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Join Sunday Practice Sessions and improve your spontaneous speaking skills in English. Self-correction is a vital skill that is taught literally nowhere.
It must be modeled. This is what I do for the community members every Sunday.
Become a member and practice regularly. Nataliatokar.me/community
Join Sunday Practice Sessions and improve your spontaneous speaking skills in English. Self-correction is a vital skill that is taught literally nowhere.
It must be modeled. This is what I do for the community members every Sunday.
Become a member and practice regularly. Nataliatokar.me/community
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Self-correction in spontaneous speech. We do this all the time | Native-Like Fluency in English
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I am not a native speaker who is passionately committed to achieving mastery in a foreign language.
I do not believe in so-called "unique programs" and "secret methods". Instead, I say you don't need…
I am not a native speaker who is passionately committed to achieving mastery in a foreign language.
I do not believe in so-called "unique programs" and "secret methods". Instead, I say you don't need…
The more advanced you get as a language learner, the more you need to practice internalizing good vocabulary instead of memorizing new words.
"Learn 100 new words in a week" is a message that speaks to beginners. It sells very well.
Everyone who's not a beginner knows they can't learn 100 new words every week. Your progress slows as you get better at a skill.
The real problem is not that people don't know the words. That's why the solution can't be to learn new words. The real problem is that people speak on autopilot, unconsciously repeating the old patterns while paying expensive coaches to learn new patterns at the same time.
Students focus on learning new words and completely ignore the fact that to do so, they need to stop the old behaviors.
I say, "Stop learning new words". What's the point if you use them incorrectly in your speech? What's worse, you probably never use these fancy words in your conversations.
Start internalizing good vocabulary instead. This should not be NEW vocabulary. It can be a phrase you have heard many times, but you never use it or use it incorrectly.
Example: you know that it's correct to say "I ended up havING late dinner in the cafe next door", but you say "I ended up TO HAVE late dinner in A cafe VERY CLOSE TO ME"
Focus on using words correctly instead of collecting words you don't plan on using.
I call this routine: "The internalization routine". In the community of practice, you will find:
1. Full video lesson where I show you how I work with my internalization notebook
2. Video lessons that explain what this notebook is for and how to add words to it
3. A step-by-step practice routine that explains how to work with the notebook daily
4. Hundreds of vocabulary exercises to help you get to more advanced levels and sound more natural in English.
Become a member and practice with us.
nataliatokar.me/community
If you're a member, the full video lesson is here. Press PLAY and follow along.
"Learn 100 new words in a week" is a message that speaks to beginners. It sells very well.
Everyone who's not a beginner knows they can't learn 100 new words every week. Your progress slows as you get better at a skill.
The real problem is not that people don't know the words. That's why the solution can't be to learn new words. The real problem is that people speak on autopilot, unconsciously repeating the old patterns while paying expensive coaches to learn new patterns at the same time.
Students focus on learning new words and completely ignore the fact that to do so, they need to stop the old behaviors.
I say, "Stop learning new words". What's the point if you use them incorrectly in your speech? What's worse, you probably never use these fancy words in your conversations.
Start internalizing good vocabulary instead. This should not be NEW vocabulary. It can be a phrase you have heard many times, but you never use it or use it incorrectly.
Example: you know that it's correct to say "I ended up havING late dinner in the cafe next door", but you say "I ended up TO HAVE late dinner in A cafe VERY CLOSE TO ME"
Focus on using words correctly instead of collecting words you don't plan on using.
I call this routine: "The internalization routine". In the community of practice, you will find:
1. Full video lesson where I show you how I work with my internalization notebook
2. Video lessons that explain what this notebook is for and how to add words to it
3. A step-by-step practice routine that explains how to work with the notebook daily
4. Hundreds of vocabulary exercises to help you get to more advanced levels and sound more natural in English.
Become a member and practice with us.
nataliatokar.me/community
If you're a member, the full video lesson is here. Press PLAY and follow along.
This is the longest poem I've read. This poem helped me not only correct my vowels, melody, and pace, but also find the answers to the questions my heart kept asking for weeks on end.
The poem helped me slow down big time! Slowing down is my daily practice these days, and it ain't easy!
I discovered it by accident as I did our 14-day practice routine in the community. It's one of the most popular routines. See how other people read, what poems they choose, and how magical and tangible their progress gets.
