A.J. Hoge's Blog, page 51
October 22, 2016
Juicing Power | Mike Cernovich
Juicing Power is a book by Mike Cernovich. AJ reviews the book and discusses the powerful benefits of juicing fresh fruits and vegetables. In this Effortless English Show, AJ also talks about health pioneers Jack Lalanne and Paul Bragg. These men lived healthy and strong into their 90s.
Finally, AJ recommends a specific brand of juicer. Benefits of juicing include more energy, better concentration, better memory, faster learning, less disease, faster healing. Get juiced!
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The End of School | Zachary Slayback
The End Of School by Zachary Slayback. A book about the terrible problems in our schools and how to fix them. Slayback offers a new vision for education– a variety of choices to replace our outdated schools.
AJ Hoge, host of The Effortless English Show discusses “The End of School”. He reads a short section and teaches the vocabulary. With AJ’s lesson, you will understand this book excerpt.
AJ then discusses the ideas in The End of School.
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October 21, 2016
Effortless English Revolution
An English learning revolution. An education revolution. English classes in schools are terrible everywhere in the world. Students are stressed, tired, bored, and angry. Parents are frustrated. No amount of money or time improves the situation. What is the answer? How can we create a powerful education system that serves students? How can we create effective education? How can transfer give power back to students, learners, and families?
In this Effortless English Show, AJ discusses these problems– and the basic problem with school. He proposes a new way, and “Effortless English Revolution” to “Make Education Great Again”.
It is time for us to become the masters of our own learning!
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October 14, 2016
Answering Pronunciation Course Questions
I answer your questions about the Pronunciation Course. In a recent LIVE Facebook video, I answered your questions about improving pronunciation and developing an American accent. I also answered questions about the Pronunciation Course: what’s in it, how does it work, etc…
Some questions include:
Is it possible to learn an American accent as an adult?
Which is the best accent to learn?
Will better pronunciation help my IELTS or TOEFL score?
Why is pronunciation more important than grammar?
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October 7, 2016
Pronunciation Training Techniques
Two pronunciation training techniques to develop an American accent. AJ Hoge teaches you what to do each day in order to improve your English pronunciation. Use these techniques with any audio from a native speaker. In general, start by practicing with short audios. You can even use this video with the techniques.
In a previous video, you learned that listening carefully is the very first step for pronunciation improvement. You must first learn to hear the small but important sounds of American English. You need to hear the rhythm of English, the changes in pitch, changes in loudness (stress), and those difficult vowel and consonant sounds.
Effortless English Pronunciation is an ear training method. You learn to speak with a perfect American accent by training like a jazz musician. First you train your ears to hear all of the “music” of English. Next you learn to create this “music” correctly yourself– first slowly, then faster and faster.
In this way, you train your ears, and also the muscles in your mouth, tongue, throat, and abdomen. You learn to FEEL the correct American accent- and create it automatically. You do this every time you speak.
Enjoy the video and use the two techniques to improve your pronunciation daily!
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October 4, 2016
American Accent Ear Training
Pronunciation ear training is the topic of the above video. Pronunciation training, using ear training, is the key to sounding like a native speaker. How do you develop a perfect American accent? You first must develop your ear. You must learn to hear the detailed music of English.
What are the best training methods for English pronunciation? AJ Hoge, bestselling author of Effortless English, tells you how ear training will help you develop a clear American accent.
In the bonus video below, AJ offers a LIVE Facebook discussion of English pronunciation. He tells you why Pronunciation is much more important than grammar. AJ also answers live question about pronunciation and American accent training.
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July 28, 2016
Real English Learning | The Effortless English Show
Have you ever heard of an abstraction? This is probably a new word to you but the meaning is not new to you at all. An abstraction is an idea but not the actual thing. Real English learning can sometimes be an abstraction.
When you go to a restaurant, you look at the menu, it’s a piece of paper. It’s what we call an abstraction. It’s not anything you would eat. It’s just words on a page. You can read the menu. When you read the menu, you’ll get some ideas in your mind about what the dish will be, how it might taste, how it might smell. But that’s not real, you’re just imagining. It’s all in your head, it’s all an abstraction. You can’t eat the menu. You can try, but you’d only be eating paper. You would get no taste or smell or nutrition from eating the menu. The menu is an abstraction, the meal is the real thing. The meal is the real life. And no matter how good the menu is, even if the description’s amazing, it will never really give you the experience of eating the actual food.
