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There will be no more LIVE cohorts of "Native-Like Fluency"

The current group is full, and I'm not accepting more applications.

BUT!!!

I want to share the method with the people who want to dramaticlaly improve their English skills and are tired of doing the same thing and seeing very unimpressive results.

The program "Native-Like Fluency" is now available as a series of recorded lessons, which will take you to new exercises, practice routines, feedback from me, and weekly spontaneous speaking practice.

YES! You get to attend our LIVE Sunday Practice Sessions if you're doing this program.

I will help you all along. You will not do it alone.
You will practice with feedback from me and you'll be a part of the community where we all practice the same thing.

Also, the recorded program is 70% less expensive than LIVE participation. Grab this opportunity now!

You will get TWO complementary 1:1 coaching calls with me (normally $295 each) if you purchase the recorded program until Nov 1, 2024

There will also be a dedicated support group for everyone who gets it before Nov 1.

https://nataliatokar.me/nlf-replays

I just paid $555 for a 60-min consultation, and OMG! It was so insightful.

I couldn't imagine paying even $300 for one hour of someone's time a few years ago. I could continue making this excuse for a few more years: "Oh, that's too expensive. I'm actually doing okay. I can improve my English / my career /my body later, i.e. I can do it any time..."

But the cost of making these excuses is too high for me.

I would still be on the other side of having native-like fluency. I'd still be scared, confused, feeling pressured to speak spontaneously, feeling lonely and NOT having the amazing relationships I am having right now with the best professionals like Amy Walker and Alex Brown.

The option to wait is always available, but it's so damn expensive....

$555 gave me a lot of clarity and energy for action.
Waiting seems to cost $0, but in reality it cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars that I ended up not making because I was busy waiting.

I waited for times when I'd feel better, know better, find a better teacher...
The truth is simple: the best teacher shows up when you're ready. The money starts flowing when you start taking action. The people start seeing you when you decide to become visible.

It's all a matter of making a decision.

I decided to build my career in English and use English for the rest of my life. That means EVERY DAY. When I became firm in my decision, opportunites knocked on my door, and I welcomed them.

The video says “Don’t worry about your English”. Most people make the conclusion that grammar is not important. I see a very different message here.

What do you see here?
I’ll share my view a bit later in a voice note

I have a new QUIZ for you.

If you're a community member, the same quiz is in the Grammar Practice Routine, and the system WILL measure your results. If you're a member, click here.


If you're not a member, check yourself.
This grammar practice routine is designed to help you make decisions rather than memorize all the rules of all the tenses.

We are finishing the chapter on the Present Tenses and are moving on to the Past Tenses so you tell beautiful, impactful, and clear stories in English, because they are worth sharing.

If you have questions about the quiz, ask them here or inside the quiz. There's a place for them.

https://nataliatokar.typeform.com/to/YihXlExq

Now there's a weekly practice plan for the community members.

If you find it hard to decide what exercise you should do TODAY and how to plan your practice week, follow my recommendations.

Learn and see more here

There is SUCH a huge difference between knowing a lot ABOUT something and EMBODYING it.

Like, we all know what a good parent is, right? When we see a bad parent, we know.
But BEING a good parent is so f*cking hard.

Knowing a lot about being honest is cool. BEING honest with yourself every single moment of the day is so damn hard.

I've been doing the practices from Joni Christine, our new embodiment coach. She says, "You can't have your full-blown YES before you own your NO".

Knowing a lot about boundaries is awesome. Communicating your boundaries is incredibly hard if you haven't practiced that before.

You don't have to go on a silent retreat to learn to be YOU in another language or to learn to effortlessly communicate what you mean in English.

You can literally do this from your laptop. You can learn from home. But you must be devoted to the practice.

And yes, you can learn English from a book or from YouTube (at least, that's what they say on the internet). But you can master real effortless fluency only with a coach, and you will get there A LOT faster.


You need a coach because real fluency is impossible to attain in the context of a classroom or in your alone time with Youtube. You need to communicate with different people about different things. You need feedback too. AND... you need to practice outside the coaching sessions.

Our group environment is a perfect playground for this. You get to talk to people from Russia. U.S., France, Hong Kong, and we all need the same thing - a natural ability to effortlessly communicate in English.

