Day 3: Avoid this common mistake that English learners make

It's me, Aaron. I have some more thoughts about learning English for you.

Most learners make one big mistake when they study English. They make this mistake because of how language is taught in most schools.

I'm going to give you one piece of advice so that you can avoid making this common mistake:

Don't study vocabulary lists.

Huh? What's wrong with learning vocabulary?

Vocabulary isn't wrong. You need it. The problem is the traditional way of thinking about vocabulary.

Most people are taught to study lists of words by themselves: apple, surrender, enormous. But when you learn words by themselves, a few things happen:

• You learn what the words mean, but you don't learn how they're used. You don't learn what other words they fit together with.
• The words get saved in your brain one by one. So when it's time to make a sentence, you have to pull them out again one by one. That makes it slow.
• You don't get a real connection to the words. They're just boring words in a list, so it's easy to forget them.

Instead of teaching words, PhraseMix teaches phrases: eat an apple, surrender to (someone), an enormous mistake. This gives you better understanding of how words are used, not just what they mean.

So here's a new rule: Never learn a word by itself. Always learn two or more words together in a phrase.

Tomorrow, I'll share an even better way to learn that will make you more fluent than ever.

Thanks for reading!
Aaron Knight

P.S. If you'd like to get started with mastering English through phrases, you don't have to wait for the rest of this course to do it; check out PhraseMix Premium: phrasemix.com/getpremium.

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Day 2: How to keep what you've learned

Hi! This is Aaron from PhraseMix again.

Yesterday I shared my #1 English learning secret with you. Do you remember what it was?

If not, you should go back to yesterday's email and review it.

And that's my next tip:

You must review!

Our brains are lazy. They quickly forget anything that they don't need.

If you learn something once and don't review, you'll probably forget it in a day or two. By the end of the week, it's totally gone.

You're probably busy, so you have to use your time smartly. You can't practice something completely different every day. You have to spend some of your time reviewing what you learned before.

Do this, starting today:

1. Get a small notebook. Keep it with you all the time.
2. Every time you do something in English, write down a few notes about it.
3. Look at your notes once or twice a day, every day.

Is that too much work for you? Then maybe you should try PhraseMix Premium, my tool for learning real English. I built it to keep track of what you've learned, and automatically schedule lessons for you to review. All you have to do is hit the "play" button.

However you do it, make sure to review what you've learned before. And do it every day, without skipping any days.

Tomorrow, I'll tell you about a big mistake that most English learners make.

But if you're interested in improving your English skill, you don't have to wait for the rest of this course to get started; check out PhraseMix Premium: phrasemix.com/getpremium.

Until tomorrow,

Aaron

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