Become a member and improve your accent and spontaneous speaking skills in English with us. nataliatokar.me/community
The poem helped me slow down big time! Slowing down is my daily practice these days, and it ain't easy!
I discovered it by accident as I did our 14-day practice routine in the community. It's one of the most popular routines. See how other people read, what poems they choose, and how magical and tangible their progress gets.
Become a member and improve your accent and spontaneous speaking skills in English with us. nataliatokar.me/community
I practice complicated moves in my workouts because they require intense concentration and help me get out of autopilot every day.
We do almost everything on autopilot. We speak on autopilot, especially in our first language.
When people expect to speak a foreign language with zero effort, as they do in their native language, I ask: "Are you happy living on autopilot?" They speak English or any foreign language inadequately because they rely too much on autopilot.
The goal is to develop a new language identity, meaning you will end up sounding speaking, and maybe even thinking differently in another language.
You can’t apply the same automaticity from your first language to a new one. First, recognize your automatic behaviors. Then question each and every one of them. Do you want to keep them when speaking another language? Do you want to continue repeating these behaviors effortlessly and unconsciously? Or do you want to develop new ones consciously?
People hurry. I get it. But the truth is, the more advanced you get, the more your progress slows. You need to do a lot more inner work to develop native-like fluency than if you need to pass a language test.
Self-remembering on a daily basis and questioning automatic behaviors you see in yourself is a life-long practice.
You will make significant progress when you surrender to the realization that it's a lifelong practice.
When people say, "I want to speak English as effortlessly as my native language. Please take me there as fast as possible", I tell them: "Do you think this acrobatic move that you see in the video can be done as effortlessly and quickly as sitting down on a chair and standing back up?"
Sitting down on a chair is a metaphor for speaking your first language. It requires zero thought. Doing what I do in the video is a metaphor for speaking a foreign language. You must slow down and consciously perform every move. You need to be conscious of every word you say, even in your first language.
Try that. It's damn hard.
We do almost everything on autopilot. We speak on autopilot, especially in our first language.
When people expect to speak a foreign language with zero effort, as they do in their native language, I ask: "Are you happy living on autopilot?" They speak English or any foreign language inadequately because they rely too much on autopilot.
The goal is to develop a new language identity, meaning you will end up sounding speaking, and maybe even thinking differently in another language.
You can’t apply the same automaticity from your first language to a new one. First, recognize your automatic behaviors. Then question each and every one of them. Do you want to keep them when speaking another language? Do you want to continue repeating these behaviors effortlessly and unconsciously? Or do you want to develop new ones consciously?
People hurry. I get it. But the truth is, the more advanced you get, the more your progress slows. You need to do a lot more inner work to develop native-like fluency than if you need to pass a language test.
Self-remembering on a daily basis and questioning automatic behaviors you see in yourself is a life-long practice.
You will make significant progress when you surrender to the realization that it's a lifelong practice.
When people say, "I want to speak English as effortlessly as my native language. Please take me there as fast as possible", I tell them: "Do you think this acrobatic move that you see in the video can be done as effortlessly and quickly as sitting down on a chair and standing back up?"
Sitting down on a chair is a metaphor for speaking your first language. It requires zero thought. Doing what I do in the video is a metaphor for speaking a foreign language. You must slow down and consciously perform every move. You need to be conscious of every word you say, even in your first language.
Try that. It's damn hard.
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"Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience."
Find 'The Presence Exercise" in the community of practice and learn FROM and WITH advanced English learners who practice their spontaneous speaking skills.
You can't prepare every next word you're going to say. This practice is futile.
You can only prepare yourself. That's what self-regulating your inner state is a more important practice.
We're paralyzed by our own fears, thoughts, and emotions. Not by the lack of words. The problem of not having enough words is easy to solve. We have fantastic exercises and routines in the community. With the right practice, you will sound natural and correct in English.
The real problem in spontaneous speech is automaticity. People start speaking before they're ready. They end up saying what they don't mean to say. They fear disapproval. They wait for approval. They get frustrated by ambiguous feedback or no feedback at all. They want to do good and they can't. They feel like they're taking up space and stealing everyone's time. They can't remember the words they need.
The real problem is that this problem repeats. A pattern will repeat until it doesn't need to repeat because you've changed it.