You need real world English, that’s why I do this podcast. In my podcast, I don’t talk about grammar rules. I talk about real life topics. Real world English. In this latest podcast, I talk about a book right now that I enjoy, “Dumbing Us Down”. I talk about life strategies that I think might be useful or helpful to you. I talk in a very normal, real world, conversational way. I do this because you need real world English – real English learning! You don’t need grammar rules, vocabulary lists, et cetera.
Please join me as I discuss the importance of emphasizing word endings, new books I am reading and more about abstractions!
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July 21, 2016
Independent English Learning | The Effortless English Show
Did you know that you can take six, seven or even eight years of English class and still not know how to speak English? So what are you learning in English class? You are learning how to follow the rules and do what you are supposed to do. But when you get out of class, you no longer have someone telling you how to study English. You no longer have someone telling you to take a test, study, practice your English.
I’m not here to tell you exactly what to do. I am not your boss. I don’t want to be your boss. I want to be your friend. I want to be your guide. Your coach, your coach who encourages you to be a great performer. Your coach who encourages you, motivates you, to be stronger, to be an independent learner, to have success independently, to get what you want from life, not what I want you, for you.
One of our important values in Effortless English is self-reliance. Self-reliance. It’s an important value. It means, basically, trust yourself. Trust, believe that you are smart enough. You are good enough. You can make your own decisions. You are your own boss. You are the boss of your learning. You are the boss of your life. Not me. Not some other teacher.
In this episode of the Effortless English Show, I share with you easy ways to improve your English reading and English speaking. I share with you the types of books you can read and techniques you can incorporate to improve your English. Most importantly I share with ways to take your power back and have the confidence to know you have what it takes to speak and read English fluently!!
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July 13, 2016
Play Acting for Better Pronunciation | The Effortless English Show
Do you understand and speak English but have a hard time being understood? Are you fluent in English and have perfect grammar but your pronunciation is bad? Did you know there’s a psychological importance for pronunciation? People will respect you more, automatically, unconsciously, when your pronunciation is clear.
Is this fair? No, it’s not fair, I know. If your pronunciation is bad, people may not respect you as much. They may see you more like a child, and will react to you more like a child with less respect. I know it’s not fair, but this is reality, this is the real world. On the other hand, when you have very good pronunciation with your English, when people listen to you, when you talk to other people, especially native speakers, Americans, Canadians, British, Australian, when your pronunciation is very good, they respect you more, and they also accept you more quickly and more easily. Fair or not fair, this is reality and so pronunciation is also very important for these reasons.
In this audio, I share with you a very simple but effective technique for improving your English pronunciation. If you follow me on Twitter and YouTube you know that I like to use movies to help you learn English. In this blog, we use imitation but I share with you a secret for quickly improving your pronunciation – and it’s fun! In each blog, I also share a Twitter question. If you would like to submit a question to me via Twitter, please follow me @AJHoge.
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Effortless English Show – Season 2, Episode 2: Play Acting for Better Pronunciation
Do you understand and speak English but have a hard time being understood? Are you fluent in English and have perfect grammar but your pronunciation is bad? Did you know there’s a psychological importance for pronunciation? People will respect you more, automatically, unconsciously, when your pronunciation is clear.
Is this fair? No, it’s not fair, I know. If your pronunciation is bad, peoplemay not respect you as much. They may see you more like a child, and will react to you more like a child with less respect. I know it’s not fair, but this is reality, this is the real world. On the other hand, when you have very good pronunciation with your English, when people listen to you, when you talk to other people, especially native speakers, Americans, Canadians, British, Australian, when your pronunciation is very good, they respect you more, and they also accept you more quickly and more easily. Fair or not fair, this is reality and so pronunciation is also very important for these reasons.
In this audio, I share with you a very simple but effective technique for improving your English pronunciation. If you follow me on Twitter and YouTube you know that I like to use movies to help you learn English. In this blog, we use imitation but I share with you a secret for quickly improving your pronunciation – and it’s fun! In each blog, I also share a Twitter question. If you would like to submit a question to me via Twitter, please follow me @AJHoge.
Click here to download a free PDF of the text transcript.
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