Hi there. I hope you are all having a great weekend.

This is going to be a brief and simple post today – just to get you thinking. Do you have a plan of how you are going to reach your spoken English goals or are you just “aimlessly” reading different textbooks, continuing to invest in English courses that don’t have an impact or spending hour after hour browsing the web looking for “useful” spoken English content.

Remember that without a plan, you are planning to fail.

Anyway here are 5 simple steps that the Inspired English system follows to help you with your development. Stick to these rules and you will be a step ahead than most other spoken English students:

1. Learn English phrases for relevant situations – listen and practice.
2. Use the Quickfire technique (listening to short conversations and then answering questions) to help you think in English.
3. Practice listening and speaking English every day.
4. Watch repeatedly small sections of English movies, listen to English radio and other poscasts.
5. Study the DNA of English using word association with symbols and pictures.

Simple eh! More soon, Poppy

Hi!

Okay, let’s be honest here. What’s the one thing about the English language that really stops you progressing to where we want to get to?

Easy question – GRAMMAR of course.

Just the mention of the word “grammar” can cause many students pain. There is a widely held belief that before you can start to speak a language fluently, you must spend days, weeks and months learning the fundamentals of English grammar.

This by itself can create limiting beliefs –

“I can’t learn English until I learn the grammar”
“I will never speak English because the grammar is just so difficult”
“It is going to take me forever before I can speak English confidently”

This reason by itself can stop many aspiring English students in their tracks. The initial desire and motivation to learn English is lost. After a few false starts, the student gives up. Okay, I was there! I was in the very same position. You wouldn’t believe the number of English grammar books and courses I have been on, trying and overcome this limiting belief.

And then one day it dawned on me. At the time it was a revelation. It created a huge shift in my thinking. To explain, let me ask you this simple question?

“Do you ever see a small child reading a grammar book?”

The answer is clearly no! So how do we learn a language as a child? It’s through listening, learning phrases, understanding, speaking and continual practice. Sounds simple right? Well clearly the execution is not quite as easy as it sounds, but the principle certainly is.

So how do I apply this to my spoken English development? There are various learning techniques that are available that avoid you going through the torture of learning the fundamentals of grammar. I really believe this. More on this in later posts.

There is nothing more frustrating than seeing potentially great English speakers giving up because of grammar. Continue to follow these updates and I will share with you some of the readily available techniques to speak English with confidence and have fun along the way.

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Take care, Poppy

I have to hand it to A.J. Hage and his team at Effortless English. Today they launched their Power English course and with the space of one hour had sold 63% of the 15,000 copies that were available. This is an amazing achievement. I am sure that by the close of the day all 15,000 copies had been sold – all this for an amazing price of $127 (you do the maths!)

It has been quite a journey for A.J. over the past few weeks with his web-site crashing on numerous occasions due to the huge volume of traffic. In typical A.J. style, however, he remained remarkably positive throughout to overcome the issues he was facing. Apparently he has close to 1,000,000 subscribers on his list and only 15,000 copies of Power English available.

I have not personally reviewed Power English, neither do I have a copy (but am keen to get my hands on it), but am 100% sure that this product will combine the elements of Effortless English, motivation and A.J’s infectious teaching style to deliver an outstanding product.

Great effort A.J. – you have achieved an amazing business model with your spoken English training and are providing real value to thousands and thousands of people across the world. The team here at InspiredEnglish are keen to learn from your success.

And if you haven’t already,why not check out the Effortless English web-site.

To your success, Poppy

Hi – This is the first post on Spoken English Online! Yes, this new blog is linked to the Inspired English spoken English web-site, but my role here is to develop an open discussion about the world of spoken English. I plan to share with you my thoughts, advice and ideas on how to learn spoken English quickly and with confidence. I will also provide you with links and articles to other sites in the on-line world that I hope you will find of interest. As you will see from some of the future posts, your personal development is key to your success in learning spoken English – make sure that you use these articles to your advantage.

Until then, wishing you every success, Poppy.