“The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.” – Jonathan Culver

You can learn English much faster than you probably realise. 

This blog is designed to give you the most powerful tips, tools and techniques available in the world today. So that you can learn to speak English much faster, with confidence. And most importantly, so that you really start to enjoy speaking English too! Just like a child feels incredible joy in simply expressing themselves when they first learn to speak.

In this way you will find great natural pleasure in learning English, and progressing really fast. We live in a wonderful time for any English-learner.

Over the last 30 years so many incredible advances have been made in cognitive neuroscience, memory techniques, and understanding of the human brain and how we learn languages. People all around the world are having the wonderful pleasure of learning to speak English fluently in months instead of years.

Just imagine how good that will feel when this is you!

Unfortunately 95% of students, English schools, English teachers and creators of English courses don’t understand these simple, powerful techniques. They still teach English in the same way as it was taught 100 years ago. Turning something that should be pleasurable into a long, boring, difficult, even painful journey.

I know. I have seen it.

Over many years teaching English in the UK and 8 different countries I’ve seen so many students suffer for no reason. Wasting money and time following bad advice and bad lessons with bad teachers. Not progressing and therefore feeling bad about themselves. Losing motivation.
It’s so sad to see, because it can be so much easier. I’ve created this blog to try and make a difference. Because I have studied thousands of students who learn slowly, and thousands of students who learn quickly. And I’ve seen what works and what doesn’t.

I also studied and tested the techniques of some of the best language learners and language teachers in the world. Language masters like Michel Thomas, Benny Lewis, Daniel Tammat, Tim Ferriss, Dominic O’Brien and many more. All their most important and powerful lessons are explained here in this blog, in simple, easy to follow steps.

If you begin to follow the tips and techniques laid out here, you will certainly increase how quickly you learn English – by 300% and more!

Just a note, the focus of this blog is on how to speak English fluently as quickly as possible. I believe this is what most students of English desire, rather than memorizing grammar and spelling. If you wish to learn how to read and write English, or how to pass grammar tests, then first use these
techniques so you are speaking English confidently and fluently. Then learn all the rest later.

How to Think Like an English Language Master?

Your goal is to be able to comfortably talk English. And to get there you have to enjoy the journey. People who master languages teach themselves to enjoy the process. The truth is learning English and simply making progress is a pleasure in itself. This means making progress in ways that mean something – forming sentences and expressing yourself and being understood is very pleasurable and satisfying. You see and feel inside that you are making progress.

Memorizing long boring lists of verb conjugations isn’t fun or satisfying. Perhaps in the past a bad teacher or a boring textblog or too much pressure made learning English feel unpleasant for you. If you find yourself getting stressed or unhappy when you have to study, now is the time to turn that around. And the key to that is by starting afresh. Try to read this blog with an open mind. Put the strategies into practice. Notice how quickly you begin to improve, and feel good about it. The next chapter teaches exactly how to do this.

Relaxing and having fun improves your memory

Remember this. If you have been learning the wrong way, as most English students have been, you won’t be feeling very good about learning at all. And so you won’t be remembering things well either. The key to changing this is to become intelligent about the way you learn. Think about any young person who has a hobby. What is one of your great lifetime hobbies?

If it’s a sport like football, you will find it easy to remember hundreds of players and hundreds of facts about all the teams, and the league tables, and who scored in specific matches, even years ago. If your hobby is a card game you will know hundreds or thousands of cards and all the possible
combinations and strategies. If you love celebrity gossip, you will effortlessly know hundreds of names and facts about all the famous people in your country.

You don’t try hard to remember these things, your brain just memorizes them, because you enjoy it and feel good about it. You never sit down and say ‘ok, let’s see if I can remember those names. Or these facts.’ You don’t ever test yourself. You just remember them easily. You remember these facts so easily because you love it, you are passionate about it, you talk about it with your friends. It is fun. So these facts just stay in your mind, you don’t have to spend hours trying to remember them. Your mind just does the work for you.

When you begin to turn English into a simple pleasure, by following the strategies in this blog, you will tap into this amazing power your brain has to easily remember things. English will become easier for you, and you will simply double your learning speed.

