If you listen to native speaking podcasts that use a lot of slang and a casual speaking style, your spoken English will benefit greatly.  I spend several hours a week watching the latest cool movies and pick out all the phrasal verbs as well as other cool slang and vocabulary to make your English sound more natural.  This style of teaching works amazingly well for thousands of our paying users.

The reason the Iphone, Ipad, Android, etc are so great for learning this stuff is because you take these things everywhere you go. You’ll no longer be able to think up an excuse for why you aren’t studying.  You have so much free time during the day it’s crazy.  It may seem like you are really busy, but when you think about it, you can easily find a few minutes a day to study this stuff.  Don’t have an “all or nothing” way of thinking.  Some quality English study a day (even 15 minutes) is enough to make a big improvement.  The key is not to get lazy and make a plan and then quit.  That’s the kind of thing most people do and it never works.

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English schools don’t focus nearly enough on teaching how native speakers really talk to each other.  There is some weird idea that teachers should teach really formal language.  It makes no sense because no one uses this in daily life.  Reading an English textbook is a joke.  We never say stuff like “hello, how are you today?”  although, many books teach things equally crazy.

We do something new and really helpful.  We let you inside the real conversations of native speakers.  We explain everything you might not know and force you understand everything.  The next time you hear this on TV or real life you will be able to understand and answer properly.

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1. Butter up: If you “butter someone up” it means you compliment them a lot so that you can get something in return.

“Did you see him buttering up the boss yesterday? I’m sure he’s going to ask for a raise soon”

2. Keep up: If you “keep up” it means that you are up to schedule.

“I’ve had to work a lot of OT this week just to keep up. It’s driving me crazy”

3. Stand up to: If you “stand up to” someone it means that you are confronting them and you refuse to continue to take their abuse.

“She finally stood up to her manager and told him that she couldn’t take any more of his constant complaining.

1.  Watch American movies and download the subtitles.  You can easily find them on Google.  Read through the movie script and underline the phrasal verbs that you don’t understand.  Look up these phrasal verbs online.

2.  Listen to two Canadian brothers do the best ESL podcast at www.china232.com.  Sign up for the VIP section and read the full transcript of each show.  The show is really enjoyable, modern, and super useful on many different levels.  It is probably the best way to understand native spoken English in the shortest amount of time.

3.  Make your own list of phrasal verbs that you find interesting from using these two methods.  Make the list on the computer so that you don’t lose it and keep adding to it.  Every time you come across an English phrasal verb that you find interesting, write it down along with some examples of when you could use it in real life.  Practice using them when talking on msn, at work, or in person with native speakers.

4.  Sign up for this free email course on English phrasal verbs below.  You’ll learn some slang and other cool stuff.

It’s 2010 and it’s time to take advantage of these useful study methods which are far better than what is going on at expensive English schools or the public school system for teaching English as a second language.

Let’s face it, any English learner needs to know phrasal verbs well if they want to sound like a native speaker.  Native speakers can easily know that someone is a non native speaker after just listening to a sentence or two.  This is mostly because most non native speakers use phrasal verbs so poorly when they speak English.  This is a frustrating experience for any ESL learner but there is hope….

The worst thing any non native speaker can ever do is to use a phrasal verb dictionary or a list of phrasal verbs to try to learn them.  This is because reading off a list is so hard to properly memorize when trying to speak.  Also, many phrasal verbs on the lists are so uncommon, that it is basically a waste of time to even try to remember the list.  Did I mention that it is a super boring way to learn as well?  I’m sure you already know that.

I’m a Canadian now living in Shanghai.  I’ve been privately teaching non native speakers from all over the world to speak like a native speaker.  I started doing it for fun but then I quickly realized I was really able to help people.  People started telling their friends how quickly they were able to improve and in less then 3 months I had more new students than I even wanted.  I usually charge over 100 USD per hour and now I’ve stopped doing that because I’m too busy with other work.

Anyway, since so many nice people who want to learn English still email me every day wanting me to teach them how I taught the other people, I’ve decided to be a nice guy and give away my list of phrasal verb exercises and secrets for free.

If you are interested then sign up below for my free phrasal verb course and you’ll be talking like a native speaker faster than you could imagine.