Natalia Tokar | Native-Like Fluency

IN the street or ON the street? See the full post with examples and the links here https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/dailydose/on-the-street-or-in-the-street

Moving toward mastery is more about UNlearning the old patters, and not so much about LEARNING more new words "A person who is learning to type by hunting and pecking on a keyboard further entrenches that method every time they use it. It won’t spontaneously evolve into touch typing, regardless of how much they practice. Similarly, pronunciation often “fossilizes” in language learning, likely because a “good enough” articulation of the language’s phonemes becomes ingrained through repetitive practice and becomes automatic. This makes you more fluent, but it means shaking off a bad accent is even harder than learning new words! In this account of the intermediate plateau, our lack of progress is due to getting ever-more proficient in mediocre methods. Progress requires interrupting this natural process, fine-tuning our performance, and then rebuilding automaticity on the parts...Essentially, we’re not trying to add to our knowledge so much as weed inefficiencies from our well-learned routines." Read the full article here https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2023/01/03/intermediate-plateau/

Learn from your mistakes. Don't run away from them. In the community of practice, you will find the exercises to achieve native-like fluency in English and acquire better learning strategies. You will fail. You will make mistakes. So what? You will also receive feedback on all your work and find the best practice routine for yourself. If there's no practice routine, there is no consistent improvement. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently". Henry Ford. Become a member and practice with me: https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/how-things-work-here/how-to-use-the-community-and-where-to-begin

https://youtu.be/kx7FgjR8wuI Do you see the difference between iterations and repetitions?

A fragment from a FREE video course DARING LEARNER that you can enroll in today. I created the community of practice not to sell you content, but to practice together. I want to help advanced language learners, just like myself, to move toward native-like fluency in English. This means you have to stop learning more ABOUT English and start practicing IN English. I design creative exercises community members in accordance with my methodology. Everyone is welcome to join. In this free welcome video course, I explain how to make use of the community of practice and how to become a better learner. Enroll today. The course is free for all community members. All you need to start is sign up https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/welcome-course/

How to find the answer to your questions about grammar or sentence structure if you're chronically not sure. Watch this video to see the demonstration of a very raw and real process of learning. You don't need to be ready. You don't need to be camera ready. I never am when I teach or learn. You don't need to have all the answers. You need to be willing to find them though! It's not the number of mistakes that matters. It's the speed of correction. You will never get to the point where you have learned everything. But you CAN get to the point where you have the confidence that you can quickly navigate the unknown to find the answers that you're looking for. One of the key skills of a daring learner is that s/he CAN learn in situations of extreme uncertainty. Clarity is born out of confusion or cognitive incongruity. The new is never certain, but it has all the answers if you dare to go right into it.

A star is born to shine ✨⭐️🌟💫 It never questions life or its own faith in the higher order of things. It can’t do otherwise, and so it shines, giving people hope and guiding them in the direction of love and beauty. On my birthday, I want to just be because I know I have always belonged here. Your parents gave you the biggest gift - LIFE. The next biggest gift is what you give to yourself: the decision that you make about how to live this life and what to become. Every person has immense potential. Everyone belongs here. The gift of learning is understanding and unfolding your own potential. Living up to your own potential is the purpose. There’s never a purpose without joy, just like there are no stars that shine for nothing or for no one.

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https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/creative-writing-practice-2-0/ In this Creative Writing SPRINT!, sessions are available as replays. Every participant received feedback on every text they write

How can editing be fun??? It rarely is.... but it is always about GROWTH. If you haven't tried these Creative Writing SPRINTs where you get caring feedback on your writing skills in English, where you get support and guidance from a coach, where you're asked to edit your texts over and over again, they are so worth it! Only practice and feedback bring results. If you practice a lot and don't receive high-quality feedback or don't give yourself feedback, you'll be soon demotivated to proceed since you can't really see or measure your progress. If you receive feedback (only praise or only criticism) in real-life situations and don't have a practice routine to work on your skills, you depend on other people's opinions about your performance. You don't get to see yourself. You believe what others say you are or you are not. Start a practice routine and decide whose feedback you want. Ask for it and use it to self-correct the behaviors that prevent you from moving forward.

From Mark Manson’s blog