Focus on creating fun

A good first step is whenever you sit down to ‘do’ English, always get nice and comfortable. Sit in a comfortable room, in your favorite chair. Get a nice cup of tea ready. Take a deep breath and relax. Don’t think about results and work. Try to get into the same feeling you would have if you were
about to sit down to a challenging but fun game with friends. Something you have to apply your brain to, but something that is fun, like a not-too-challenging puzzle. When you prepare to play a game, you relax and you fully engage your mind. You know the game is going to be a bit difficult at times, in fact you want it to be or it would be no fun at all. And the important thing to making English fun is bringing all your attention to the task, as you would with a game. While at the same time remaining relaxed.

You’ve decided to engage in this activity, this ‘English Game’ anyway, so why not bring all your attention and effort to it. Treat it like a slightly challenging game. Forming every sentence is a delicious little puzzle to solve. Understanding that every nuance of a sentence you hear is a clue.
Create an environment to focus when you sit down to English, cut out distractions. Find a conversation partner with the same attitude towards the language. We’ll talk about how to do this in a minute.

Break English down into bite-sized chunks

Learning English might seem like a huge task. A little scary. Too big to seem easy. But it’s actually not so big at all. Like any seemingly large task, the best way to start feeling really confident about it is to break it down into smaller pieces. Then each piece feels easier, and it is. When you master each chunk, and can suddenly make sentences and really start speaking, you feel strong and confident. You realize the truth – that you CAN speak English. And because of this you start to enjoy it more and more. You can start to break English down in many ways. You’ll learn how to do it in this blog. Like learning the most common words first, learning which words are your friends, learning the most common sentence structures. Always remember that native English speakers only use 1,000 to 1,500 words in normal day-to-day communication. In fact, many people use less than 1,000 words! And they can express everything they want to. You can say almost everything you need to say in English with just 700 words. And you
can just about say over 70% of all communication in English with just 300 words. Now, don’t you think it’s a good idea to learn what those 300 words are and learn them first?

On top of this, you’ll soon be using memory tricks to remember words faster, and various other techniques to break English down and make it possible to master in small, simple steps.

Don’t avoid mistakes. Try to make mistakes

Most learners worry about making mistakes. Actually, English is all about communicating, and as you will learn it’s easy to start doing this from day one, and then every day, with great joy. Communicating can happen perfectly well even if you make mistakes. So start making mistakes! Enjoy making them, laugh when you do. Just keep on communicating, and mistakes will naturally disappear over time. Don’t fear mistakes in English, embrace them. They are your friends.

Other people are always impressed by English learners who really speak with joy and confidence, even if they make lots of mistakes. Don’t you agree?

Adults are better at learning languages than kids

A study at the University of Haifa found that adults are in fact better at grasping and using new grammar structures in English than children. Adults are in fact better at learning languages than kids! This is the opposite of what most adults believe. And it should be encouraging to remember this. What really makes the difference is that very often kids have to learn languages. They are simply forced to so that they can communicate. They have
real motivation.

Also, children enjoy the process of learning. They have not yet been taught by bad schooling that it’s wrong to make mistakes. So kids don’t feel bad if they make mistakes, they know the truth that it’s normal and not a big deal to make lots of mistakes. In fact, it’s fun to make mistakes and then to
progress past them. It’s all part of the learning process, and kinds know it instinctively. On top of this, children learn to speak languages in the real world. They want to express something to their mother or father or friend. They want to make a sentence right there so that someone can understand them! They don’t sit in a strange classroom in rows, repeating lists of vocabulary or grammatical terms. English is living and breathing for them.

They learn the language purely because they want to communicate. Every new thing they learn they use in a sentence and in a real conversation immediately. And this is exactly how you should learn English from now on. And one last thing to consider. Children actually take a huge amount of time to learn any language. Think about it, they practice pretty much full time from when they are about one-and-a-half years old until they are seven years old, and older. They practice and learn several hours every day, for years.

Adults, on the other hand, often spend a few hours a week practicing a language. We tend to have less time to dedicate to the task. So, hour for hour, adults put less time in, but can progress faster because as adults we can study the language with more intelligent strategy. The techniques and strategy in this blog aim to help you turn into a refined English-learning machine. Think carefully about these mindsets around learning English. How do you see yourself when you learn? One huge key to adopting these ways of thinking is in the next chapter.

Key Tips

1. Focus on making English learning fun

2. Treat English like a game – fully focus when you sit down to play, and relax at the
same time

3. Use the learning strategies here to freshen up your English-learning experience and
make it more fun

4. Don't avoid mistakes, try to make more mistakes – fail your way to fluency

5. Remember, adults learn languages faster than children

6. Start by controlling the way you think and feel about English – the roots of your learning journey

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