So many students waste time trying to memorize English vocabulary. They study long lists of vocabulary. They repeat the lists many times, trying to memorize the English words and their translated meanings.
Research shows that 80% of vocabulary learned in this way is forgotten in less than a year. That’s a lot of wasted time and effort.
There’s another problem with this vocabulary learning method– it’s boring and therefore it kills long term motivation. Students must be very careful– killing your motivation is the worst thing you can do. Learning English is a marathon, it’s a long run. It requires high levels of motivation that are sustained for many years.
Using boring vocabulary learning methods, therefore, is doubly bad: it is inefficient and it weakens motivation.
There is a better way– as participants in my recent Breakthrough Seminar in Bangkok learned. It is possible to learn new vocabulary in a way that is far more powerful AND is a lot of fun. When you learn in this way, you will remember 80% one year later! That’s powerful.
The key to deep, powerful, long term vocabulary learning is movement. When we combine strong physical movements with understandable new vocabulary, we create deep connections in our brains and bodies. These connections are long term. They last!
In the seminar, I taught a number of new words using strong actions. The students shouted the new words with me, while simultaneously using the strong actions I showed them. By the end of the lesson, they knew those words well.
But that’s not all. Since Effortless English is a deep learning system, I repeated those new words again– this time in a Mini-Story. Each time I used one of the new words in the story, I used the same physical movement we had been practicing. Through the Mini-Story, the students got even more repetition of the vocabulary, with emotion and strong movements.
Finally, I gave the students homework: download the audio of the same Mini-Story lesson, and listen to that audio every day for one week.
If the students do this, they will learn these new vocabulary words very deeply, and will remember them forever. That is the power of the Effortless English system, and that is the power of using physical movement while learning!
January 31st, 2009 at 4:33 am
great A.J
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
hi my teacher iam very glad to learn english this website although iam beginner but iwill hope to learn english grammar very quickly thank my teacher
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
today iam very interest to write aletter to my teacher itry many times to learn english grammar but know i saw the best choise and that is this website i thankful my dear teacher
February 6th, 2009 at 2:52 am
THANKS
February 17th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Effortless english is great.
Listen a lot.
Read a lot ( easy, understandable and fun material).
It really works!!!
Cheers.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Thanks teacher. I have learned much with all methods that you send, because with them, I can remember many stories when I was studied. Thanks a lot.
I hope to know you soon.
February 17th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
A friend of mine in Italy is using your products with great results. Keep up the good work!
February 17th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Thank’s AJ great comment and very useful, I really Improve my english every time with all your lessons, your system keepme really motivated!!!
February 17th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for all. I will always listen to u !!
February 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Hi A.J.
I come from Quebec in Canada, the french side. I started your English course 11 months ago. At the beginning I was skeptical, now I’m able to work in English. I’m a runner and every morning I listen the course on my ipod.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:30 am
First of all, I want to say thanks to Mr A.J Hoge who always follows closely during my English Study. He sent emails of the best English methods to me weekly, monthly and I see they are very useful!
I have collected and saved them to a file document! They are the best materials I have!
Thanks for your enthusiasm and creation!
Hope to get more good learning Enlgish methods from you!
Thank you very much!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:33 am
A.J. Thank you very much I like to learn English with you. Since i study english with you my english is get better and i love to learn English.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:01 am
I have used yr Effortless English program teaching my office staffs in Thailand. We are wishing that by 6 months time we will be able to commuicate more in English language. Thanks
February 18th, 2009 at 8:02 am
U are a great teacher
thank u
gahalla
February 18th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I’ll be in S. Francisco to the American Academy of Dermatology in March from 6° to 11°, could be nice to meet you.
Dario fai
February 18th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Hi A.J, how are you?
I’m a brazilian guy that started study english about one year ago, using just your method and nothing more. I’m really glad because I can comunicate with other people outside my country, just like you, in your native language.
I’m really happy, just because the words come out to my mouth and my fingers to write it. And I think that is your fault.
I’ve listening a lot of english in so many diferent ways, including watching american series, movies, musics and so on. It has helped me a lot to improve in a great scale my vocabulary and my speak.
I think that now is the time to learn grammar. I will make a course of english now just for learning english grammar roules.
So, I would like to thank you, and say to continue your great work.
