🎉NEW! A new interactive practice routine for everyone who needs focused, structured practice in the community of competitive learners … and who dares to achieve native-like fluency.
The Community of Practice is going to change on October 10, 2022.
There will be more cooperation, more results, more focused work, and less wasted effort.
We’re adding weekly focused practice challenges where micro-effort brings wow-results. Every week we choose ONE focus and do ONE exercise to show you how the methodology works, and how you can learn to apply it in your life situations.
If you joined and felt lost, overwhelmed, and clueless relative to where to begin…. I have exciting news for you:
1. I’m releasing a new video course in the next couple of days. If you’re a member, you can get yourself on the waiting list today. It’s free, and it is designed to help new members navigate the community.
2. I’m launching Weekly Focused Practice tomorrow! To read more about it, swipe ➡️. If you’re an active member, you have been already added to the space. If you’re new, join now and try it for free (3-day trial).
3. You choose what you pay for the first month in the community after your trial (you will see this opportunity if you take the video course)
The membership tiers and the prices will change on October 10, 2022.
You can upgrade/downgrade any time.
You can cancel any time too.
The new conditions will apply starting from October 10, 2022.
If you are already a member, or if you join the Community before October 10, you can keep the legacy tariff (which is only $30/mo and $300/year || 2500 RUB/mo or 27500 RUB/year). It gives you all the privileges of the Daring Learner + tier, which is $65/mo.
Join today, start your 7-day free trial, try the new weekly challenges, and see if you want to stay and contribute!
You choose what to pay for the first month because we’re building a community, where everyone contributes, not a service where everybody pays.
We do NOT study the language here. We practice it, just like you practice any skill. What the community does is it helps you organize a structured, deliberate practice routine that brings you JOY and brings you closer to native-like fluency in English every day when you practice. How do I know? Because I’ve been doing these exercises myself. You can listen to my results on Youtube, you read my texts on my blog (I write everything myself), you can join my programs…
You’re basically looking at my own practice routine when you browse through the creative exercises. They have been tested by me and many other real people who dare to set higher standards for themselves. I don’t need to prove that they work. I need to keep my doors open for people who are looking for something real and practical, for those who are understand that it takes guts to change their existing speaking habits. if you need feedback on your effort. Once you become a member, you get mentored by me daily.
The Community of Practice is going to change on October 10, 2022.
There will be more cooperation, more results, more focused work, and less wasted effort.
We’re adding weekly focused practice challenges where micro-effort brings wow-results. Every week we choose ONE focus and do ONE exercise to show you how the methodology works, and how you can learn to apply it in your life situations.
If you joined and felt lost, overwhelmed, and clueless relative to where to begin…. I have exciting news for you:
1. I’m releasing a new video course in the next couple of days. If you’re a member, you can get yourself on the waiting list today. It’s free, and it is designed to help new members navigate the community.
2. I’m launching Weekly Focused Practice tomorrow! To read more about it, swipe ➡️. If you’re an active member, you have been already added to the space. If you’re new, join now and try it for free (3-day trial).
3. You choose what you pay for the first month in the community after your trial (you will see this opportunity if you take the video course)
The membership tiers and the prices will change on October 10, 2022.
• Bold Explorer (access to the creative exercises only + feedback) • Daring Learner (access to all exercises, lessons, workshops, events, 50% off all the SPRINTs and feedback) • Daring Learner PLUS (all the benefits of Daring Learner + Weekly Focused Practice + Resource Library + Exclusive accountability calls with these members only) • Team Player (only Weekly Focused Practice where there is a new task every day and a new focus every week. You can suggest your own content, focus, and exercise. You can participate in as many challenges as you like) • Gritty Mindset (access to EVERYTHING, including SPRINTs and RESUME course for life, 90-min sessions with me every 6 months, 50% off all the future courses, access to the Resource Library, help with building YOUR practice routine) You can upgrade/downgrade any time.
You can cancel any time too.
The new conditions will apply starting from October 10, 2022.
If you are already a member, or if you join the Community before October 10, you can keep the legacy tariff (which is only $30/mo and $300/year || 2500 RUB/mo or 27500 RUB/year). It gives you all the privileges of the Daring Learner + tier, which is $65/mo.
Join today, start your 7-day free trial, try the new weekly challenges, and see if you want to stay and contribute!
You choose what to pay for the first month because we’re building a community, where everyone contributes, not a service where everybody pays.
