- Do you keep making the same foolish choices
again and again?
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Hello, I'm Julian Northbrook from doingenglish.com.
About a month ago I went to Amsterdam
for three days to do some video work
and just to have a look around
and whilst I was there
I found this leather jacket.
Ba-bam.
Pretty cool, yeah?
I love the fit, I love the colour
and I love the shoulder pads
that make me look like I've got muscles
when in reality everybody knows
that I haven't.
I saw this jacket, I loved it
and I just bought it there and then.
Big, big mistake.
See these red marks all around my neck?
Yeah, from this jacket.
Turns out that I'm allergic to brown leather dye
and every time I wear this jacket
I break out in a rash.
Now, if it were the first time
I'd ever bought a brown leather jacket
I could be forgiven for having bought it
but it's not.
I bought a similar brown leather jacket last year
and I had a terrible allergic reaction to it.
My entire neck went red and spotty
and itchy as hell.
We checked and yes, I was allergic
to something in the brown leather dye.
Why did I buy another brown leather jacket?
I mean, surely you buy one once,
you have a terrible allergic reaction to it,
you learn your lesson
and you don't buy another one, Julian.
Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you?
You really would but I did.
You see, when I saw it in the shop
and knew I wanted it,
the first thing that popped into my head
was indeed that I may well have an allergic reaction
to this jacket too
but I really, really wanted it
and there was a small irrational part of me
that kept saying but Julian,
perhaps this time it will be different.
Perhaps this time you won't go red and spotty
and what did I do?
I listened to that little hopeful, irrational voice
and bought the God damn bloody jacket.
We do it all the time though, don't we?
Take improving your English as an example.
If you are anything like I was
when I was trying to improve my Japanese,
you are probably stuck using methods
that really aren't very effective.
You are probably stuck in quite poor study habits
and thinking patterns
and they are holding you back
from really improving your English-speaking ability.
But also, if you're anything like I was
when I was struggling,
you probably on some level already know that
but keep doing it anyway
and for me, I knew what I was doing
wasn't really helping me that much.
I knew that just memorising lists of vocabulary,
just memorising more words,
I knew that just going out and just chatting to people
in Japanese and watching TV
and watching films in Japanese
really wasn't actually doing much to help me anymore.
I knew that
but and here's the thing,
it was easier and more fun
than doing the hard work that I knew that I had to do
to really improve.
Reaching the highest levels of English mastery,
the pinnacle of English achievement,
it can be done
but it ain't gonna happen by faffing around.
At some point you're gonna have to roll up your sleeves
and do the hard, uncomfortable work
to get really, really, really good at English,
to reach that extraordinary level.
I can help you
and it all starts with my book,
Master English Fast,
An Uncommon Guide to Speaking Extraordinary English.
This baby, it does what it says on the tin,
it will help you to master English fast
and speak extraordinarily good English
but only if you are prepared to put some serious time
and effort into improving your English
and reaching that highest level of mastery.
Do not even think about buying this book
if you're not gonna put the time and the effort
into actually doing what it tells you to do.
This ain't a walk in the park.
This is not easy.
What I teach is extraordinarily effective
but only if you do the work
and this ain't for lazy people,
this is not stupid magic method
where you get fluent in English instantly
without having to do anything.
Dear God, no,
it's gonna take time and effort.
Assuming that you actually are prepared
to put the time and the effort
into doing the work that you know you should be doing,
you can if you like read the introduction
and the first chapter for free.
Just head over to masterenglishfast.com.
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Goodbye.
The only question which remains now of course
is what the hell do I do with this jacket?
Anybody want a brown leather jacket?
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