A new exercise for everyone in the community of practice. FOCUS: the rhythm of English, thought chunking, and finding a focus word.
Go ahead and try it today! You will find the audio instruction and a lot of examples to work with if you follow the link.
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/exercise-focus-word
Go ahead and try it today! You will find the audio instruction and a lot of examples to work with if you follow the link.
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/exercise-focus-word
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Exercise: read a quote out loud and find the FOCUS word | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
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Here is the video that I mentioned in the audio:
#rhythm
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Here is the video that I mentioned in the audio:
#rhythm
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Do you understand EVERY word of what Matthew McConaughey is saying?
Let me show you the exercise that I did today using this video. Check out Exercise #79 in the Community.
The FOCUS is: understanding fast connected speech + brevity. We're going to learn to explain a metaphor (It's a good one to use it in your future presentations in English 😉)
The exercise took me 15 min. You can follow my unedited process.
Come on board and practice with me. Create your own practice routine. There is always something to do in the community. There is novelty, variety, and JOY.
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/exercises/exercise79
The FOCUS is: understanding fast connected speech + brevity. We're going to learn to explain a metaphor (It's a good one to use it in your future presentations in English 😉)
The exercise took me 15 min. You can follow my unedited process.
Come on board and practice with me. Create your own practice routine. There is always something to do in the community. There is novelty, variety, and JOY.
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/exercises/exercise79
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Creative exercises
Your inner state is not something that happens to you.
It is what you experience in the process of doing something.
You have the absolute power to choose what activities you want to engage in.
You have the power to cultivate the inner state that YOU need.
If you want to learn to stay calm and focused when you need to give a speech or talk about yourself in a job interview in English, take good care of your inner state. Do not try to work on your inner state during an English class. Do this work before and after the class. You will use this skill in situations when you need to speak English, but you want to practice the skill when you do other things as you go through your day.
At first, it will take effort. When you start the practice, you will need certain triggers to get yourself into the right state: music, smells, clothing, light, etc... The more you practice, the fewer prompts you will need.
It is what you experience in the process of doing something.
You have the absolute power to choose what activities you want to engage in.
You have the power to cultivate the inner state that YOU need.
If you want to learn to stay calm and focused when you need to give a speech or talk about yourself in a job interview in English, take good care of your inner state. Do not try to work on your inner state during an English class. Do this work before and after the class. You will use this skill in situations when you need to speak English, but you want to practice the skill when you do other things as you go through your day.
At first, it will take effort. When you start the practice, you will need certain triggers to get yourself into the right state: music, smells, clothing, light, etc... The more you practice, the fewer prompts you will need.
The reason why I’m speaking about the importance of inner state is that native-like fluency means confidence in SPONTANEOUS conversation.
We can’t prepare every single word that we’re going to say. But we can prepare ourselves to have the confidence to say the right words.
We can’t prepare every single word that we’re going to say. But we can prepare ourselves to have the confidence to say the right words.
NEW schedule!
StoryCLUB and BookCLUB for international teenagers - every Tuesday at 19:00 MSK (GMT+3)
The meetings are free of charge.
We're inviting teenagers who love to read books and listen to good stories in English to join the weekly club meetings. Every session is 60 min long.
It doesn't matter what your first language is. All teenagers from all parts of the world, including bilinguial children, are welcome to join our group of story enthusiasts and practice better reading & speaking skills. Currently, we are all reading the same book, and you can absolutely join and dive into the dog mistery too! (the book is about a dog that was mysteriously killed) We're also learning to tell better stories in English.
During the last session, our club members presented about a Crab Nebula, a Double Slit Expreminent, and Prime Numbers! Now we all know more about physics:)
Here are the skills that we practice during our sessions:
1. Presentation skills in English
2. Structured storytelling
3. Reading out loud
4. Tone of voice and speech delivery
5. Understanding fiction characters
6. Expressing your opinion in English
7. Sharing ideas with others
8. Better reading skills (attentive reading, pronunciation, phonetics, stress etc)
9. Summarizing information
To join us, please send an email to natalia@upskillme.ru with a Subject Line "A club for teenagers"
StoryCLUB and BookCLUB for international teenagers - every Tuesday at 19:00 MSK (GMT+3)
The meetings are free of charge.
We're inviting teenagers who love to read books and listen to good stories in English to join the weekly club meetings. Every session is 60 min long.
It doesn't matter what your first language is. All teenagers from all parts of the world, including bilinguial children, are welcome to join our group of story enthusiasts and practice better reading & speaking skills. Currently, we are all reading the same book, and you can absolutely join and dive into the dog mistery too! (the book is about a dog that was mysteriously killed) We're also learning to tell better stories in English.
During the last session, our club members presented about a Crab Nebula, a Double Slit Expreminent, and Prime Numbers! Now we all know more about physics:)
Here are the skills that we practice during our sessions:
1. Presentation skills in English
2. Structured storytelling
3. Reading out loud
4. Tone of voice and speech delivery
5. Understanding fiction characters
6. Expressing your opinion in English
7. Sharing ideas with others
8. Better reading skills (attentive reading, pronunciation, phonetics, stress etc)
9. Summarizing information
To join us, please send an email to natalia@upskillme.ru with a Subject Line "A club for teenagers"
Listen to this excerpt of 'The Deep Places' by Ross Douthat in preparation to join us this weekend for an opportunity to come together and read aloud to one another.
By reading out loud, we become more attuned to our delivery and our own feelings. When you read to others, you want to make sure they can hear how you feel about the text.
Native-Like Fluency is so much about feeling the language and the people who speak it.
The FOCUS of this practice:
- The rhythm of English (pauses, pitch, stress, volume, etc.)