We talk to our accountability partners in between the sessions to deepen the practice; we share our epiphanies in writing, and we pay close attention to life. We are inspired by daily situations to create improvement.


Joni asked me to share my NO with her today. And then she broke down what I said, and my jaw dropped. I saw how I say "NO" to push people away. I really want them to never do this again! So I say NO. And then she showed me a beautiful way of saying the SAME "No", but in a way that inspires people to respect my boundaries and my needs and not pull away. In fact, my NO inspires them to act differently.

This is not what you can learn in one session and have it with you forever. This must be practiced.

This practice is open for WOMEN ONLY for now.

If you want to learn to say NO in a way that does not NOT harm the relationship, if you want to learn to communicate your needs to people instead of waiting for them to figure you out (which can take forever haha), join the practice this Sunday.

The women in our circle are truly amazing. We come from different backgrounds and counties, but we all need the same - connection, love, empowerment, confidence, and safety in relationships wth others.


Way too often women say what they think they should say.... and it backfires. You can learn to say what your hearts needs to express. Let me show you how in our meetings.

The next meeting is this Sunday, Nov 3, 2024. | 7pm MSK or 9.am MDT (Mountain Day Time)

DM me to join @nataliatokar

In case you missed my email,

You can get 70% OFF the native-like fluency program until the end of TODAY!

https://newsletter.nataliatokar.me/70off

On Nov 7, I’m doing an onboarding call for the people who’ve made the decision to do my native-like fluency program in the next 12 months.

The main Bonus, which was 2 private coaching calls has already expired!

But you can still get this program at 70% off before Nov 6.

I want you to experience DIRECT ROIs of becoming more fluent and free in your expression.

My clients are committed, disciplined, individuals who have a strong spirit.
I’m offering a new way to learn the language and finally move past “good English”. They offer their commitment and inspiring work in return. The results … are astonishing.

Read about some of them here ⬇️



https://newsletter.nataliatokar.me/nlf-lastcall-nov6

My cats also help me practice being precise and speak metaphorically in English :)

New practice plan for this week.
Let’s use the week to check our understanding of using the tenses correctly in spontaneous speech

A wise man once said, ‘Celebrate your accomplishments so thoroughly as to burn the bridge to whom you were before.”

This is extremely important, especially on a lifelong journey. You must stop from time to time and lay claim to the progress you have made. And close off the option of retreating to a smaller version of yourself.

Your accomplishments may be new skills or abilities, or new horizons that you could not see before. It could be new relationships or new possibilities in existing relationships. By claiming them, you mark your progress. It helps to fight off the despair when the way before you seems endless.”

Alison Armstrong

So many language learners are inspired by chat GPT today. They take is seriously. They use it as a dictionary. They glorify it and trust is 100%. They stopped checking the source of information. They trust chat GPT to write and think for them. Almost every post on LInkedIn is AI-generated.

Watch this interview.
Noam Chomsky, called "the father of modern linguistics" talks about chat GPT.

Another good interview for language learners is here. Start watching at min 19:00 and learn why Chat GPT can't help you learn a foreign language. Learn what "impossible languages" are and why it's dangerous.

https://youtu.be/_04Eus6sjV4?si=t84jTHQicVtwtN8V

People come to me wanting to be understood in unplanned, real-life situations, where things are unpredictable and when they are unprepared. So we get to work on developing their spontaneous speaking skills in English. As we begin to practice full authentic expression in another language, people quickly realize that knowledge of English (as a set of words and grammar rules) isn’t enough to express thoughts, emotions, insights, or experiences.


The updated article about the difference between learning English and developing spontaneous speech in English.

Click on the link below to read more ⬇️

https://nataliatokar.me/blog/tpost/gm4jh2ktk1-learning-english-vs-developing-spontaneo

“Discipline is the highest form of self-love”.

Someone on the internet who knows…

"it’s impossible to effortlessly and spontaneously express yourself to others in a foreign language unless you have mastered the process of forming thought in that language.
If you don’t practice explaining things to yourself in the target language, you won’t be able to explain them to native speakers."


Read part 2 of the article "Learning English vs Developing Spontaneous Speech in English" here https://nataliatokar.me/blog/tpost/423b6jczl1-learning-english-vs-developing-spontaneo