those really easy ones would maybe they
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would feel a little difficult to you but
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after listening to them again and again
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and again they quickly become easy then
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you go up to a higher level and then you
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do it again again and again and again
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and soon you're listening to real audios
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real audiobooks for adults for American
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adults for British adults or real radio
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shows for Americans or Canadians or
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British or Australian you can mix all of
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those it doesn't matter that is how you
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learn real English because see
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the textbooks it's not real English it's
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very unnatural those fake conversations
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are unnatural and we don't really speak
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that way right what's lesson one in most
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textbooks hello hi how are you I'm fine
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and you
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right and you have these actors reading
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that conversation in a very unnatural
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way the pronunciation is very strange
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because nobody really talks like that
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and in fact in the United States when
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you meet someone the first time you will
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almost never hear that kind of
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conversation people really say things
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like how you doing what's up nice to
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meet you you don't find those little
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phrases in most textbooks yet those are
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the most common real ways of greeting
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people that's why you know you learn all
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this textbook English and then you go to
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a country and you can't understand
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anybody even though you know you know
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ten thousand words or twenty thousand
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words or something and you know all this
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grammar but you can't understand the
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real people having real conversations
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why because you learn textbook English
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you did not learn from real English
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materials authentic English materials so
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if you want to be able to function with
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real English especially if you want to
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talk to people who are from Canada or
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the United States or the UK or Australia
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then you must learn from real materials
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very important and you know once again
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this is how children learn right
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children do not study textbooks to learn
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their own language right little
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two-year-olds and one-year-olds and
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three-year-olds are not studying English
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textbooks in the United States they're
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learning from stories in real
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conversations and real communication
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about real ideas or real emotions that's
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how they learn and that's why they speak
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so naturally and effortlessly if you
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bring a foreign child a child from
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another country
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to the United States and you put them
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with a bunch of children in American
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children who speak English all the time
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that child will learn English perfectly
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with no textbooks with no grammar study
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how do they do it well they do it with
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real stories real playing playing with
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the other children real communication
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real English so what you need to do is
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number one is go out and get real
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materials and of course our lessons
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that's what I do
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I tell you stories and I give you a lot
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of teachings my lessons are not focused
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on the little parts of English because I
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don't want you to think about that at
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all I want you to think about
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interesting ideas I want you to feel
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entertained I want you to focus on the
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emotions and the ideas of what I'm
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saying that what's inside the audio so
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most of my main lessons are on personal
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growth topics about being more healthy
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having more energy being more successful
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in all parts of your life I want you
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focused on those ideas your your
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learning English at the same time but I
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don't want you thinking about every
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little word I don't want you thinking
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about the grammar rules
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I want you focusing on the ideas I'm
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powerful ideas interesting ideas as you
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focus on those real ideas real emotions
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you will learn the English automatically
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it's the same with the stories I make
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them funny and crazy so that you
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remember them so that you are
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entertained you're focused on the
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emotions and the crazy ideas in this
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story and the grammar and the vocabulary
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and the pronunciation just happened
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automatically you're focused on being
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entertained you're focused on getting
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interesting information useful
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information that's what makes real
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materials so powerful and so much better
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than some terrible boring useless
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textbook which will not teach you real
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English anyway so use real materials in
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order to improve much much much
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to understand real speech so that when
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you go to a country or you talk to
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someone from an english-speaking country
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you will actually understand them you
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understand the real English they use in
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conversations not some textbook that
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nobody uses and I think another big
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reason to use real materials as you'll
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enjoy it more it's just more fun it's
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more interesting instead of learning a
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bunch of boring junk in a textbook
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that's that's just useless and not real
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you get to learn real interesting ideas
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or you get to be entertained you get to
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have interesting emotions it's real
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stuff it's the kind of things you might
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enjoy in your own language so important
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so powerful so rule number six is this
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use only authentic real English
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materials and that's rule six tomorrow's
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our last rule so look for the next email
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tomorrow
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last rule see you again bye bye