script a.j hoge rule 2 excellent english speaking

Hi, this is AJ, and it’s
time for secret or rule
number two for Ex-
cellent English Speaking.
Now, this one, I think, is
going to be your favorite. I think
this is going to be your favorite
secret because most of our sub-
scribers, most of our students,
tell us this is the one they love;
that they loved hearing this.
That it set them free. 
So, what is it? What is secret
number two? Secret number two
is this. Never again study gram-
mar rules. Woohoo! You’re fin-
ished with grammar. No more.
Never study grammar rules.
Now, I know this may be a big
surprise. This is a surprise for a
lot of people, for a lot of our
students, a lot of our sub-
scribers, for a lot of our mem-
bers. When they first hear this
rule they’re shocked. They’re
surprised and they think is that
true? CouldMaybe you’re feeling a little un-
sure about this particular secret
or rule. Well that’s natural.
The reason it seems shocking
or surprising is that all your life
that you have been learning
English, your teachers have
been telling you study grammar,
study grammar, study grammar.
Grammar is the secret. Gram-
mar is the secret to English,
grammar, grammar, grammar,
grammar.
I don’t know exactly when you
started studying English, maybe
in elementary school when you
were young, maybe in middle
school or high school when you
were a bit older, maybe later
than that, but I’m sure that in
school your teachers told you
grammar was the key. Grammar
was super important.
You had to study all these
grammar rules. You had to know
the past and the past perfect
and the present and the present
perfect and the present progres-
sive and the future perfect pro-
gressive. You had to know what
all of that stuff was and how to
do all of the changes to the
verbs and you had to know pos-
sessives, of course, and then
there were all the prepositions;
endless grammar.
You had to memorize all of
these rules and probably most
of your English classes were fo-
cused on these grammar rules
and then taking tests about
these grammar rules. It doesn’t
work. Stop doing it. You’re fin-
ished. In our system, no gram-
mar rule study.
Now, some people when they
hear this they think no, no, no,
that’s not right. They don’t be-
lieve me. So, I have only one
question for you. You have been
learning these grammar rules
for years and years and years.
My simple question is did it work? Can you now speak Eng-
lish easily, quickly and automat-
ically? Is your grammar correct
when you speak or do you still
make mistakes with simple
grammar like the past tense?
I mean if you’re a
fantastic, amazing
English speaker
probably you don’t
need to watch this
video, but I’m guess-
ing if you’re watch-
ing this it means
you’re not a great
English speaker. You
do not have excel-
lent English speak-
ing and, yet, you
know so much grammar.
I guarantee you know more
grammar than I do, because I
don’t think about this stuff
when I speak English. I just use
it automatically. I don’t need to
think about the past tense or
the present perfect or anything
else. It just comes out correctly,
usually. I make mistakes some-
times like everyone, but nor-
mally it just comes out. When
you speak your own language
do you think about grammar
rules? Of course, not.
See, here’s the problem with
grammar rules. They cause you
to think about English, so you
are always analyzing it. Mean-
ing, you’re always thinking
about it all the time. Now, for writing that’s okay. I mean even
when I write in English some-
times I might stop for a minute
and think oh, wait, what’s the
grammar for that? Not usually,
but sometimes maybe.
Why can I do that?
Why can you do
that? Well, because
of course with writ-
ing you have plenty
of time. There’s no
pressure. There’s no
speed. You can write
very, very, very slowly
and then you can go
and you can write
the same thing again
and then you can
show it to somebody and say is
this correct? They can say oh,
no, change this. Then you can
write it again.
All of that is possible with
writing. So if you want to study
grammar rules for writing okay,
but here’s the problem. For
speaking there is no time. If I
walk up to you and I say hey,
how’s it going? What did you do
yesterday? You have no time to
be thinking about grammar.
Which tense is it and what do I
say. There’s no time. You need
to answer immediately, in-
stantly, automatically.
When you speak that gram-
mar needs to be correct auto-
matically. You can’t be thinking
about it. You can’t be trying to remember some grammar rule.
No. If you are thinking about
grammar rules it causes you to
speak slowly. It causes you to
hesitate and stop a lot. And
when you’re listening to people,
if you’re thinking about gram-
mar you’re not really hearing
them very well. It causes huge
problems. You have to stop
studying grammar. No more.
See, native speakers, meaning
people who grow up learning
English, we never study gram-
mar. I never studied grammar
until high school. When I was
about 16 years old we started
studying some grammar, but it
was just for writing. It was just
for academic writing, for writ-
ing for school kind of papers.
That’s all. But by then I already
used correct spoken grammar
perfectly. So, how did I learn
grammar as a child? How does
it happen? Every American
child learns to speak with good
English grammar, most at least
do. How do they do it if they
don’t study grammar rules?
Well, we talked about it in se-
cret number one. First of all,
they’re learning it from phrases,
natural phrases. And there are a
few other ways that they’re
learning grammar, which we’ll
talk about in some of our future
secrets or rules. The point is
they are not studying grammar
rules. They do not get them selves confused with grammar
rules. If you’re thinking about
grammar rules you’re going to
be confused. It’s going to hurt
your speaking ability, so you
must stop now and never do it
again.
In fact, here’s what I want you
to do. Go grab all your English
grammar books and put them
on top of each other and then
burn them. Get a fire, put some
gasoline on there and let the fire
come up and, if you want, you
can dance around it. Woohoo!
Celebrate and smile and jump
around, because you are free of
English grammar. No more.
With our system you will
never study another grammar
rule again, I promise you. That
should make you happy, be-
cause I know that grammar
rules cause a lot of pain, a lot of
boredom, a lot of frustration.
Nobody likes them, so just for-
get it.
So, this is good news. Today,
secret number two, rule num-
ber two, is great news. Throw
away your grammar books, burn
them. Have a party, celebrate,
because you will never study
grammar rules again and that is
secret number two.
I’ll see you again tomorrow
for a very important secret
that’s also very simple, but very
powerful.
Have a great day, bye-bye.
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