depends on consistency. By continually making tiny improvements each week, you
will accelerate on the road to fluency. Each improvement builds on the ones that
came before, creating momentum.
Week by week, your listening improves. For a while, nothing seems to happen
with your speaking. You understand more but speaking seems to be no different.
Then, suddenly,
after a few months, something amazing happens. English phrases
begin to come out more quickly and easily. It happens a little at first, then more and
more each week. By the time you reach six months, you notice significant
improvement in your speaking.
This improvement is built through consistent daily rituals. When I teach seminars,
I encourage students to create Effortless English™ rituals for the morning, the day,
and the evening. For example:
In the morning, immediately upon waking, play your favorite energizing music.
As you listen to this music, take out your list of positive
English experiences and
empowering beliefs. Read each item on the list, and remember the emotion of the
positive experience. Next, think about your biggest goals for English – how you
will use the language to create a better life for yourself and your family. Finally, use
the “swish” technique ten or more times to direct and program your power movies.
At this point you are feeling great, so you’ve
worked yourself into a peak
emotional state. With the music still playing, jump, smile and shout until you feel
fantastic! Now you are ready to listen to English. Play an easy English audio.
Ideally, you will play a listen-and-answer mini story, followed by several point-of-
view stories. As you listen, shout your answers to the questions and use big
movements and gestures. If, at any point, you notice your energy dropping, play the
music again and create a peak emotional state. Then start listening to English again.
This whole morning ritual might take only thirty minutes.
You start your day
feeling great, improving your English. At that point, it’s probably time to go to
work, or school. Use your travel time to listen to more English. Since you’ll
probably be around other people, this is a good time to listen quietly to an
audiobook.
At lunch you’ll
have more free time, so spend another thirty minutes or more
listening to a mini-story or point-of-view story. If you have privacy, shout your
answers just as you did at home.
Travel home is another opportunity for more easy English listening. Perhaps you
repeat that same audiobook chapter from the morning. If you stay at home with your
kids, find moments of listening time when your kids are playing or napping. If you
walk somewhere,
or stand in line, listen to English. Use every available free
moment to listen.
When you are home in the evening, do more English listening. Ideally, choose the
same time every night and once again listen to the same mini story and point-of-
view stories in a peak state. This might take you another thirty minutes. Go into your
room if necessary to shout out the answers and really put your full energy and
emotion into it.
Then you might use the movie technique, studying and practicing a movie scene.
And even when you are doing other tasks, such as cooking dinner, always have an
English audio playing in the background. Surround yourself with the sounds of
English all day long.
By
building these daily habits, and dividing your study time into four or more
chunks throughout the day, you create intensity. The next day, you repeat the same
rituals. Because you want to learn deeply, you repeat the same audios again. Listen
to the same mini-story and point-of-view stories. Listen to the same audiobook.
Watch the same movie scene. Do this for seven days or more to really master each
of those audios. Next week, start over.
The great thing about audio story lessons is that they can be done anywhere. You
can read and listen at the same time. Or you can take a walk and listen, which is even
better. Do whatever works for you. Just do it, and soon you’ll be speaking English
fluently and with ease.
For best results, dedicate yourself to an intense schedule for six months. During
that time, listen to English
every free moment you have, however short. Always
carry English audios on your phone or audio player. Always have it with you. Use
private time for mini stories, point-of-view stories, and the movie technique. When
in public, listen quietly to audiobooks or other English audios. Fill every moment of
your life with English.
This consistent habit is the secret to your success. By focusing intensely for six
months, you will make dramatic improvements in your English speaking ability.
You will develop confidence and power. No, you will not speak perfectly, but no one
is perfect, not even native speakers.
You have used the old methods for years and are not happy with the results. Give
Effortless English™ at least six months. During this time, be fully committed to the
system. At the end of six months, notice the improvement and compare it to the old
methods. You will be pleasantly surprised.
You will, finally, develop the ability to speak effortless English. The words will
come out automatically. The grammar will improve automatically. The feelings of
confidence will appear automatically.
Welcome to Effortless English™.
In the final section of this book I will discuss advanced topics and common
questions. However, you should not focus on these advanced methods until you have
spent at least six months using the core Effortless English™ system as described.
Most learners will only need this core system.
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