- Strong verbs and adjectives
- Intonations
- Making sense of information
- Delivering ideas so others receive precisely what you intended to send
- Proper understanding (you can read the passage beautifully only if you truly understand it)
I encourage you to bring a sample of text that you love and allow others to experience the beauty that the page holds.
If you struggle to find a piece you would like to share, please let me know, as I can help you with suggestions.
I'll see you there!
The exact location will be sent to all the confirmed participants.
RSVP here: https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/reading-practice-sep18
PS - For the full audio clip (and many more) Penguin Random House on Soundcloud has a fantastic selection of audio clips available for a wide variety of books:
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-audio/the-deep-places-by-ross
By reading out loud, we become more attuned to our delivery and our own feelings. When you read to others, you want to make sure they can hear how you feel about the text.
Native-Like Fluency is so much about feeling the language and the people who speak it.
The FOCUS of this practice:
- The rhythm of English (pauses, pitch, stress, volume, etc.)
- Strong verbs and adjectives
- Intonations
- Making sense of information
- Delivering ideas so others receive precisely what you intended to send
- Proper understanding (you can read the passage beautifully only if you truly understand it)
I encourage you to bring a sample of text that you love and allow others to experience the beauty that the page holds.
If you struggle to find a piece you would like to share, please let me know, as I can help you with suggestions.
I'll see you there!
The exact location will be sent to all the confirmed participants.
RSVP here: https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/reading-practice-sep18
PS - For the full audio clip (and many more) Penguin Random House on Soundcloud has a fantastic selection of audio clips available for a wide variety of books:
https://soundcloud.com/penguin-audio/the-deep-places-by-ross
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A Reading Practice Session in Moscow. Feel the beauty of reading & being read to | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
Reading out loud is a fundamental skill in the system of exercises to achieve Native-Like Fluency.
This is an opportunity to get together in a supportive space where I offer personalized feedback to help each participant better understand the tone, i...
This is an opportunity to get together in a supportive space where I offer personalized feedback to help each participant better understand the tone, i...
A community of practice is a dedicated platform for advanced learners who need endless inspiration, consistently high novelty, and a clear, structured approach to improving their language skills.
Think of it as a gym where you would go to do different workouts to train specific skills: endurance, strength, mobility, better wheel pose, more confident handstand, badass pistol squats...
You would probably plan your workouts. If today is your leg day, you probably do NOT want to be doing benchpress for 60 min.
If you want to work on your flexibility, then you probably should not be on a treadmill for the next hour. You should be doing the exercises to help your body become more flexible.
As you learn to create a practice routine to continuously advance your English and your English communication skills, you explore different "workouts" and learn the exercises that you should be doing to target certain skills. You will also learn what exercises you should stop doing (because you've outgrown them) and what practices you should not stick to (because they take you further away from your goal).
If you want to learn to have more confidence in spontaneous conversations with people, you do not want to be doing grammar exercises or passively watching entertaining video lessons. You need to pick a different workout.
If you want to change the way you speak (your accent, your pitch, your choice of words), you should be doing the self-correction exercises out loud, instead of attending speaking clubs where you will be repeating what you already know and maintaining the level that you already have.
Learn to pick your "workouts" wisely.
Learn to enjoy them.
Then, learn to create your own exercises and your own workouts.
This is what the community of practice is about.
I need you to know that a structured, systematic approach to achieving native-like fluency exists. You can learn it, apply it, practice it together with other people, and you can teach yourself to continuously improve your skills without ever losing inspiration or feeling stuck for longer than a few days.
Join us and learn by doing.
Learn to create your own practice routines to achieve native-like fluency in English.
Read more and sign up here - https://cutt.ly/ACNAepY
My Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliatokar
Podcast - https://nataliatokar.me/#podcasts
Instagram - @nataliatokarr
FB - https://www.facebook.com/nataliatokarr
Blog - https://nataliatokar.me/blog
Free interactive exercises - https://nataliatokar.me/challenge
Community of Practice - https://community.nataliatokar.me
Think of it as a gym where you would go to do different workouts to train specific skills: endurance, strength, mobility, better wheel pose, more confident handstand, badass pistol squats...
You would probably plan your workouts. If today is your leg day, you probably do NOT want to be doing benchpress for 60 min.
If you want to work on your flexibility, then you probably should not be on a treadmill for the next hour. You should be doing the exercises to help your body become more flexible.
As you learn to create a practice routine to continuously advance your English and your English communication skills, you explore different "workouts" and learn the exercises that you should be doing to target certain skills. You will also learn what exercises you should stop doing (because you've outgrown them) and what practices you should not stick to (because they take you further away from your goal).
If you want to learn to have more confidence in spontaneous conversations with people, you do not want to be doing grammar exercises or passively watching entertaining video lessons. You need to pick a different workout.
If you want to change the way you speak (your accent, your pitch, your choice of words), you should be doing the self-correction exercises out loud, instead of attending speaking clubs where you will be repeating what you already know and maintaining the level that you already have.
Learn to pick your "workouts" wisely.
Learn to enjoy them.
Then, learn to create your own exercises and your own workouts.
This is what the community of practice is about.
I need you to know that a structured, systematic approach to achieving native-like fluency exists. You can learn it, apply it, practice it together with other people, and you can teach yourself to continuously improve your skills without ever losing inspiration or feeling stuck for longer than a few days.
Join us and learn by doing.
Learn to create your own practice routines to achieve native-like fluency in English.
Read more and sign up here - https://cutt.ly/ACNAepY
My Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliatokar
Podcast - https://nataliatokar.me/#podcasts
Instagram - @nataliatokarr
FB - https://www.facebook.com/nataliatokarr
Blog - https://nataliatokar.me/blog
Free interactive exercises - https://nataliatokar.me/challenge
Community of Practice - https://community.nataliatokar.me
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