Tip #3 - Time yourself. https://youtu.be/MmxJE1x43j8

Join 5 weeks of practice! We begin on April 1 in Moscow.

Participants will deliver a min of 7 presentations in English. Each participant receives high quality individual feedback on their structure, delivery, and their language skills. For upper-intermediate + level students.

There is no theory in this course. Just you, your presentations that you need to master in the real world, lots of practice and a ton of feedback that you can use to take your speaking & communication skills to a new level.

Join me on Luma. You will be seeing all upcoming events and in case you register, you will be getting reminders and calendar invites.

Here is our next online Workshop on May 4. Free for all the students of the Confident Business writing group and open for everyone who wants to practice https://lu.ma/i8uzs1x8?tk=OUQLne

An email workshop begins today! How to send emails of apology, thank you emails, and how to keep your email tone in check. All the students who took the writing course can enjoy the free ticket to the workshop. We start in 2 hours. Register here http://nataliatokar.me/email-workshop

this Sunday. Join us at 12:00 in Moscow https://fb.me/e/28H2oE68h

Join us tomorrow at 12:00 in Moscow
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1. You think your manager is overcomplicating things (instead of a 15-step process you're now expected to follow a 45-step protocol using outdated software). How do tell them that it will make everyone on the team feel resentful and stressed out?

2. How do you say NO to an introduction you don't want to make?

3. A Vendor You Don’t Want to Work With - how do you say NO gracefully?

4. You need to tell a client that you're increasing the fees.

5. You need to communicate to a client that whatever they ask for is impossible to deliver

6. You need to communicate to your management that you can't deliver expected results with the resources currently available.

We will be looking at these and more situations that people will bring to the session.

Join us on Sunday (May 16) and practice showing tough love and delivering tough messages in English🙂 We will be learning to use intonation, rhythm, and the right wording to arrive at mutual understanding, even in the most difficult circumstances.
https://fb.me/e/28H2oE68h

The free course "9 essential skills to achieve native-like fluency" starts tomorrow. If you already signed up, you will see the first lesson tomorrow. Remember to sign in and check your dashboard. If you would like to get on the waiting list for the next cohort in August, please leave your email address on the website. https://courses.nataliatokar.me/courses/9-essential-skills

New video. Keep your focus sharp. Tips for deliberate practice. https://youtu.be/r6X63_uGJPk

My story: from intermediate German to native-like fluency in English

What do you do when there are no more language courses, when you score as high as above the targeted level, and it doesn't mean a thing...? When you feel that you NEED and CAN do more than the system of language levels can offer.....

My idea of learning a language pivoted when I taught myself to learn the German language. Sometimes help comes from where you least expect it.
What's your story?

Part 2 is coming soon.https://youtu.be/CPvnEjigb2I

https://youtu.be/PAiSsW1tw5s

Three exercises to learn to THINK faster in English.

In this video, I also touch upon:
- Second language identity
- The art of being spontaneous in a foreign language
- Reading fiction: how to do it correctly to improve fluency

Which exercises have you tried?
Which exercises are you doing consistently?

https://youtu.be/13asPt8-5I8


I'm offering 60% off on both of my writing courses until October 5, 2021
Apply here to join a 4-month course "Learn to THINK in English" - https://cutt.ly/iEFQtUC
Apply here to join a 9-month program "Confident Business writing for non-native speakers" - https://cutt.ly/sEFQa2O

ALL courses offer individual feedback on all your work.

now, when major social networks, Google and Amazon services are down, this video is even more relevant https://youtu.be/dCb4jVX4Zo0

https://t.me/nataliatokar_russian
I started a new telegram channel in Russian. I used to post my thoughts on FB and Instagram, but now, when these services are down, I decided to post my thoughts in Russian here.

Please join if it's more convenient for you to read a blog here

How to see the beauty in the language? Learn to see the beauty of the thought. The beauty of intention. Read these excerpts from real letters that real people wrote to those who mattered to them.


The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.
Dwight Morrow to his son, Dwight Jr., 1925 | The Rotarian

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If you will trust my scheme of making a mental habit of doing the hard thing first, when you are absolutely fresh, and I mean doing the hardest thing first at the exact moment that you feel yourself fit for doing anything in any particular period, morning, afternoon or evening, you will go a long way toward mastering the principle of concentration.
F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter, 18 Apr 1938 | Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.
Djuna Barnes to Emily Coleman, 1960 | The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems

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Inhabitants of different and largely incommensurable worlds can live happily together—but only on condition that each recognizes the fact that the other’s world is different and has just as much right to exist and be lived in as his own. Once the other’s right to live where he or she is temperamentally and, no doubt, physiologically predestined to live is recognized, there can be something very stimulating and liberating about the experience of being joined in a loving relationship with somebody whose universe is radically unlike one’s own. It becomes possible for each of the partners to enlarge his own private universe by taking his stand vicariously, through empathy and intelligence, within the other’s territory and trying to see what reality looks like from that other vantage point. I remember a very touching passage in one of my grandfather’s letters about his own obtuseness—the obtuseness of an immensely intelligent man of the highest integrity—in relation to his wife’s insights, immediate, non-rational and almost infallible, into human character. Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean—which is precisely why it is possible for them to constitute a symbiotic organism superior to each of its components. But, alas, what is possible goes all too often unrealized and, instead of federating their two worlds, the temperamental aliens settle down to a cold war.
Aldous Huxley to Humphry Osmond, 6 May 1959 | Psychedelic Prophets The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond

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Listen: respect even the bad parts of yourself—respect above all the bad parts of yourself—for the love of God, don’t try to make yourself perfect—don’t copy an ideal, copy yourself—that is the only way to live.
Clarice Lispector to her sister, 6 Jan 1948 | Why This World

We meet in Moscow on October 10, 2021. Please join the practice. It'll be a pleasure to work with you in real time https://fb.me/e/SadVUt0D

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October 10, 2021. 12:00 - 14:00
Moscow, m. Aeroport.

Tomorrow at 12:00 in Moscow.

We meet every month to practice and improve our communication skills in English.



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