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COMING SOON

Speak
without
thinking

Grammar tests do not teach anyone to talk.

Students who pass every exam still freeze in a real conversation. The studying was never the problem. The method was.

Seven rules, one a day. Follow them and English arrives the way your first language did — by hearing it, not by studying it.

No grammar books/ No word lists/ No textbook tapes/ No memorising/ Listen 1–3 hours a day/ Phrases, not words/ Answer, do not repeat/ No grammar books/ No word lists/ No textbook tapes/ No memorising/ Listen 1–3 hours a day/ Phrases, not words/ Answer, do not repeat/
01

Study phrases, never single words

Native speakers learn groups of words that travel together. Write down the whole phrase, review the whole phrase. Grammar comes along with it.

02

Do not study grammar rules

Rules teach you to think about English. You want to speak without thinking, so put the grammar books away.

03

Listen first, every single day

Learn with your ears, not your eyes. Understandable English, one to three hours a day. This is the rule most schools ignore.

04

Learn slowly and deeply

Knowing a definition is not enough. Repeat the same lesson many times, until the words arrive on their own.

05

Use point-of-view mini-stories

One story told in past, present, perfect and future. You stop reciting tenses and start feeling them.

06

Use real English only

Films, TV, podcasts, audio books, talk radio. Textbook tapes sound nothing like the person standing in front of you.

07

Listen and answer, not repeat

Repeating copies the speaker. Answering a question makes you think in English, and thinking in English is what makes speaking fast.