Effortless English: Learn To Speak English Like a native

 
ACTION VOCABULARY
So many students waste time trying to memorize English vocabulary. They
study long lists of words. They repeat the lists many times, trying to memorize
the English words and their translated meanings. Unfortunately, research shows
that 80% of vocabulary learned in this way is forgotten in less than a year. That’s
a lot of wasted time and effort.
There’s another problem with this vocabulary learning method — it’s boring,
and it kills long-term motivation. As a student, you must be very careful— killing
your motivation is the worst thing you can do. Learning English is a marathon,
it’s a long run. It requires high levels of motivation that are sustained for many
years.
Using boring vocabulary learning methods, therefore, is doubly bad: it is
inefficient and it weakens motivation.
There is a better way, as participants in my breakthrough seminars have found
out. It is possible to learn new vocabulary in a way that is far more powerful
AND is a lot of fun. When you learn in this way, studies show that you can
remember 80% one year later! That’s powerful.
The key to deep, powerful, long term vocabulary learning is movement. When
you combine strong physical movements with understandable new vocabulary,
you create deep connections in your brain and body. These connections are long
term. They last! The key is to use a movement that reminds you of the meaning of
the vocabulary.
For example, imagine you want to learn the phrase “to proclaim.” First you
would find the meaning of the word, which is “to say or announce publicly, often
in a loud way.” After you know the meaning, you create an action that reminds
you of it. You might put your hands to your mouth and pretend you are yelling
loudly (“to say publicly and loudly”). Finally, you would shout the phrase “to
proclaim” as you did the gesture at the same time.
The more loudly you shout and the more energetically you do the gesture, the

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stronger the connection you make in your brain. By simply shouting the phrase
and doing the movement vigorously several times, you will create a stronger and
deeper memory of the meaning.
In a recent seminar I did in Vietnam, I taught a number of new words using this
action vocabulary method. The students shouted the new words with me, while
simultaneously using the strong actions I showed them. Each action was
connected to the meaning of the new word or phrase. By the end of the lesson,
they knew those words completely, never to forget them.
But that’s not all. Since Effortless English™ is a deep learning system, I
repeated those new words again — this time in a story lesson. Each time I used
one of the new words in the story, I asked the students to use the same strong
gesture we had practiced. Through the Mini-Story lesson, the students got even
more repetition of the vocabulary, with emotion and strong actions.
Finally, I gave the students homework: download the audio of the same Mini-
Story lesson, and listen to that audio every day for one week. If students do this,
they will learn these new vocabulary words very deeply, and will remember them
forever. That is the power of the Effortless English™ system, and that is the
power of using physical movement while learning!