hi this is aj and it's time for secret or rule number two for excellent 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 subscribers 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 grammar rules you're finished 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 subscribers a lot of our members when they first hear this rule they're they're shocked they're surprised and they think well is is that true could that be possible maybe you're feeling a little unsure 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
grammar 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're 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 the past and the past perfect and the present and the present perfect and the present progressive and the future perfect progressive 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 possessives 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 focused on these grammar rules and then taking tests about these grammar rules it doesn't work stop doing it you're finished in our system no grammar rule study now some people when they hear this they think no no that's not right and they don't they don't believe 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 english easily quickly and automatically is your grammar correct when you speak or do you still make mistakes with simple grammar like the 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 guessing if you're watching this it means you're not a great english speaker you do not have excellent english speaking 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 sometimes like everyone but normally 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 meaning you're
always thinking about it all the time now for writing that's okay i mean even when i write in english sometimes i might stop for a minute and think oh wait 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 writing you have plenty of time there's no 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 and they can say oh no you know change this and then you can write it again all of that is possible with writing so you know if you want to study grammar rules for writing you know 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 instantly automatically and
when you speak that grammar needs to be correct automatically 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 causes you to hesitate and stop a lot and when you're listening to people if you're thinking about grammar 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 grammar 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 writing 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 secret number one first of all they're learning it from phrases natural phrases and there's
a few other ways that they're learning grammar which we'll talk about in some of our future secrets or rules but the point is they are not studying grammar rules they do not get themselves 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 grammar books english grammar books and put them on top of each other and then burn them get a fire
put some gasoline on there and whoa and let the fire come up and if you want you can dance around it woohoo and 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 and that should make you happy because i know that grammar rules cause a lot of pain a lot of boredom a lot of frustration nobody likes them so just forget it so this is good news today secret number two rule number 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 it's also very simple but very powerful have a great day bye
