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If you're new to the methodology for achieving Native-Like Fluency in English, here are the links to my FREE courses and exercises to help you get started.
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Free courses
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"9 Essential Skills to Achieve Native-Like Fluency"
A free course that will help you learn the fundamentals of a different approach to learning. I will walk you through all the nine skills. You will learn the theory behind each skill and do creative exercises with me to practice each of them. The course is free and doesn't imply individual feedback on every exercise. However, I will answer your questions if you ask them in the community. To access the course, click here.
FREE exercises to improve your listening skills (based on famous movie scenes)
THE BEST exercise to help you hear 100% of what native speakers say in movies and in real life is The Synchronization Exercise. Subscribe to this telegram channel and start practicing. You can also watch the episodes on Youtube.
Free exercises in the Community of Practice (for Upper-Intermediate+ level students and ESL teachers)
You don't need to be a paying member to access the exercises below.
However, you need to be a paying member to request feedback.
Articles
- English Articles. An example exercise (easy, intermediate, and advanced options)
- Articles. Do this quiz to check yourself
Brevity
- NEW episode on BREVITY. What is it and how to practice it
- How to practice Brevity
- How to find the main idea of a text? Demonstration
Clarity in Speaking
- VIDEO: Ramble it toward CLARITY. Achieving clarity in spontaneous conversations
- What is Integrity? Connection? Vulnerability? Perfectionism? Look at these definitions and practice clarity
- Exercise: What is "grit"? Let's practice #clarity, #brevity, and #attentiveness
- Exercise: Connect your Ideas in English to Achieve Clarity. Spontaneous & Prepared Speech
- STRONG VERBS and how to use them
- How to replace Weak Verbs with Strong Verbs. Examples
- A great exercise to improve your spontaneous speaking skills in English
- SPOKE or WAS SPEAKING?
Listening
Practice Routine. Main principles
Tips to build your Practice Routine. A collection of short audio messages.
Pronunciation
S or Z? Does it sound like ExcuSe or ExcuZe? CloZe or CloSe?
The Rhythm of English
- FREE exercise for all to practice using the rhythm of English and delivering the meaning
- Neither UP nor DOWN. Gliding forward in English 🤨 What does this even sound like?
- arTIculate or articuLAte? wAInd or wInd? More confusing words and how they should be stressed
- Exercise: read a quote out loud and find the FOCUS word
- A quote worth reading today
- Yulia Reads - a new reading video from a student
- ONLY three minutes of reading out loud. Three liberating truths
- EXERCISE: Is there a Santa Claus? What do you say to an 8-year old? Read out loud with me
Variety
Vocabulary
- How to make good vocabulary stick? Demonstration
- Do this exercise to improve your Listening Skills and Build Your Vocabulary. (For the coaches who want to work with English-speaking clients and everyone who is learning to tell their story in English )
Writing
Free self-study resources on my website
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The sections available today:
Section 1: The basics: Exercise, Feedback, and Practice Routine
Section 2: Hear and Understand EVERY single word
Section 3: The Fundamentals of a Practice Routine
Section 4: Reading Out Loud
Section 5: Spontaneous Speaking Skills
Section 6: My Free Course: 9 essential skills to achieve native-like fluency
If you are not sure what "practice routine" means and where to begin, start here.
Free interactive exercises on my website
You can start practicing right here, on my website. All the video forms are anonymous. I do not collect your data. I will not ask you to leave your email address in exchange for an exercise. You can do the same exercise as many times as you want.
However, if you feel stuck and you do want to contact me, you can leave your email address and your question in the text field (available in every video exercise), and I will get back to you.
The video instructions are no longer than two minutes. I recommend you do each exercise a few times. To learn about the power of iterations (as opposed to repetitions), watch this video
- Self-correction
- Spontaneous speaking
- Attentiveness
- Vocabulary (coming soon)
- Clarity
- Articles
- Rhythm
- Brevity
- Writing
Free exercises in my Instagram stories
You can find them in the highlighted stories- Reading
- Read aloud
- Vocabulary
- Writing
- Many more various exercises
The core of each exercise is developing YOUR skills rather than learning the rules of English.
My methodology is human-centered, and my job is to show you that native-like fluency is possible, the method to achieve it exists, and real people have already done it. You can do it too.
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