ORIGINAL COURSE
The Original course is AJ's very first course. When it was released it was simply called "Effortless English Lessons" . AJ recorded it in his apartment in San Francisco, where he used to live, that's why the sound wasn't high-quality. Nevertheless, the content of this course is what makes it popular still fifteen years later.
After huge success with the Power English course, AJ stopped selling the Original course. But several years later he decided to make it available again due to the students' requests. The re-released original course has remastered sound and text coverage for every lesson. In this course, you'll find some of AJ's most popular lessons ever made like Cafe Puccini, Jack Kerouac, Day of the Dead, and many more.
Content:
- Over thirty-five full hours of mp3 lessons
- Main audio lessons
- Vocabulary lessons
- Mini-story lessons
- Point Of View lessons
- Commentary lessons
- PDF transcripts
Level:
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High-beginner ----- Low-intermediate
POWER ENGLISH COURSE
Power English course is AJ's best-seller course. The course is recorded in a professional studio and has much better sound quality. On the day it was launched, effortlessenglishclub.com had so many visits that the website crashed. Therefore AJ was forced to get a more reliable host.
This course will not only teach you to speak fluently. The main focus is on the psychology of success. It'll teach you powerful NLP techniques for living a better life. Power English introduces some great books such as Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, Slow Burn by Stu Mittleman, Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer, and many more.
Content:
- Thirty mp3 lesson sets
- Main audio lessons
- Vocabulary lessons
- Mini-story lessons
- Point Of View lessons
- 8 Action Vocabulary Videos
- PDF transcripts
Level:
Intermediate
VIP PROGRAM
AJ's VIP program is created to help students reach the advanced level of speaking. Unlike all the other courses, it isn't a one-time downloadable course. It is a monthly membership program. The cool thing is that you can try it for just one dollar. You can learn with the VIP program as long as you want. AJ recommends 7 years is enough.
The VIP program is for the most motivated, most committed students. The program is, in fact, AJ's leadership academy. It is designed not only to produce powerful, persuasive English speakers but also leaders of their communities.
The main focus is on leadership, persuasion, wisdom, personal and professional success. In the lessons, AJ often introduces some of the best motivational speakers like Tony Robbins. Other times students have a chance to learn from some of the greatest books ever written like The Iliad, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, and many more.
VIP members get:
- Two new lesson sets every month
- Main lessons, Commentary lessons
- Mini-stories, POV stories
- PDF transcripts
- Movie technique lessons (sometimes)
- Right to attend VIP teleseminars
- Red Pill course for free
Level:
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High-Intermediate ----- Advanced
BUSINESS ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS COURSE
Business English Conversations course is a course AJ made with his dad,George Hoge. George has an MBA and decades of experience with large companies such as IBM. In this course, he will teach you how to succeed in the corporate world. On the other hand, AJ is an entrepreneur, and he will teach you from the small business owner's point of view.
The course contains a set of unscripted, natural conversations between two native speakers about different business topics, including job searching, career development, business, accounting, sales, marketing, and much more. Given that they come from different backgrounds, these two will sometimes have completely opposite standpoints.
You consider yourself an advanced English speaker and think you don't need to learn business English. Check out this video and see if you know the vocab George is using here. Good luck!
Content:
- Sixteen units total
- Conversations
- Vocabulary lessons
- Commentary from AJ
- Commentary from George
- Business slang, idioms
- PDF transcripts
Level:
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High-Intermediate ----- Advanced
PRONUNCIATION COURSE
The Effortless English Pronunciation course will help you develop a clear North American accent. What sets it apart from other pronunciation courses out there is the fact that AJ teaches not only the pronunciation of individual sounds. He will also teach you the music, the melody of the English language.
Every language has its own music. This course will train you to hear and understand the rhythm of English, the tone, patterns of stress, proper intonation. With every unit, you will train the muscles in your mouth, throat, neck, face, tongue, and even body. This course is complementary to all other AJ's courses. This meansyou can combine it with other courses . In this way, you'll work on your fluency and your pronunciation simultaneously.
"For communication, pronunciation is more important than grammar." -AJ HOGE
Content:
- Nineteen units total
- Each unit is a five days practice program
- Teaching video in every unit
- Training audio in every unit
- Text for the videos
- Text for the audios
Level:
ALL LEVELS
RED PILL COURSE
The Red Pill Course is AJ's latest course. It is based on the movie club lessons which AJ did live on Twitch. AJ created this course using his famous movie technique analyzing the movie The Matrix.
Even though it's about a movie, this course is also based on the listening approach. You master a real movie by learning with your ears. The red pill course will enable you to understand real movies, learn idioms and slang, and improve your listening speed so you can understand everything instantly.
LEARN REAL ENGLISH
Learn Real English was a course AJ made with his best friends, Kristin Dodds and Joe Weiss. The main purpose of the course was to teach real English, not textbook English. It contained 30 units. Every unit had real conversations -mostly between Kristin and Joe- on a variety of topics from everyday life, vocabulary lessons, mini-story lessons, POV lessons.
The LRE students could enroll in a sort of VIP program, which was called in that case Advanced Conversations Club (ACC) program. They had the same benefits as VIP members plus some more stuff from Kristin and Joe.
I'm using the past tense because, unfortunately, this course is not available anymore. Given this was my first course, I'm hoping that one day AJ will make it available again the same way he did with the Original course and BEC course.
*The icon is representing one of my favorite lessons - Hitchhiking in Europe
Checkmate English!
----- Original
----- Original + Pronunciation
----- Power
----- Power + Pronunciation
----- BEC
----- BEC + Pronunciation
----- VIP
----- VIP + Pronunciation
----- VIP + BEC + Pronunciation