Big Picture Vocabulary Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "The Big Picture." I've got some good news. This is a pretty easy article so the vocabulary lesson is quite short. Yay! Let's start it. Our first word is memorize. Dennis said real learning is not memorizing knowledge. Real learning is knowing how to use and find knowledge or facts. To memorize means to remember. It really means to force yourself to remember...force to remember. Make yourself remember....

Big Picture POV Text Hello, welcome to the point of view stories for "The Big Picture." Let's get started, same story about that amazing dog Athena. * * ** * Well, since she was a puppy, Athena has wanted to be the most famous dog in the world. It started when she was a puppy. Now, of course, a puppy is a baby dog. We don't say baby dog, we say puppy. So since she was a baby, since she was a puppy, Athena has wanted to be the most famous dog in the world. She wanted that. When she was...

Big Picture Mini-Story Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story lesson for "The Big Picture." Let's start right now. * * ** * Athena was the most famous dog in the world. Who was the most famous dog in the world? Athena, Athena was the most famous dog in the world. Was she the most famous dog in the world or was she the most famous cat in the world? Of course, Athena was the most famous dog in the world. Where was she the most famous dog? In the world, in all of the world....

Big Picture Main Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the next lesson. This one is called "The Big Picture." And it comes again from a book called The Big Picture. And The Big Picture is by a man named Dennis Littky. Now Littky is spelled L-i-t-t-k-y, Dennis Littky. The name of the book is The Big Picture. I love this book. This is a book about education and Mr. Littky is an extremely interesting guy. He is just a fantastic teacher, a fantastic educator. Mr. Littky used to be a teacher...

Taoism Vocabulary Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Taoism." Let's get started. Our first word is skull, skull. Alan Watts said "You have all the necessary intelligence you need inside of your skullI." Now your skull is your head bone, right? It's the bone that protects your brain. We call that the skull, your skull. So again skull is simply head bone. Next is the word strain. He said "You can strain your head just like you can strain a muscle." To strain means...

Taoism Point-of-View Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the point of view stories for "Taoism." Same story, but this time we start with "Since last year..." * * ** * Since last year Tomoe has wanted to fight a gorilla. She has wanted to fight a gorilla starting last year until recently. Tomoe has wanted to fight a gorilla since last year. In fact, every day since last year she has contemplated her goal. Starting last year, she started to contemplate and then every day she...

Taoism Mini-Story Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Taoism." * * * * * There was a girl, a very happy girl...a very beautiful girl, an amazing girl. She had a big smile. There was an amazing, beautiful, intelligent, wonderful girl. Her name was Tomoe and she wanted to fight a gorilla. What was her name? Her name was Tomoe. She was Japanese. What did Tomoe want to do? Tomoe wanted to fight a gorilla. What did she want to fight? A gorilla, Tomoe wanted to fight...

Taoism Main Text Hello, this is AJ again. Welcome to our next lesson, this one's a really interesting one from one of my favorite writers. Absolutely love him, his name is Alan Watts. He actually died back in the '70s but just an amazing man, so intelligent and actually quite funny actually, just a great sense of humor. And Alan Watts is a very interesting guy. He was one of the first western people, meaning American or European, to learn about eastern spiritual practices, eastern...

Superior Man Point-of-View Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the point of view stories for "Superior Man." Same story, different points of view. Let's start. * * ** * Since 1999 Kristin has wanted to go to the moon. What has she wanted? She has wanted to go to the moon. She has wanted to go to the moon since when? Since 1999. Since 1999 Kristin has wanted to go where? She has wanted to go to the moon since 1999. Who has wanted to go to the moon since 1999? Kristin, of course,...

Superior Man Mini-Story Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Superior Man." Are you strong? You feeling good? Let's get started. * * * * * Kristin wanted to go to the moon. She wanted to visit the moon. Who wanted to visit the moon? Well, Kristin did. Kristin wanted to visit the moon. Where did she want to go? She wanted to go to the moon. Who wanted to go there? Kristin, Kristin wanted to go to the moon. What did she want? To go to the moon, Kristin wanted to go to...

Superior Man Main Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the next lesson. This lesson is called "The Way of the Superior Man" and we're going to talk about a book with the same title, The Way of the Superior Man, by David Deida, his last name is D-e-i-d-a. David Deida, another very interesting book. I'm trying to introduce you to a lot of interesting books and after these lessons are all over maybe you can go find these books and read them yourself. What a cool idea. But first, let's get...

Superior Man Vocabulary Text Hi, this is AJ Hoge. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Superior Man." Let's start. Our first word is intimate, intimate. In the first sentence David Dieda says pick an area of your life, choose an area of your life. And he says perhaps your intimate relationships. So intimate, intimate relationship for example, intimate just means very close, very personal. So your intimate relationships are your closest relationships. Your husband or wife, boyfriend,...

Walden Vocabulary Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Walden." Let's get started. Our first word is advance, to advance. So this is a verb. Now you probably know advanced in another meaning, meaning high level. But this is a different meaning. This is a verb. It's an action. To advance means to move forward, to move forward. So advance towards your dreams means move towards your dreams. Go forward towards your dreams. Alright, our next word is to endeavor. This...

