cheap gasoline. What kind of trip will you have? How fast will you go on
this road to fluency? Most likely, your trip will be slow and frustrating, with
frequent breakdowns. In fact, you probably will not reach your destination.
Now, you could put some high quality gas in that old car, but even then it
will likely take you a long time to reach your destination. Better gas will
help a little, but the trip is still likely to be slow and frustrating.
Now imagine instead that you’ll be driving a Formula 1 racing car on this
road to fluency. This car is made for speed and performance. Clearly, it will
go faster than the old, slow car. But what if you fill it up with cheap, low
quality fuel? There will likely be problems. Racing cars need racing fuel or
they will not perform well.
Obviously, the best situation would be to put high quality racing fuel into
your Formula 1 racing car! With this car and this fuel, your trip on the road
to fluency will be fast and exciting.
This is how learning English works. If you’ve been studying for a while,
you know by now that there are all sorts of systems. Traditional classes at
universities. Private lessons from language schools. Online or packaged
software courses. Immersion programs that put you in the country where
they speak the language you’re studying. In other words, you’ve got a lot of
different cars to choose from. Some may be better than others, some may be
faster. But even the greatest of these methods, the Ferrari of language
teaching, if you will, needs fuel to make it work.
A method, after all, is only an engine. And if you don’t give an engine
the proper fuel, even a great one won’t work the way you’d like it to. To
succeed, you need both quality fuel and a powerful engine.
The right engine + the right fuel = success
Obviously, I believe the right engine would be the Effortless English™
system.
What is the fuel? The fuel is your psychology. It is the beliefs, emotions,
and goals that power your learning. Your fuel is your motivation, your
