Kaizen Point-Of-View Text
Hi this is AJ again and now it's time for our new kind of lesson which I call point of view
stories. Now the point of view story, or stories actually, are designed to teach you
grammar intuitively. Now there are a few important things you need to know and you
need to think about when you're doing this lesson. Or actually, there's a few things that
you need to know that you should not think about and the number one thing you should
not think about are grammar rules. Do not think about grammar rules. Very important.
Now I know you've been taught grammar rules for many years so it's hard to get that
out of your brain. But it's very hard to unlearn that information. Because you learned
grammar in an analytical way.
What that means is you intellectually learned grammar. You learned, okay, well the past
progressive is this and we use it in these situations and da, da, da, da, duh...and you
took all these grammar tests. And it totally confused your brain so that when you
actually speak, you don't know how to speak with proper grammar. It comes out wrong.
You take a grammar test, maybe you do very well. But when you speak your grammar
sucks, it's terrible! What's the problem here? Well, it's because you learned grammar
rules and terms. You studied it. You analyzed it. You memorized these rules. But you
didn't learn it intuitively, naturally. It did not get deep into your brain the way a native
speaker knows grammar.
So the point of view stories are designed to teach you the way a native speaker learns
grammar. And we learn grammar by listening, by understanding meaning, by
understanding patterns. So when you listen to these stories, here's the good news.
Just listen. Smile. Shoulders back. Feel great and just listen. Don't think about
anything. Don't think about rules, none of that. Just relax and enjoy the story. Notice
the patterns. You can notice the changes in vocabulary because in each story what I'm
going to do is I'm going to tell this exact same story from the mini-story. So in this story
you're going to hear the same story about Jan being rude. But l'm going to tell it from a
different point of view. It means from a different time.
So, for example, I might tell that story but from the future. I might say that I have an
idea for a movie and the movie will happen in ten years, ten years from now. In ten
years there will be a woman and she'll be very rude. Her name will be Jan. And l'll tell
the whole story from the point of view of the future. Of course, l'll change some of the
vocabulary, especially the verbs, in order to tell it from the future. Now all you have to
do is just listen to it. Just say "Okay, this is the future" and just notice. All you have to
do is just listen, notice some of the words change. I'll be using will, for example, and
you know that that's the future tense. But forget this idea of the future tense. Forget
your grammar books. Just notice the changes in vocabulary. Sometimes I might
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Kaizen Point-Of-View Text
Hi this is AJ again and now it's time for our new kind of lesson which I call point of view
stories. Now the point of view story, or stories actually, are designed to teach you
grammar intuitively. Now there are a few important things you need to know and you
need to think about when you're doing this lesson. Or actually, there's a few things that
you need to know that you should not think about and the number one thing you should
not think about are grammar rules. Do not think about grammar rules. Very important.
Now I know you've been taught grammar rules for many years so it's hard to get that
out of your brain. But it's very hard to unlearn that information. Because you learned
grammar in an analytical way.
What that means is you intellectually learned grammar. You learned, okay, well the past
progressive is this and we use it in these situations and da, da, da, da, duh...and you
took all these grammar tests. And it totally confused your brain so that when you
actually speak, you don't know how to speak with proper grammar. It comes out wrong.
You take a grammar test, maybe you do very well. But when you speak your grammar
sucks, it's terrible! What's the problem here? Well, it's because you learned grammar
rules and terms. You studied it. You analyzed it. You memorized these rules. But you
didn't learn it intuitively, naturally. It did not get deep into your brain the way a native
speaker knows grammar.
So the point of view stories are designed to teach you the way a native speaker learns
grammar. And we learn grammar by listening, by understanding meaning, by
understanding patterns. So when you listen to these stories, here's the good news.
Just listen. Smile. Shoulders back. Feel great and just listen. Don't think about
anything. Don't think about rules, none of that. Just relax and enjoy the story. Notice
the patterns. You can notice the changes in vocabulary because in each story what I'm
going to do is I'm going to tell this exact same story from the mini-story. So in this story
you're going to hear the same story about Jan being rude. But l'm going to tell it from a
different point of view. It means from a different time.
So, for example, I might tell that story but from the future. I might say that I have an
idea for a movie and the movie will happen in ten years, ten years from now. In ten
years there will be a woman and she'll be very rude. Her name will be Jan. And l'll tell
the whole story from the point of view of the future. Of course, l'll change some of the
vocabulary, especially the verbs, in order to tell it from the future. Now all you have to
do is just listen to it. Just say "Okay, this is the future" and just notice. All you have to
do is just listen, notice some of the words change. I'll be using will, for example, and
you know that that's the future tense. But forget this idea of the future tense. Forget
your grammar books. Just notice the changes in vocabulary. Sometimes I might
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