Natalia Tokar | Native-Like Fluency

Exercise #111 includes a 3-min movie scene (with and without subtitles), detailed instructions, THE BOOK that inspired the movie, and individual feedback on your work. You can teach yourself to understand anything and any accent. You just need to know what you're doing and in what order.

EXERCISE #111. HOW TO UNDERSTAND EVERY SINGLE WORD, EVEN IF THEY SPEAK WITH SOUTHERN ACCENTS? Self-test your understanding: can you hear every word of what they say? Do you understand what's going on?

A new exercise in the community of practice. Let's take it step by step. It includes instructions, the link to the real-time video lesson, video feedback given to the student who inspired this exercise, and of course - feedback to everyone who does it https://community.nataliatokar.me/c/exercises/exercise-110

WHAT IS GOOD FEEDBACK AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT? I'll be sending an email with a video example of what feedback can look like to help students learn better. It's the feedback that I gave to one of the students on her reading. How do you SEE what you read? And what is sentenсe stress? I'm going to show you how I work with texts in this video. I'll send it only to my email subscribers. It's not for social media. If you don't receive my emails, subscribe here https://nataliatokar.me/sign-up The email will be sent tonight.

Do this exercise with me to practice CLARITY https://youtu.be/9kJOV3IpLEg

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.