Best regards,
February 18th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
thanks for providing us. so much material in your site.. i highly appreciate your work and effort…..thanks for doing so much for us…..
February 18th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Thank you very much, because I´m learning very much.
February 18th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
thanks for all your advices, they’ve been really useful for me as a teacher, they work indeed, honest god bless you
February 19th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Your webclasses are very good, they are helping me and so I would like to help you prepering lessons for people that speak languages from latin.
It would be great.
February 19th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Hello my dearest teacher!
I dont have the words to you to show my love and appreceit you, belive me dear, I can tell you it realy improve my language and it gave me dare to talk with other people in inglish, i am in afghanistan and i am following your effortless english program, thanks
February 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
hi mr. A.J.Hoge
realy you are expert iam alwayes read your comment
the waye to learn english this is good to me as you know my original language is arabic so i need more and more coment to try to improve my english language thank you very much
my best regard
February 20th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Hi my teacher ,you are great in english teaching. your advice is truth. English is not difficult to speking and writting if we follows your commaned. thanks a lot . I am very hopeful to you , I will get your continue help for english .
thanks
February 26th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Hi teacher ,just wanna let you know that you doing a great job ,I can’t help wondering why many schools are still using the same old methods lol .
March 1st, 2009 at 7:47 am
hi,teacher A.J
Thank you so much for your lesson. It can help me improve my skill better. big thanks,,take care
March 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Thank you for giving me a very good advise. Hopefully, I can be a very good in speaking & writing in English. I have try it before and it’s amazing..now I’m continue to implement this technique to improve my English.
March 7th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
First of all, I want to say thanks to Mr A.J Hoge who is a great teacher .
Thank you very much!
March 8th, 2009 at 12:45 am
Dear Teacher,
Greetings from me. I am very thankfull to you. I am always using your method and I have already improve my fluency to speak English. I have told about your method to some of my friends.
Thanks.
March 11th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Thank you so much for this program, it is really helping me a lot, I’m glad very muc I purchased it and I like the way and the method you are using because it is very understandable and very usefull.
Thank you
Nadeen
March 11th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Hi teacher.
actually I was looking for something on the internet yesterday and suddenly I found your Website It’s really amazing and all that what you told what we really feel.
I used to study in U.K and I was doing that old method I remind some words today and I forget them week or two weeks later.
I started your fantastic way of learning English and I hope I do improvement in my English.
Thank you very much for your help.
March 12th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Hi my dear theacher AJ. Thank you so mush your efforless metod. I am from Mongolia. I study in effortless course from 01.07. 2008.Every day i am lessenig one hour. Step by step i improved. I am so happy. If you have seminar in San -Francisko I will be in San Francisko. I want to meet you and your students. Really amazing the metod. Thank you for your help. BAYASAA. from UB.
March 16th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
dear ,now iam doing well and my english improving very fast thank you very much,
March 20th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
I want to thank you for your useful guides. 4 months ago when I participated in TOEFL exam I got 9 at speaking section. But when I considered your comments I got 24 at the speaking section.
Thank you for everything
April 4th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
hm..
A.J.
u’re a good teacher.
i can start to speak english well after i joined ur course
thank’s for all..
hope there’s many student wanna to join this course
April 13th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Great job, teacher.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Dear AJ I downloaded Original Effortless English system & I am 100% satisfy with this product-Thanks a lot
April 30th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Effortless english is great.
It really works!
April 30th, 2009 at 6:52 am
Using your Effortles English Club I can speak English easy and without hesitate. I have improved my English thanks to AJ. He has given valuable tip to improve English language. God bless you. and hope you will be continuing to help needed people around the world. You have done great jobs.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Dear AJ I am listining your course and I am thinking it is very helpful thank you for every thing. I advace your system to all my friends. again thanks so much.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Well I want you to thank you for thorough this method I have learnt to study english in a better way now I finally feel that my English is really improving thanks
May 13th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Thanks indeed,
You do a great job for the learners of English.
Keep it up!
May 16th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Certainly, I like your method very much. It’s very helpful and great. I have been learning a lot only with reading and listening your lessons. They are really oriented to learn English fast.
Congratulations and thank you for helping us to lear English.
