Day 1: Discovering a New Way to Fluency

Foreign. Hey. Hey, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to the first day in the English Fluency Festival. I am beside myself. I'm super excited. I can't wait to share with you all the great content that we have for today. And if you're new to me, then hello and welcome. I have to tell you that when we start something big, we start with dancing. So I'm going to put on some music and I'm inviting you to shake it with me until everyone joins. And let's do it. Say hi in the comments in the meantime. Okay. As we're all dancing, say hi in the comments. Tell me where you're from and one thing that you are feeling right now. Okay. Are you ready? Let's do it. Give me a thumbs up if you can hear it. I can't see you, but I can see your comments, so let me know that you can hear it, Because if you can't hear it, it's gonna be really weird because I'm gonna. I'm gonna be dancing. All right, everyone. Hello. We have people from Bangladesh here. We have people from. Wait, it's not S.C. Giveaway, Everybody. And we're slowly going to take it down a bit so we can get started. Okay, so let's get started. Super thrilled. Let's see how many people we have here. We have 736 people in counting. So we're waiting for everyone else to join and. Yes. Okay, good idea to start with music. Yeah, Julia, we're always starting with music here, so requests for tomorrow's live are accepted. If you have any suggestions for a video or a music piece or a song. I'm so excited I can't even think of words. Okay, you guys, let's get started. Today we are going to start. This is day one of the English Fluency Festival, and this is our annual event. We also did it last year. It was called the New Sound of English. And today we decided to call it the English Fluency Festival because we wanted something even more festive and more exciting. And let me tell you this, it's going to be festive and exciting. There is a lot going on. I'm going to tell you everything that is going to happen in the upcoming week. Before that, we start the core training, so you know what to expect. And I'll answer questions now and at the end, so feel free to connect with me. The team is in the chat as well. They will be answering you and that's it. So I'm super excited to begin and welcome. That's the first thing I have to tell you, welcome. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it and I really appreciate you. I know you're busy. I've seen a lot of comments saying, I'm so busy. I have all these things happening, but I'm going to make it or at least do my best, which is incredible because we're all busy. Things get in the way. We have to set an intention and we have to believe that it will be possible. Do whatever you can. The most important thing is the core training Monday through Friday. And after that, you have all the rest of the things that we included in the event. I'm going to go through it in just a second. But first and foremost, we are here to celebrate your English. Wherever you are at here is something important. I was rousing through your posts and comments on the website and on Facebook, and I've noticed that a lot of people have said things like, I'm so, you know, I don't know. This is so many people with a really good level. I don't know if I can fit in in here. And I'm just gonna make sure that I don't have any private comments telling me that I have something on me. So a lot of people telling me that they can't really participate because they're afraid that their English level is not good enough. So here's the thing. We are here to celebrate you and your English no matter where you are at, okay? Whatever stage you're in. I don't do levels, so I'm not going to tell you that you're a beginner or advanced or whatever, because I believe, and we'll talk about it during the training, that people have different levels or, you know, different levels of fluency based on the situation, circumstances, and state of mind. So I don't want to judge you or your level. I don't want you to judge yourself and label yourself. I just want you to be and take whatever you can from this training. And the most important thing is to be appreciative and celebrate what you have already accomplished. The fact that you're here is already amazing. So let's take a moment to celebrate that. Now, let's talk about what to expect. Okay. Throughout the program. So, as I told you, the first thing is the core training Monday through Friday. That is going to be with me, and Sunday we have two coaching sessions. That means that you're going to get to work with me individually. If you sign up for a hot seat, that means that you'll be called. You can sign up for it you'll be called, and then you and I will work together one on one, and I'll help you with whatever you need. Mindset, learning strategy, pronunciation. You have me for 15 minutes or 10 minutes or however time we'll have. But the Monday through Friday training is going to be live and it's going to be wherever you're watching this right now on Facebook or on the website. Now, let me know in the chat if you're watching this on Facebook or on the website, because right now I can see this big platform that. Yes, okay, you can see, I can see your name, but it would be really interested for me to know where you're watching this. Okay, so that Saturday is off. You have other things to do to catch