What is Real English®?

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What is Real English? The answer is simple. Real English answers the question
"How to speak English!": Listening comprehension first, the most important starting
point for learning any language. Real English is also a very unusual method
for learning English because it is based on people speaking naturally. You listen
to ordinary people in the US and UK speaking without thinking about
HOW they are speaking.
Nobody
speaks slowly and artificially to help you understand. And there are no actors
in Real English. Everything is real!
In order to make this "difficult speaking"
understandable, there are many hundreds of interactive exercises or quizzes
which include:

1) The spontaneous VIDEO, 2) PICTURES in every exercise
to give meaning to what people are saying, 3) teacher AUDIO providing
some extra help, and 4) the QUIZ or EXERCISE itself requiring
the student to write or choose an answer. And also the very
important instructions:
1 - Watch the video WITHOUT subtitles.
2 - Do all the exercises
in the lesson.
3 - Watch the video WITH subtitles.
In the end, the students understand everything, and they have followed a golden
rule about LISTENING FIRST, without subtitles, which also improves pronunciation.
Listening WITH subtitles is reading comprehension, not true listening!
Real English is also ONE VERY BIG ENGLISH APP. It's extremely interactive like all good
apps and in our case, people learn REAL English with it! And it's truly a lot
of serious fun.
A new interview of Michael Marzio, Real English®
team leader, from
Really-Learn-English.com.
It explains and summarizes how to speak English like a native.
It all started over a decade ago when a group of American and British ESL teachers at the Marzio School in the south of
France noticed that the traditional materials they were using from The Big Publishers to teach their students simply weren't doing the job they were supposedly designed for. Classroom English is all too often "perfect"
with slow short phrases spoken on the audio and video materials used with students. This is fine until the learners actually meet genuine Americans, British people, and other native speakers of English, to discover that nobody, in
the real world, speaks "classroom English".
Michael Marzio and his friends & teachers started interviewing people on the streets of the USA and other countries during his vacations, came back to his school in France, and edited the video according to classic grammar
structures and functions, in order to make the spontaneous, authentic, seemingly "fast" speech usable by different levels of students, including beginners.
The idea was to take the shock out of hearing real English for the first time. Since our students now watch and listen to real people, the shock is built into the method itself, saving learners many hours of frustration during
their first weeks and months in new English-speaking environments.
The first results were in the form of video cassettes (now DVDs) & CD-ROMs. We now concentrate on web video and interactive web lessons for students. Our new site for mobile devices is under construction.
2019 has been a year of consolidation, while we make new exercises and throw out the old ones. We've also done new filming in New York, Miami Beach, and Seattle, Washington. We will be doing more filming soon, and for as
long as I can.
We continue to film, and make lessons based on the videos. You will not find
any actors in our videos. All of our clips are based on people being themselves, speaking naturally and spontaneously, just like in the situations which learners will deal with when their training is finished,
when they travel to English-speaking countries, or when they welcome English speakers into their homes and offices.
This emphasis on lexical items, functions and grammar provide an anchor and a counterpoint to the spontaneity of street video. This unique approach is greatly appreciated by teachers who have been using traditional materials,
which present us with actors speaking slowly and distinctly, as if the real world were slow and distinct. The lessons include images and audio files directly related to what the speakers are saying in the videos, providing
meaning for beginners and intermediate students alike.