May 16th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Thanks my dear teacher A.J., I always got passion for English from your mail. You are really understanding what beginners need. and how to improve their English levels. and how to keep their passion for it.
Thanks a lot
May 16th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
You have a great program AJ. And how are you getting on with the Thai?
May 17th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Using your Effortles English Club I can speak English easy and without hesitation. I have improved my English thanks to AJ. He has given valuable tips to improve English language. God bless you. And hope you will be continuing to help needed people around the world. You have done a great job.
May 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Well thanks ever so much A.J Hoge you are an incredible teacher you teach in a very good way, I am absolutely right with you in we can learn faster when we make actions of movements and no trying to memorize a lof of words, I think we can learn English in a funny way using your methods and when I saw your videos I can understand what you´re saying because you speak clearly and you have always a smile in your face.
May 18th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Hi! AJ
You are great Yes! you are right I have been learning english for the last many years and try to remember the vocabularies but I failed to remember but your method is really working out- thanks!
May 18th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Hi teacher,i have been improving my knowledge in english,sinse that i started to use your method.
thenk you very much.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
HEY GUYS I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT The Effortless English system IS A GREAT WAY TO LEARN AND HAVE FUN, I DIDNT BELIEVE IN THIS COURSE BUT ONCE I STARTED TAKING THE LESSONS WOW ALL THE WORDS AND PHRASES WERE PRETTY EASY T0 REMEMBER. KEEP DOING THE GREAT JOB AJ!
May 19th, 2009 at 1:45 am
Well thanks very much A.J Hoge you are an incredible teacher you teach in a very good way, I am absolutely satisfied with your idea .
May 19th, 2009 at 6:07 am
hi’ Aj
its great to learn english from your site. i am really v much impressed and learn alot, even now i wish to teach enlish language course in our country Pakistan by using your method which is easy and powerfull, student will enjoy it as i am enjoying.
thx alot for your effort less efforts, ha ha
May 19th, 2009 at 10:20 am
i feel very happy to visit ur site. i recommend all of my friend to visit ur site. hopefully every person will get better understanding about english
May 19th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi A.J Hoge .You are the best teacher indeed. Your method is the best in teaching language. I could develop many abilities by changing my manner of studying. It is great,thank you very much. Greetings from Brazil.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hi AJ,
You’re the best. I’m Júlio Andrade from Brasil. I’m really happy to know someone who is doing a lot of good work for the beginners as me. Thak you so much and I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thaks.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Hey A.J, I’m really impressed about everything you’re wrote in the web site. For me it’s always a pleasure go trhough you web site because you can gain a lot of information and you can practice with a frien as well.
I hope you keep writing good articles as this one.
Thanks.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Hai A.J. As you repeatedly said in several podcast you are not a teacher. You are an english coach, because I am not afraid to make mistakes. I have been following your advice for the past one year. Now I am speaking english with out hesitation. I would be thankful to you in all my life. I live in south India Tamilnadu state. I am very happy and proud to recomand my friends to follow your advice and materials.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
hi AJ, i really found your teaching methods very helpful and ofcourse easy to apply. keep on doing the great work, thanx.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:23 am
First of I woulg to express my gratidiute about your priceless effort to provuide us with a crucial steps and knowledge.
I am – as mentioned – an English teacher, and I get much help following your instructions, better to say.
I an thankig for the second time and for ever.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I am sorry about my errorsm and that is becaus of the key board. * I would like to express my graditute
June 7th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
hello dear A.J.
thanks for help. you are a good man and i hope you good life .
have fun .
June 8th, 2009 at 5:17 am
Dear Hoge
Thank you very much for you lesson
Best regards
Jajat Sumantri
Indonesia
June 8th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Dear Hoge
Sorry, do you have facebook for our friends in your class, many thanks
Regards
Jajat Sumantri
Indonesia
[AJ: Yes, we have an Effortless English Facebook page!! Just do a search for "Effortless English" on Facebook.. then "become a fan". See you on Facebook!]
June 9th, 2009 at 9:49 am
hi my teacher iam very glad to learn english this website
June 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
thanks, I am exploring with eforless and I feel much better with these methods
June 9th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Hi AJ:I am very happy effortless english thanyou
greeting
ganesh (from denamrk?
