People believe that the main verb in learning a foreign language is "memorize". They get ready to deal with verbs like "remember", "learn", "prioritize", "understand", "repeat", "try again"...while the main skill for advanced learners who want to continue advancing their language skills and the quality of their conversations in English is to "discern".
"It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So."
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Watch the full video in the Community of Practice.
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/tips-to-build-your-practice-routine/cognitive-load
The full video in the community answers the following questions:
- What is Cognitive LOAD and how can we use it to OUR advantage when learning foreign languages?
- What is sensory & working memory and how can we apply it when learning English and improving our vocabulary?
- How can we watch movies in English more effectively (if you find yourself reading the subtitles all the time instead of watching a movie)
- How can we work with vocabulary to acquire it faster?
If you're not a member yet, start your free trial here https://pages.nataliatokar.me/community
#nataliatokar #nativelikefluency
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/tips-to-build-your-practice-routine/cognitive-load
The full video in the community answers the following questions:
- What is Cognitive LOAD and how can we use it to OUR advantage when learning foreign languages?
- What is sensory & working memory and how can we apply it when learning English and improving our vocabulary?
- How can we watch movies in English more effectively (if you find yourself reading the subtitles all the time instead of watching a movie)
- How can we work with vocabulary to acquire it faster?
If you're not a member yet, start your free trial here https://pages.nataliatokar.me/community
#nataliatokar #nativelikefluency
The next reading practice session is on July 3, 2022 in Moscow.
We will all read the same book for the session. I chose "A Red Herring without Mustard" because students asked for a detective/mystery novel. If you want to participate, please read the first 2 chapters (12,5 pages) before the meeting.
I will send the book to everyone who has registered for the event. The details are here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/reading-session-july-3
We will all read the same book for the session. I chose "A Red Herring without Mustard" because students asked for a detective/mystery novel. If you want to participate, please read the first 2 chapters (12,5 pages) before the meeting.
I will send the book to everyone who has registered for the event. The details are here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/reading-session-july-3
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🏛 A reading practice session in Petroff Palace Moscow. Reading a Mystery Novel | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
This time we all will be reading the same mystery novel (since many voted for a detective story)
“Reading out loud is a fundamental skill in the system of exercises to achieve Native-Like Fluency. When we read out loud, we learn to hear ourselves. We p...
“Reading out loud is a fundamental skill in the system of exercises to achieve Native-Like Fluency. When we read out loud, we learn to hear ourselves. We p...
If you want to improve your pronunciation and your understanding of the rhythm of English but you don't know where to begin, try this SPRINT! It's a short creative challenge and a ready practice routine. https://courses.nataliatokar.me/courses/sprint-thought-chunking
Natalia Tokar
SPRINT! Thought Chunking & Pausing in English
SPRINT! Thought Chunking and Pausing in English. Learn to understand the rhythm of English. Know where you should pause, why, and for how long.
Creative exercises to practice reading, understanding, and hearing various types of content.
Creative exercises to practice reading, understanding, and hearing various types of content.
Btw, did you hear a mistake that I made there? I deliberately repeated the wrong word combination a few times in this audio 😉
In the absence of data, we will always make up stories because meaning making is in our biology.
People make up stories at work because they don’t have access to information.
People make up stories at work because they don’t have access to information.
"Regard yourself as a cloud, in the flesh, because you see, clouds never make mistakes. Did you ever see a cloud that was misshapen? Did you ever see a badly designed wave? No, they always do the right thing. But, if you will, treat yourself for a while as a cloud or a wave and realize that you can’t make a mistake whatever you do. Because even if you do something that appears totally disastrous, it will all come out in the wash somehow or another. Then through this capacity you will develop a kind of confidence. And through confidence you will be able to trust your own intuition."
Source: Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking
Source: Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking
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The most successful path to mastering anything is to practice for the sake of the practice itself, not for the result. All significant learning is composed of brief spurts of progress followed by long periods of work where if feels as if you are stuck on a plateau. There are no experts–only learners.
I will add the book MASTERY by George Leonard to the Community today.
Here is the book summary by James Clear. Maybe you'll want to read it as well:)
Mastery by George Leonard summary
This is my book summary of Mastery by George Leonard. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary includes key lessons and important passages from the book.
- Definition of mastery: the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.
- If there is any sure route to success and fulfillment in life, it is to be found in the long-term, essentially goalless process of mastery.
- Start with something simple.
- All significant learning is composed of brief spurts of progress followed by long periods of work where if feels as if you’re going nowhere.
- The seven varieties of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal.
- The one physical feat where humans would outperform nearly all other animals of equal (or even larger) size is endurance running.
