hi it's aj and welcome to rule number six rule number six is simple but very very important and very very effective in fact you'll have noticed that all of these rules are simple but they're very powerful in fact individually they're very powerful just using one of these rules can improve your english speaking a lot but the real power comes when you use all seven of them to totally change the way you learn english so what's number six number six is this only use authentic real english materials what does that mean well put another way don't
use textbooks i talked about this already when i was talking about throwing away your grammar books but really you need to throw away all of your textbooks all of them get rid of them they're horrible they're boring you know they're boring they're useless you know get rid of all the grammar textbooks all those with the little fake you know conversations in them and all the nice little graphics and pictures they put in to try to make them seem interesting when in fact it's really boring because what do those textbooks really have they got a bunch
of fake conversations with boring actors reading them and then they have a bunch of little boring activities and drills that are supposed to help you improve your communication it's all bad it's not going to help you what you need to do instead is use only authentic real english materials what does that mean when i say real here's what i mean i mean the best materials are the ones that are for native speakers in other words books and audios and videos that are made for canadians americans british people australians they're not made for foreigners learning english
they're made for the people actually living in those countries that's a real authentic material book cd video whatever you can also use materials that are very very very very similar or very very close to real materials for example there are some really good um books out there story books that they're they're about real stories you know written about you know like little novels little short novels but they're using a little bit simpler english so that people who are learning english can understand them a little more easily but it's not a textbook it's a real story
some of them have audio so it's like a real audio book real interesting information it's not you know a bunch of rules and stupid activities and fake conversations so those kind of materials are also quite good that's what i mean when i say real materials real let me give you an example of this let's say you wanted to improve your reading your english reading skills now there's two ways to do this the old traditional boring way which doesn't work is to go out and get a bunch of you know fake tests for example a bunch
of toefl tests and read all those extremely boring essays in the the toefl book and then take a bunch of tests with it or you could get some reading comprehension textbook once again reading a bunch of boring stories written by boring people and then take a bunch of boring tests or answer a bunch of boring questions at the end of it it's not very fun and it's not effective you could also go out and buy some vocabulary books and try to memorize all this new vocabulary these huge lists none of that works very well i
mean you can improve that way but it's very slow and it's painfully boring a much better way and the research shows a much more effective and powerful way is to read easy stories to read easy novels now what does easy mean well it depends on your level for some people easy means children's books right books that are made for american children or british children or australian children whatever but they're not made for foreign students they're made for the local people but they're in an easier level for because they're for children for you for a lot
of people watching this video probably i would say easy novels for young adults for you know older elementary school children or middle school children or high school level depends on what your level is so when i say easy i usually mean you should understand about 95 percent of the words without a dictionary so then you can easily guess the other five percent i've mentioned this before so if you wanted to improve your reading what you would do is you'd go out and you would read as many of these novels as you could you could read
magazines easy magazines for uh for kids or for young adults and read lots of them you could read a lot of novels you know there's lots of those novels for for adolescents adventure novels romance novels and you know they're for young adults so they might be a little bit like not really for total adults but it's much more interesting and fun to read those than textbooks i promise you and you would read lots and lots and lots of them and as you did that your vocabulary would increase your reading comprehension would increase very quickly your
reading speed in english would improve very very quickly and soon in just a few months those kinds of books would be super easy for you and then you could start reading more difficult material maybe you would start reading you know high school level novels and stories and you'd read lots and lots and lots of those if you like romance you'd read romance books if you liked adventure you'd read adventure if you liked science fiction or fantasy you'd read those kind of books if you write like non-fiction well you'd read a lot of non-fiction but it'd
be real books and then eventually those would feel easy after it happens quite quickly in fact if you if you read every single day like that you improve quickly and then you could go up to adult level novels you could read books by you know famous best-selling authors john grisham stephen king again depends on your interest always choose things that you personally like and enjoy and by reading lots and lots and lots of those books reading lots and lots and lots of stephen king king books for example or john grisham books your reading would improve