Walden Point-of-View Text Okay, welcome to the POV, point of view, lessons/stories for "Walden." Same story, different points of view. The first point of view starts with “Since she was 16..." Since she was 16 years old. * * ** * Since she was 16 years old Inka has wanted to build a beautiful castle. She has wanted to build a beautiful castle starting when she was 16 until recently. Since she was 16 Inka has wanted to build a big, wonderful, beautiful castle. She has dreamed of living...

Walden Mini-Story Text Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Walden." Take a deep breath. Shoulders back. Chest up. Big smile. Are you ready? Let's get started. * * ** * Inka wanted to build a huge beautiful house. What did Inka want to build? Well, Inka wanted to build a huge beautiful house. What kind of house did Inka want to build? A huge beautiful house, she wanted to build a huge beautiful house. Who wanted to build a huge beautiful house? Inka, Inka wanted to build a...

Walden Main Text Hi, this is AJ again. Welcome to the next lesson. This week's lesson is called "Walden." And we're going to talk about a book with the same name, Walden, by a writer named Henry David Thoreau. Now Thoreau is probably my favorite American writer, I guess maybe my favorite writer in general. He wrote back during the American Civil War, prior to the American Civil War, and his book Walden is his most famous book. Now it's quite difficult. There's a lot of big vocabulary in...

The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Healthy At 100 Vocabulary Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Healthy at 100." Now, I know the vocabulary lesson is probably the least exciting and interesting lesson of the collection. And that's okay. In fact, it's really my least favorite as well. l'd say listen to it one or two times, maybe the first and second day, and after that you don't need to listen to it every single day. The most important...

 The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Healthy At 100 Point-of-View Text Hello, this is AJ. Let's get started with the POV, point of view mini-story for “Healthy at 100." Same story, different points of view. * * ** * Since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star. Since when? Since he was 16, since he was 16 Joe has wanted to be a movie star. Who has wanted to be a movie star? Bill? Not Bill, Joe. Joe has wanted to be a movie star. Since when? Since he...

The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Healthy At 100 Mini-Story Text Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Healthy at 100." Let's get started. * * ** * There was a guy named Joe. Joe wanted to be a famous movie star. Was he a famous movie star? No, he wasn't a movie star. He wanted to be a movie star. What did Joe want to be? He wanted to be a movie star. Did he want to be a TV star? No, no, no, no, no, no. He didn't want to be a TV star. What...

Healthy At 100 Main Text Hello, this is AJ again. Welcome to our next lesson. This one is called “Healthy at 100." Healthy at 100 is the name of a book by John Robbins. It's a fantastic book, very interesting and the topic of this book is exactly what the title says. The topic of this book is how to be a healthy person at the age of 100, which seems kind of amazing to most people. Can you be healthy? Can you be strong? Can you have energy when you're 100 years old? And the answer is...

The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Unlimited Vocabulary Text Unlimited Power Vocabulary Hello this is AJ again. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Unlimited Power." Let's start right away. Our first phrase is roll of the dice, roll of the dice. Now the sentence in the article says: The difference between people who produce positive results and those who do not is not some sort of roll of the dice. Okay, roll of the dice means a random event, random event....

The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Unlimited POV Text Unlimited Power_POV Welcome to the POV stories for "Unlimited Power." And of course, POV means point of view. Same story about Marco, the hot, sexy man. This time we're going to start with "Since 1979." Since 1979 Marco has wanted a hot, sexy body. Since 1979 March has wanted a perfect body. But, he didn't have one. Unfortunately, he was a little bit fat, a little bit weak. Not terrible, but he didn't...

Unlimited Mini-Story Text Unlimited Power Mini-Story Hello this is AJ. Welcome to the mini-story for "Unlimited Power." Now get some power in your body right now. Get some passion in your body. Start with your body, look up not down. Get your chest up. Get your shoulders back. Stand tall, if you're sitting, sit tall. Big deep breaths. And then if you can, start moving and finally, big smile on your face. I'm smiling right now. You should be, too. Alright, now we've got some energy...

Unlimited Main Text Okay, hello, it's me again, AJ, and we're back for another lesson. This lesson is called "Unlimited Power." Great title and of course it comes from the book by Tony Robbins who is another one of my favorite teachers. In fact, I really love Tony. I just got back from a seminar of his. He is fantastic and I highly recommend his books, his tapes, his CDs, his seminars...anything you can get from Tony Robbins...fantastic! And we're going to again do a little excerpt, a...

Reading Power Vocabulary Text Hello, this is AJ again. Big smile...deep breath. Move that body, let's start the vocabulary lesson for "The Power of Reading." Okay, one of the words we had in there was competence. Now, Dr. Krashen said people develop competence when they read. They develop the competence they need to move from the beginning level to a level where they can use the language for more difficult purposes. Competence, competence. Competence means skill or ability. So when you...