June 10th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Hi A:J, Thank you very much for helping me in improving english speaking & also pronounciation, its really fantastic, keep it up.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:46 am
I’ve followed my amazing teacher AJ studied Effortless English for several weeks or month.I wanna say this method really works,more importantly, I can feel the energy and strong emotion which sent by AJ.And these fantastic feelings also help to keep my motivation strong and never ending.For the first time I post my feelings on this website,saying thank you.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:57 am
Hi,AJ
I think putting lessons on twitter is a clever idea,you know,recently i often go to that website to check it out if there is something new tiny podcast.I like all of your podcast even more than your lessons.
I also love your movie lessons.Looking foward to more interesting audios like that.Wish you enjoy yourself.
June 16th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
hi AJ
when you were talking about seven rules on speaking english just i got it simply.but i have come to realize, it worked 100%………………
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Dear A.J.
I always read your comments and they are really useful. I would be so appreciated if you give us useful hints about how to prepare ourselves for TOEFL iBT exam especially in listening and reading parts.
thank you
July 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Hi, I’m very interested to learn english as well; I would like to talk to somebody of your company by phone please; I feel very frustrated, because I’m not comfortable when I treat to talk to some persons. I feel nervous, and I forgot what I’m going to say.
Thanks a lot
July 5th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
TEACHER SOMETIME I FELL THAT IS VERY FAR THE DAY , THAT I CAN UNDERSTAND AND LISTEN WITH MUCH SPEED THIS IMPORTANT LANGUAGE, IF CONSIDERATE THAT I´VE 60 YEARS,
HOWEVER FOR MY THAT ISN´T IMPOSIBLE, I WOULD LIKE A BETTER SECRET FOR I CAN TO GET IT.
THANKS SO MUCH TEACHER,IT WILL TO BE WONDERFUL I CAN TO CHAT WITH YOU.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I would like to thank you, and say to continue your great work.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:32 am
hi
how I download the audio of the same Mini-Story lesson?
July 6th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Hi I don’t know if you are right in every situation. I read a text yesterday from my English book I had in my school. The text was taken from a book “Prarie-Town Boy.” In that text there were words like chore boy, teamster, housemaid, slave and other odd words. If you haven’t meet such persons you never learn the words if you don’t read litterature with what words. Who many who don’t works with computers know what a scanner is ? I am sure that eldery people don’t know that word but they know the word
housemaid and choreboy for example.
I had forgotten the word chore boy as I read that text last time when I was in grammarschool.
/Maria
July 6th, 2009 at 9:31 am
HiAj Greeuntings,
thanks for your tireless effors you are doing for all your students and i,mr carafaad, apreciate the significant lesson your are sending us.
thanks,
cheerful,
Carafaad
July 6th, 2009 at 10:27 am
As usaual our dearist teacher Mr. A.J presents innovative ideas for learning English and i am 100% sure of its affective effect.
July 6th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Hi AJ
OK I will try to shout my new words!!!
Thanks again!
July 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Hi!AJ!The method for memorizing words you introduced is good indeed.It’s effective.Because I have used it for many years. Thank you for your reserch in teaching English, which is realy good and creative.I showed your articles about correct way of listing exercises to my students,they all agree withyou. and one student even bought a set of your material,which she says,is good and she likes it.
July 6th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
sorry for miss spelling in my previous comment. The word “listing” should be “listening”. Lyon
July 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Haloow mrs.A.J Today i have successful story for you. First thank you for your teaching,but teacher this i mean your work i mean your teaching to the people freely is very vast
work so i feel a little bit very small and as if i disparaged you if i say to you only thank you.
So my teacher THe Successful story is about that “what i would say to you then instead of thank you”
Ask me….
July 6th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I love your course, thanks you for it.
July 6th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
hi AJ thanks for everithing all that you said is totally really i am improving with your free methed because i am not money to buy you your course but i have learned a lot thanks agen
i like to chat with you at least some words
by i always see everythigh you send me thanks i am from colombia
July 6th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Luis, I know everyone cannot get my lessons… that’s why I make so many free videos and podcasts and twitter audios
Enjoy!
July 6th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Hector,… and I love teaching great students like you! Thanks!
July 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Are these lessons beneficial for intermediate English speakers as well who have lived here for a long time but still can’t speak as natives do?
