AJ Hoge challenges you to listen to one hour of natural English daily for 30 days without reading, memorizing vocabulary, or studying grammar. Stop analyzing grammar mid-conversation, accept your mistakes without correcting yourself, and let phrases sink in naturally instead.
Number one, for 30 days, listen to natural real English one hour a day. So here's a 30 day commitment. Do this 30 days. Just try it for 30 days. If you know, if you don't, you don't quite believe me. You're not quite sure. Try it for 30 days, see what happens. Okay, here's your challenge. Number one. For 30 days, listen to Natural Real English one hour a day. Don't focus on reading. Don't worry about speaking. And please, please, please don't memorize vocab. And do not study grammar rules. Try to forget them. Number two, you only focus on those natural phrases. As you're listening to things, you might notice little phrases here that might pop out as interesting or useful. You can write those down if you want to, or just notice them and keep listening. Number three, the big ones. Stop analyzing grammar. This is might be a tough habit to break. You might be in such a habit that you're so used to analyzing and thinking about grammar rules, you might need 30 days or more to break this habit. But do your best. When you notice you're starting to think about grammar, just turn it off and relax. And number four, Accept mistakes. When you make a mistake speaking, just don't, don't even try to correct it. Don't stop yourself and say no, no. And try to go back and change the verb. Just leave it. Let it go. We all make mistakes, okay? You know, according to the AI bots, native speakers are constantly making mistakes all the time. Who cares, okay? Focus on communication. Commit to this 30 day challenge of just doing these things, listening an hour a day. Focus only on phrases. No rules. Stop analyzing. Keep. Break that mental habit and accept your mistakes. Relax and just let those mistakes come out. Don't worry about them at all. Okay? So the truth about grammar. Grammar destroys your English speaking grammar. Study grammar. Memorization creates hesitation, right? That sound when you're speaking creates anxiety, nervousness, right? That tension when you start to speak, it's terrible.