We do NOT study the language here. We practice it, just like you practice any skill. What the community does is it helps you organize a structured, deliberate practice routine that brings you JOY and brings you closer to native-like fluency in English every day when you practice. How do I know? Because I’ve been doing these exercises myself. You can listen to my results on Youtube, you read my texts on my blog (I write everything myself), you can join my programs…
You’re basically looking at my own practice routine when you browse through the creative exercises. They have been tested by me and many other real people who dare to set higher standards for themselves. I don’t need to prove that they work. I need to keep my doors open for people who are looking for something real and practical, for those who are understand that it takes guts to change their existing speaking habits. if you need feedback on your effort. Once you become a member, you get mentored by me daily.
Join before October 10 and save 55%.
If you would like to pay in RUB, start your free trial just like the website suggests. You will find the instructions to send your contribution in RUB inside the new video course (and I highly recommend you take it!) https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/how-things-work-here/how-to-use-the-community-and-where-to-begin
If you would like to pay in RUB, start your free trial just like the website suggests. You will find the instructions to send your contribution in RUB inside the new video course (and I highly recommend you take it!) https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/how-things-work-here/how-to-use-the-community-and-where-to-begin
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The entire collection of FREE exercises
At the center of each exercise is YOU rather than the rules of English.
My methodology is human-centered, and my job is to show you that native-like fluency is possible, that the method to achieve it exists, and that real people have already done it. You can do it too.
https://nataliatokar.me/blog/tpost/i1k6dm59a1-the-entire-collection-of-free-exercices
At the center of each exercise is YOU rather than the rules of English.
My methodology is human-centered, and my job is to show you that native-like fluency is possible, that the method to achieve it exists, and that real people have already done it. You can do it too.
https://nataliatokar.me/blog/tpost/i1k6dm59a1-the-entire-collection-of-free-exercices
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The Entire Collection of FREE Exercices
Interactive exercise to help you get to know the methodology and start practicing
I sent everyone an email with Three Concrete Ideas and a bunch of resources to start practicing for free. If you don't receive my emails, you can sign up here https://nataliatokar.me/sign-up
To master "something", you need will and skill. If you've been following my work, you must have will. If you are looking for ways to achieve native-like fluency (which is not for everyone), you certainly have it. As for skill, you need some help and guidance here, which is what my work is all about. I can't work with someone who has no will.
It all starts with a thought that probably helped you get your own thoughts moving in the right direction for you. But reading a good thought is not enough. To possess "skill", you need a)help and b) a healthy appetite for work.
"Work" is not really work when you are genuinely interested in what you're doing and when the process of work brings immense JOY.
To achieve native-like fluency, you need to become a better learner, i.e. a daring, creative, and curious learner who can combine desire, will, and a good appetite for work.
These are the essential ingredients to mastery.
Start small and start today. You can join the community of practice to get help and guidance from me until 📌October 10 and claim all the privileges for early adopters.
Start your 7-day free trial, no credit card is needed to begin. Take the free video course. And if you choose to become a founding member before Oct 10, you will save 55%.
To understand what I mean about "beginners", watch my Youtube video "Learn English by embracing a beginner's mindset. A message for advanced students"
I look forward to practicing with you!
Everyone can achieve mastery, but never by setting linear goals. Mastery is about non-linear thinking and recreating yourself daily.
Read the full post here
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/to-achieve-mastery-you-need-will-and-skill
It all starts with a thought that probably helped you get your own thoughts moving in the right direction for you. But reading a good thought is not enough. To possess "skill", you need a)help and b) a healthy appetite for work.
"Work" is not really work when you are genuinely interested in what you're doing and when the process of work brings immense JOY.
To achieve native-like fluency, you need to become a better learner, i.e. a daring, creative, and curious learner who can combine desire, will, and a good appetite for work.
These are the essential ingredients to mastery.
Start small and start today. You can join the community of practice to get help and guidance from me until 📌October 10 and claim all the privileges for early adopters.
Start your 7-day free trial, no credit card is needed to begin. Take the free video course. And if you choose to become a founding member before Oct 10, you will save 55%.
To understand what I mean about "beginners", watch my Youtube video "Learn English by embracing a beginner's mindset. A message for advanced students"
I look forward to practicing with you!
Everyone can achieve mastery, but never by setting linear goals. Mastery is about non-linear thinking and recreating yourself daily.