July 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Rozita- yes, they are perfect for both kinds of people!!
July 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Maria, I think easy reading is great– it will definitely increase your vocabulary. Do be careful with older books, however.. for example we never say “chore boy” now– it’s kind of a very old phrase
July 7th, 2009 at 12:31 am
your method is fantastic keep it up AJ
July 7th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
thanks for your best job
July 8th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
That is interesting, I never thought about it that way, I’m studying in my contry the first level, and your method is very very fun, easy, I like. but where I see that vacabulary???
Greetings.
I’m from Mexico, border with El Paso Tx.
July 13th, 2009 at 6:54 am
i think your lesson is useful, exciting for many people,like me. i ‘ll must face to face with an exam. it’s very important to my future. it’s a test on the paper, no listening E. no speaking E.So in ur ideal, what could i do to pass that exam ? i bought a lot of grammar book and everything like that …Remember the structure Of E. grammar, vocabulary …………………………
July 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I just found your website by chance,but I’m very suprise and wonder a lot! May I have more luck than now? thanks to you.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thank you very much for your new vocabulary learning system. at this movement im enjoying well. thanks a lot..to You.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Yes! At first I cant get 100% satifaction from 7 rules,but when you send me message that your http://www.. crash and your very high optimisim about new big success I was very,very positive(full of energy)….
MANY GOOD JOBS….
August 1st, 2009 at 2:50 pm
THANKS A LOT….
August 1st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
hi, i’m really glad and happy, because you have this page in internet, i’m starting to learn english in this moment and with your lessons i have improved so much, thanks a lot, i like to listen to you, because i can to understand easly.
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:41 am
hi i am venkat i thanks to sir ajhoge for developing of english vocabulary with lessons. the lessons are very ease to understand for me.once again thanks.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:22 am
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September 25th, 2009 at 10:23 am
thanks sir hoge ,now i feel learning english is very easy that is all because of sir efforts.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:06 am
You know, Mr. Hoge… I really do physical movements while teaching new voc specially for kids. and about the short story, it’s new one I will apply in sha’allah. Thanks! Medhat Mohsen from Egypt, Qena
September 27th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
i feel your effortless is very interesting. i hope you help me better in english. Thank you very mucj
October 5th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Thanks teacher! I like your methods
October 18th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Hi.my teacher,
You are my role model and i try to be like you,specail my speaking.
thanks for all.
I hope you be healthy all the time .
Thanks again .
I’m waiting for your next tip.
bye bye (your student Sasan)
October 18th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
thank you so much for your effective helps and comments.
October 18th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Thank u great teacher.I also strongly agree with our collegue who asked great hints from AJ about TOEFL ibt . especially reading and listining . I am looking forward to hearing from our teacher to help us getting bettw=er score in TOefl. Thank you teacher
October 19th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Hi A.J,
I did follow your methods and it worked perfectly.
But there were nothing new in this article in comparing to the last video that you showed us.
However, I admire you, and believe that your way is powerful and effective.
Thanks for your effort!
October 20th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Hi.AJ,
I’m Sasan and thanks for your free Twitter.
I live in Iran and i don’t have credit card,so i can’t buy your lesson.But i try to use the other free lesoon,Thanks so much.
Shall i and the other have a part of movie of your conference ???
I think its very good because my wish is ,can be there but impossible.
Thanks for every thing.
Have a good day,
Sasan
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
hello teacher iam really glad for helping and i appreciate all what you do
November 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Mr. AJ
I remember your video about connecting words to facial expression..and body movement.
Loath ..I still remember that word.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
thank you very much for your helps
November 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Thanx Aj, It’s help me to much..
November 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I really believe your advices are marvelous, but I think that it would be better if I could have a tutor to speak with me and could say me if I am doing it well or wrong.
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
i’m from Bali….
thank you my friend, you a good teacher and all of them is very useful…
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 am
i’m from Bali….
thank you my friend, you’re a good teacher and all of them is very useful…
December 30th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Thanks for you help. I will need from your lesson for 2010. I will English at University of Panamá.
February 21st, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Wow Aj,
it’s a great job I save that and I promise i’ll do it, I knew before but I need that also, I’ll send all this to other friend.
Thanks so much