Join the community of practice. Join weekly Sunday Practice Sessions where we practice self-correction in spontaneous speech and learn to express our authentic selves in a foreign language.
nataliatokar.me/community
You can't prepare every next word you're going to say. This practice is futile.
You can only prepare yourself. That's what self-regulating your inner state is a more important practice.
We're paralyzed by our own fears, thoughts, and emotions. Not by the lack of words. The problem of not having enough words is easy to solve. We have fantastic exercises and routines in the community. With the right practice, you will sound natural and correct in English.
The real problem in spontaneous speech is automaticity. People start speaking before they're ready. They end up saying what they don't mean to say. They fear disapproval. They wait for approval. They get frustrated by ambiguous feedback or no feedback at all. They want to do good and they can't. They feel like they're taking up space and stealing everyone's time. They can't remember the words they need.
The real problem is that this problem repeats. A pattern will repeat until it doesn't need to repeat because you've changed it.
Join the community of practice. Join weekly Sunday Practice Sessions where we practice self-correction in spontaneous speech and learn to express our authentic selves in a foreign language.
nataliatokar.me/community
American Accent Training is tonight! Join us LIVE!
@nataliatokarr & @21accents partnered to help you practice your accent with professional human feedback.
Apply for group coaching here https://nataliatokar.typeform.com/to/FU1XcHkM.
Join LIVE coaching sessions twice a month. As a community member, you also get access to the American Accent course by Amy Walker and very specific exercises and practice routines carefully designed by me.
Join us in the community and practice what you have learned from 21Accents and their awesome content. Everyone in the group receives individual feedback and a personalized practice plan.
Join us, and your accent will improve.
@nataliatokarr & @21accents partnered to help you practice your accent with professional human feedback.
Apply for group coaching here https://nataliatokar.typeform.com/to/FU1XcHkM.
Join LIVE coaching sessions twice a month. As a community member, you also get access to the American Accent course by Amy Walker and very specific exercises and practice routines carefully designed by me.
Join us in the community and practice what you have learned from 21Accents and their awesome content. Everyone in the group receives individual feedback and a personalized practice plan.
Join us, and your accent will improve.
Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
You’re looking at a woman who used to be terrified of the camera.
She tried to look her best, tried to perform, until she got exhausted and learned to let go.
You look most beautiful when you don’t need to control how you look.
They say, “Dance like no one is watching.”
I say, “Dance as if everyone is watching,” because your dance will be the same.
Your beauty is just as powerful when the world sees you.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Learn to see the beauty in everything. Begin with yourself.
P.S. I wrote the captions myself. One person I don't have on my team and probably never will is a copywriter.
I write my own copy in English. Learning to write for native speakers of English has been a long journey. I'm still on it, and it's unlikely that I'm going to be done one day.
We have two workshops in the community with 40+ self-editing and self-correction tools for language learners. Use them when you practice writing and speaking in English better.
We also have A LOT of self-correction exercises. We do it LIVE every Sunday. Join and see for yourself.
nataliatokar.me/community.
📌❤️ Leave a comment with the word TRIAL and a 30-sec audio message that explains your motivation to join, and I will send you a message back, as well as the link to start your 3-day free trial in the community (for new members only)
Video by @ponomareva_nika
You’re looking at a woman who used to be terrified of the camera.
She tried to look her best, tried to perform, until she got exhausted and learned to let go.
You look most beautiful when you don’t need to control how you look.
They say, “Dance like no one is watching.”
I say, “Dance as if everyone is watching,” because your dance will be the same.
Your beauty is just as powerful when the world sees you.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Learn to see the beauty in everything. Begin with yourself.
P.S. I wrote the captions myself. One person I don't have on my team and probably never will is a copywriter.
I write my own copy in English. Learning to write for native speakers of English has been a long journey. I'm still on it, and it's unlikely that I'm going to be done one day.
We have two workshops in the community with 40+ self-editing and self-correction tools for language learners. Use them when you practice writing and speaking in English better.
We also have A LOT of self-correction exercises. We do it LIVE every Sunday. Join and see for yourself.
nataliatokar.me/community.
📌❤️ Leave a comment with the word TRIAL and a 30-sec audio message that explains your motivation to join, and I will send you a message back, as well as the link to start your 3-day free trial in the community (for new members only)
Video by @ponomareva_nika