Read the full post here
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/to-achieve-mastery-you-need-will-and-skill
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To achieve mastery, you need will and skill | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
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I am passionate about mastery and virtuosity.
To achieve mastery, you need to start somewhere. Most likely, you'll start at the very beginning, even though you might be thinking that you're somewhere in the middle, way ahead of "ne...
I am passionate about mastery and virtuosity.
To achieve mastery, you need to start somewhere. Most likely, you'll start at the very beginning, even though you might be thinking that you're somewhere in the middle, way ahead of "ne...
See more pictures and read the full post about the Baking Party that I hosted yesterday here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/baking-party-savory-fall-baking-october-8-2022
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Baking Party: Savory Fall Baking. October 8, 2022 | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
[IMG_2798.jpg]Thank you so much for being there and making the day so beautiful. It was a blast! ❤️
We baked three things, we spoke English, we practiced Creative Writing, we did a few exercises to define our values and organize a practice routine ...
We baked three things, we spoke English, we practiced Creative Writing, we did a few exercises to define our values and organize a practice routine ...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodor Roosevelt
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This amazing person will coach you and help work on your writing skills starting from October 14.
Our guest editor is a native speaker and has 10+ experience of writing copy, editing books, and managing a marketing team in a publishing house. I am so looking forward to writing more because now I know that she will read and help me edit my work. And she will do it for you too!!! Make sure you join the new Creative Writing Practice on Octiber 14!!!
We will write 8 texts over the course of the next 8 weeks.
Only one text per week.
One editing session per week where everyone will be learning from very personal and detailed feedback on their work!
It's what I call the next level. If you need to take your writing skills to a whole new level, learn from the best, anf give it the best you can.
At least that's what I'm going to do in the next 8 weeks because I do need to write better.
The course will take place in the community of practice. Learn more here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/creative-writing-2-0
Our guest editor is a native speaker and has 10+ experience of writing copy, editing books, and managing a marketing team in a publishing house. I am so looking forward to writing more because now I know that she will read and help me edit my work. And she will do it for you too!!! Make sure you join the new Creative Writing Practice on Octiber 14!!!
We will write 8 texts over the course of the next 8 weeks.
Only one text per week.
One editing session per week where everyone will be learning from very personal and detailed feedback on their work!
It's what I call the next level. If you need to take your writing skills to a whole new level, learn from the best, anf give it the best you can.
At least that's what I'm going to do in the next 8 weeks because I do need to write better.
The course will take place in the community of practice. Learn more here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/calendar/creative-writing-2-0
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Creative Writing 2.0. Editing practice with a native speaker | Native-Like Fluency. The Community of Practice
This is a finite writing challenge for non-native speakers who want to get serious with their writing practice and receive professional feedback.
We will be writing ONE text a week.
The duration of the program is 8 weeks.
Each week we will meet online...
We will be writing ONE text a week.
The duration of the program is 8 weeks.
Each week we will meet online...
The best advice is cliché advice.
Phrases like
And a lot more…are clichés.
People discard them immediately because they have heard such advice many times. In fact, they’ve heard it so many times that they don’t hear or see it any more.
And when they look at it again, they say “It doesn’t apply to me because I already know this”.
But it does apply.
Clichés contain the wisdom of many generations. The problem is not that they are cliché, but that people are not willing to listen.
If you want people to hear your message (which probably can be put in one simple piece of advice, such as one of the cliché phrases above🙂), tell them a story.
If you’re not good at storytelling, learn the skill.
People learn best when they make their own conclusions.
Practice giving good advice to yourself in writing. Practice explaining to people what you mean in writing, over the phone, in conversations, and on camera. The more ways you learn to deliver your ideas, the more confirmable you feel with different media, the more confident you become as a communicator.
You know a lot of cliché advice.
Now try to apply it in your life.
You will see that there’s no “cliché method” to apply that “cliché advice”, and that’s why it’s the best advice🙂
I choose to learn to listen so that I don’t discard important messages from life.
I choose to learn to self-regulate your own thought.
I choose to learn to take action so that my thoughts, words, and actions align.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”
— James Allen
Phrases like
• Where there is a will, there is a way • Everything happens for a reason • Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching • How Do You Eat an Elephant? One Bite at a Time • You Can’t Learn to Swim Without Getting in the Water • Opportunity Doesn’t Knock Twice • It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose, it’s How You Play the GameAnd a lot more…are clichés.