so fast so powerfully and so much faster so much more powerfully than someone who's trying to learn from textbooks and reading comprehension books and vocabulary books this is a much faster more powerful way to improve your reading now of course in these rules we're talking about speaking and listening so how do you do that well it's the same idea it's exactly the same idea instead of using books you would use audios so you want to listen to as many easy real audios as you can every day you want to listen to audio stories you want
to listen to easy audio books you want to listen to podcasts audio podcasts audio radio shows easy audios on topics that you enjoy that are entertaining it's real stuff and you would follow that same thing for a while those really easy ones would maybe they would feel a little difficult to you but after listening to them again and again and again they quickly become easy then you go up to a higher level and then you do it again again and again and again and soon you're listening to real audios real audiobooks for adults for american
adults for british adults or real radio shows for americans or canadians or british or australian you can mix all of those it doesn't matter that is how you learn real english because see in the textbooks it's not real english it's very unnatural those fake conversations are unnatural and we don't really speak that way right what's lesson one in most textbooks hello hi how are you i'm fine and you right and you have these actors reading that conversation in a very unnatural way the pronunciation is very strange because nobody really talks like that and in fact
in the united states when you meet someone the first time you will almost never hear that kind of conversation people really say things like how you doing what's up nice to meet you you don't find those little phrases in most textbooks yet those are the most common real ways of greeting people that's why you know you learn all this textbook english and then you go to a country and you can't understand anybody even though you know you know 10 000 words or 20 000 words or something and you know all this grammar but you can't
understand the real people having real conversations why because you learned textbook english you did not learn from real english materials authentic english materials so if you want to be able to function with real english especially if you want to talk to people who are from canada or the united states or the uk or australia then you must learn from real materials very important and you know once again this is how children learn right children do not study textbooks to learn their own language right little two-year-olds and one-year-olds and three-year-olds are not studying english textbooks in
the united states they're learning from stories and real conversations and real communication about real ideas or real emotions that's how they learn and that's why they speak so naturally and effortlessly if you bring a foreign child child from another country to the united states and you put them with a bunch of children american children who speak english all the time that child will learn english perfectly with no textbooks with no grammar study how do they do it well they do it with real stories real playing playing with the other children real communication real english so
what you need to do is number one is go out and get real materials and of course our lessons that's what i do i tell you stories and i give you a lot of teachings my lessons are not focused on the little parts of english because i don't want you to think about that at all i want you to think about interesting ideas i want you to feel entertained i want you to focus on the emotions and the ideas of what i'm saying that what's inside the audio so most of my main lessons are on
personal growth topics about you know being more healthy having more energy being more successful in all parts of your life i want you focused on those ideas you're you're learning english at the same time but i don't want you thinking about every little word i don't want you thinking about the grammar rules i want you focusing on the ideas of powerful ideas interesting ideas as you focus on those real ideas real emotions you will learn the english automatically it's the same with the stories i make them funny and crazy so that you remember them so
that you are entertained you're focused on the emotions and the crazy ideas in the story and the grammar and the vocabulary and the pronunciation just happen automatically you're focused on being entertained you're focused on getting interesting information useful information that's what makes real material so powerful and so much better than some terrible boring useless textbook which will not teach you real english anyway so use real materials in order to improve much much much faster to understand real speech so that when you go to a country or you talk to someone from an english-speaking country you
will actually understand them you'll understand the the real english they use in conversations not some textbook that nobody uses and i think another big reason to use real materials is you'll enjoy it more it's just more fun it's more interesting instead of learning a bunch of boring junk in a textbook that's that's just useless and not real you get to learn real interesting ideas or you get to be entertained you get to have interesting emotions it's real stuff it's the kind of things you might enjoy in your own language so important so powerful so rule
number six is this use only authentic real english materials and that's rule six tomorrow's our last rule so look for the next email tomorrow last rule see you again bye bye you