- On the path to improvement: the general progression is always the same. To take the master’s journey, you have to practice diligently, striving to hone your skills, to attain new levels of competence. But while doing so, you also have to be willing to spend most of your time on a plateau, to keep practicing even hen you seem to be getting nowhere.
- As we practice things, even though it feels like we are making no progress at all, we are turning new behaviors into habits. Learning is happening all along.
- The most successful path to mastery is to practice for the sake of the practice itself. Not for the result.
- On mastery in relationships: In today’s world two partners are rarely willing to live indefinitely on an unchanging plateau. When your tennis partner starts improving his or her game and you don’t, the game eventually breaks up. The same thing applies to relationships.
- Every time we spend money, we make an indication about what we value.
- The anti-mastery mentality is focused on quick fixes. Heart surgery rather than diet and exercise. Lottery tickets rather than retirement savings.
– In business, some people can make a lot of money in a short amount of time (corporate raiders, finance whiz kids, tech startups), but often there is very little value created for others or the national economy. The individual gets rich, but the world doesn’t get much better. Is this really a better path than the one of the craftsman? Someone who slowly and methodically improves, contributes something useful and valuable to society, and makes enough money in the process (despite not getting rich)?
- In the long run, the war against mastery, the path to patient, dedicated effort without attachment to immediate results, is a war that can’t be won.
- On human nature: Man is a learning animal, and the essence of the species is encoded in that simple term. The mastery of skills that are not genetically programmed is the most characteristically human of all activities.
– The five keys to mastery: Instruction, Practice, Surrender, Intentionality, and The Edge.
– On learning: For mastering most skills, there’s nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher.
- On finding a good teacher: To see the teacher clearly, look at his students.
– The best teachers strive to point out what a student is doing right just as frequently as what they are doing wrong. The idea of a teacher rarely giving praise and teaching through strict criticism is a myth.
– One benefit of learning slowly: it forces you to look deeply at the process and you discover incremental steps that you might otherwise gloss over if progress came easily.
Here is the book summary by James Clear. Maybe you'll want to read it as well:)
Mastery by George Leonard summary
This is my book summary of Mastery by George Leonard. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This summary includes key lessons and important passages from the book.
- Definition of mastery: the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice.
- If there is any sure route to success and fulfillment in life, it is to be found in the long-term, essentially goalless process of mastery.
- Start with something simple.
- All significant learning is composed of brief spurts of progress followed by long periods of work where if feels as if you’re going nowhere.
- The seven varieties of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal.
- The one physical feat where humans would outperform nearly all other animals of equal (or even larger) size is endurance running.
- On the path to improvement: the general progression is always the same. To take the master’s journey, you have to practice diligently, striving to hone your skills, to attain new levels of competence. But while doing so, you also have to be willing to spend most of your time on a plateau, to keep practicing even hen you seem to be getting nowhere.
- As we practice things, even though it feels like we are making no progress at all, we are turning new behaviors into habits. Learning is happening all along.
- The most successful path to mastery is to practice for the sake of the practice itself. Not for the result.
- On mastery in relationships: In today’s world two partners are rarely willing to live indefinitely on an unchanging plateau. When your tennis partner starts improving his or her game and you don’t, the game eventually breaks up. The same thing applies to relationships.
- Every time we spend money, we make an indication about what we value.
- The anti-mastery mentality is focused on quick fixes. Heart surgery rather than diet and exercise. Lottery tickets rather than retirement savings.
– In business, some people can make a lot of money in a short amount of time (corporate raiders, finance whiz kids, tech startups), but often there is very little value created for others or the national economy. The individual gets rich, but the world doesn’t get much better. Is this really a better path than the one of the craftsman? Someone who slowly and methodically improves, contributes something useful and valuable to society, and makes enough money in the process (despite not getting rich)?
- In the long run, the war against mastery, the path to patient, dedicated effort without attachment to immediate results, is a war that can’t be won.
- On human nature: Man is a learning animal, and the essence of the species is encoded in that simple term. The mastery of skills that are not genetically programmed is the most characteristically human of all activities.
– The five keys to mastery: Instruction, Practice, Surrender, Intentionality, and The Edge.
– On learning: For mastering most skills, there’s nothing better than being in the hands of a master teacher.
- On finding a good teacher: To see the teacher clearly, look at his students.
– The best teachers strive to point out what a student is doing right just as frequently as what they are doing wrong. The idea of a teacher rarely giving praise and teaching through strict criticism is a myth.
– One benefit of learning slowly: it forces you to look deeply at the process and you discover incremental steps that you might otherwise gloss over if progress came easily.