People discard them immediately because they have heard such advice many times. In fact, they’ve heard it so many times that they don’t hear or see it any more.
And when they look at it again, they say “It doesn’t apply to me because I already know this”.
But it does apply.
Clichés contain the wisdom of many generations. The problem is not that they are cliché, but that people are not willing to listen.
If you want people to hear your message (which probably can be put in one simple piece of advice, such as one of the cliché phrases above🙂), tell them a story.
If you’re not good at storytelling, learn the skill.
People learn best when they make their own conclusions.
Practice giving good advice to yourself in writing. Practice explaining to people what you mean in writing, over the phone, in conversations, and on camera. The more ways you learn to deliver your ideas, the more confirmable you feel with different media, the more confident you become as a communicator.
You know a lot of cliché advice.
Now try to apply it in your life.
You will see that there’s no “cliché method” to apply that “cliché advice”, and that’s why it’s the best advice🙂
I choose to learn to listen so that I don’t discard important messages from life.
I choose to learn to self-regulate your own thought.
I choose to learn to take action so that my thoughts, words, and actions align.
“All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.”
— James Allen
Goodreads
A quote from As a Man Thinketh
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
This is me doing my workout on the parking lot next to my airbnb😁
You don’t always need a gym, at least I don’t need it to do a good workout. You need understanding that physical work and physical exercise is the cheapest and the most effective recipe for healthy inner state.
A lot of students work hard and spend 2-3 hours a day studying and concentrating mentally when they sit down to do their homework… and they forget their body needs.
Learning does not happen only in your brain because you’re not only a brain. You have a physical body, you have emotions, you have a soul, you have your energy field, and you have the ability and the power to self-regulate your learning process, your health, your emotional state, your energy…
Remember that any physical work will improve your mental concentration. If you feel tired after studying, preparing for an exam or doing some intellectual work, hop on a bike 🚴 and ride far😊 Go for a run. Do some push-ups. Do a good workout. Break a sweat. You will feel better on a physical, emotional, mental, and energy level.
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What research says: “Along with better concentration and overall improved brain functioning, Mary Carmichael reports that physical exercise has also been linked to a lower risk of neurological and cognitive disorders, including ADHD and Alzheimer’s.
The 2008 book Brain Exercises to Cure ADHD, written by Dr. Amnon Gimpel of Israel’s Brain Power Clinic, explains how physical activity can help treat or even prevent the symptoms of ADHD in children and adults. According to Gimpel, activities that combine physical and mental focus, such as yoga, dancing and martial arts, may be more effective at improving ADHD symptoms.
EuroPace recommends that if you are finding it difficult to concentrate throughout the day then you should try to incorporate 30 minutes of exercise into your day.”
You don’t always need a gym, at least I don’t need it to do a good workout. You need understanding that physical work and physical exercise is the cheapest and the most effective recipe for healthy inner state.
A lot of students work hard and spend 2-3 hours a day studying and concentrating mentally when they sit down to do their homework… and they forget their body needs.
Learning does not happen only in your brain because you’re not only a brain. You have a physical body, you have emotions, you have a soul, you have your energy field, and you have the ability and the power to self-regulate your learning process, your health, your emotional state, your energy…
Remember that any physical work will improve your mental concentration. If you feel tired after studying, preparing for an exam or doing some intellectual work, hop on a bike 🚴 and ride far😊 Go for a run. Do some push-ups. Do a good workout. Break a sweat. You will feel better on a physical, emotional, mental, and energy level.
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What research says: “Along with better concentration and overall improved brain functioning, Mary Carmichael reports that physical exercise has also been linked to a lower risk of neurological and cognitive disorders, including ADHD and Alzheimer’s.
The 2008 book Brain Exercises to Cure ADHD, written by Dr. Amnon Gimpel of Israel’s Brain Power Clinic, explains how physical activity can help treat or even prevent the symptoms of ADHD in children and adults. According to Gimpel, activities that combine physical and mental focus, such as yoga, dancing and martial arts, may be more effective at improving ADHD symptoms.
EuroPace recommends that if you are finding it difficult to concentrate throughout the day then you should try to incorporate 30 minutes of exercise into your day.”
See what students wrote during the 7-min Creative Writing Practice last week. Click to read the post
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/students-write
https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/updates/students-write