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How many tenses does the average speaker use when communicating on a daily basis, when doing ordinary activities?

This is a good question.

This is something that’s easier to show you, so watch this:

This is all just rough.

But you get the idea.

Basically, we can say that native speakers use the simple forms 80~90% of the time, then the present forms… and from there it’s all downhill.

Of course, that doesn’t mean people never use the other grammatical tenses.

They certainly do.

Every tense is used somewhere

Every rate grammatical tense is used somewhere, just the same as rare words. But just because it’s used somewhere, that doesn’t mean it’s useful to spend a lot of time learning it.

One of the big problems with the way English is taught is that it over-represents the rare tenses, and under-represents the simple tenses. The result is that people develop strange intuitions about tense, and mistakenly believe they should be using the rare ones a lot more than the should.

When in doubt?

Use the simple tenses: after all, you’ll be right about 90% of the time.

But the point is…

The way speakers actually use the tenses is clearly extremely imbalanced. And so the approach you take to learning the patterns of language (including tenses) needs to take this into account. What most people do is actually backwards, and it’s, well, not very good.

This is where what I call…

“Example-Based Learning” comes in.

That’s a topic we don’t have time for in this blog post: but if you want to learn about it, my best selling book, Master English FAST shows you how.

Cheers,
Julian Northbrook

Unless there’s a good reason to use it….

….confabulating with pompous lexis and jargon does little to elucidate your verbalisations. On the contrary, my little homosapius rex, utilising such oral ejectamenta simply serves to obfuscate your communications.

There! I said it!

And it’s true.

Watch this video to find out why:

• What kind of words should you be using to sound clever?
• What is the #1 requirement for clever sounding language?

But this isn’t just my opinion

Daniel Oppenheimer, a professor at Princeton University, ran a series of experiments. He wanted to know which were considered more intelligent: Simple essays, or essays that used complicated vocabulary.

In every case, the simple essays were considered more intelligent.

In fact, the more complicated the vocabulary an essay had, the lower it was rated.

Simply put…

The essays that were written in clear, easy to understand language were, well, clear and easy to understand. The key ideas and message contained in the essays weren’t hidden behind a wall of incomprehensible crap.

Want to sound clever when you speak English?

Three things have to be true —

The language you use needs to be clear and understandable. Your message needs to be well thought out and intelligent. And the way you deliver the message needs to be appropriate to the person you’re talking about.

I call this the “LKC Triangle” …

… and you’ll learn all about it in my book, Master English FAST — An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English.

In this hunk of papery goodness, l show you how to learn the language you need and use it effectively to communicate your ideas in a way that’s appropriate to the people you’re talking too.

[Julian]

P.S. Of all the big clever words I used in that video, one of them I actually just made up. Can you guess which one?

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Are you doing what you really want in life?

Or are you just playing it safe?

“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

ー Nelson Mandela

When I was younger I tired hard to pretend I wasn’t playing it safe.

I was a punk. Green dreadlocks. Piercings. The lot. I wanted the world to know that I was an artist and that I didn’t give a crap what anybody thought. But in reality I was just trying to fit in and be a part of something. Even now I have very good friends from then.

But in reality?

I was just playing it safe.

Dressing like all my friends, listening to the same music as my friends.

The point is….

It’s easy to think we’re taking risks and doing our best to live the way we want.

But are you really?

Sometimes it’s not always so black and white.

Your English, for example?

Are you really stepping out of your comfort zone and using every opportunity to improve? Are you doing everything in your power to master the language and use it as a catalyst for positive change in your life?

There’s no passion to be found in playing it small forever. After all, nobody lies on their deathbed and says “I wish I’d done less with life.”

This is the approach I take in Master English FAST.

It’s about far more than just learning English…. it’s about USING English to do awesome shit in the world.

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Cheers,

Julian Northbrook
Language Punk. Do More.

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