up on the content. That's the first thing and most important thing. This is where I'm going to deliver you my all the elements and all the components that are required for you to make a real transformation. And it's based on things that have worked for me and things that have worked for thousands and thousands of my students. So it's something that I've created along the years, and every year I improved it and changed it and tweaked it until, you know, we have reached this, what we have here. And I think that it really is a really great formula for you to follow. Okay. We have website, Website, some on Facebook. Okay, cool, Great. So feel free to use the chat. I'm going to see whatever you're posting in the chat and the comments below the video. I'm going to see them after. And the team is going to be there, too, to help you and answer questions. If you have. Sorry. Implementation workshops. Implementation workshops are going to be delivered on Zoom by my coaches. My coaches, Jelena and Christina. They are going to help you process all the information that you've gained during those live trainings with me. So they will help you go through the workbook, ask you leading questions, answer questions, and go sometimes a little deeper, especially when it comes to pronunciation, because I'm not going to have the time to teach, you know, sounds or all the things related to sounds, and they are going to help you with that. They are incredible and I can't wait for you to meet them. Then we have practice groups. Practice groups are also with my coaches and practice groups is a way, an innovative way to implement my method called the pronunciation confidence method. I'm going to teach you all about this method tomorrow. Building pronunciation confidence. That's day two. So these practice groups are an interesting way to show you how to put what you learn here into practice. It's like put it into practice to take action. Okay, next up, we have conversation groups. Speaking time is key, as you'll see later today. Speaking time is key, especially around varied subjects, so you can put into practice what you learn. And therefore, we have an option for you to join a conversation group every single day with our hosts. They are incredible. They've been doing this for years, and they are going to break you into smaller groups and rooms. Zoom is amazing in that sense. And you'll have the opportunity of putting, you know, producing the language as much as possible. We have sprints. I hope you've already seen the sprint. Have you done your sprint today? Let me know in the chat because I'm curious. I've seen that a few hundreds of you have done the sprint, which is amazing on Facebook and on the website. So let me know if you did it. If not, do it. It's really good to start the day. Or you can also do it before the live training. So you're kind of like in the zone. In the English zone. In the English pronunciation zone. Okay, so sprints, that's something else that we have. What else? Yes, yes, yes. Loved it. Okay. Someone doesn't know what the sprints are. So if you're on Facebook, I think you're on Facebook. You could just search in the search bar. Sprint. And then you will see the sprint for today. Yes. Okay, good. Yes, I've done the sprint. Amazing. Okay, good. Challenges every day or every other day, depending on how much work you have to do. Every day we are going to post a different challenge on Facebook, ask you a question and ask you to make a video about something, maybe about something that we are teaching here. Maybe a tongue twister. Sing a song. I don't know. I don't want to promise, but there will be songs involved. So pay attention to the challenges. Everything is going to be in the email that we send you and prizes. So we have daily festival prizes. Every day you can enter a raffle where we giveaway prizes. So today I'm not going to tell you what it is. Today I'm going to tell you how to participate in the raffle. So it's pretty easy. It's an Instagram raffle if you don't have Instagram. I'm sorry, it's going to be on Instagram because it's easier for me to check it and to get access to all the people who participate. So the first thing is you need to follow me on Instagram. So I can see you Hadar Accentsway. Then share a story or a post with a. With a picture of you or the workbook or this video or the Facebook group, whatever you want. Or a notebook and say something about. You don't even have to say something about it, but you can share something about the festival and about this experience. Maybe an insight, something that you've learned that day. And two important things. One, you have to put the hashtag fluency fest. And two, you need to tag me so I can see it and find all the people. And then we'll do a raffle at the end of the day. Okay? And every day I will announce the winner of the previous day. So you have from today until, let's say 3pm tomorrow my time, 8am New York time. So all throughout the day Today, the next 23 hours, you can post and then we will announce the winner tomorrow. You want to know what you're going to win? If you post today, you're going to win the Sprint Master. So if you like the sprints, then we have a program called the sprint master. 30 different sprints for a very effective daily practice. It's the value of it is $97 and you can get it for free if you participate and win the raffle. Okay, so just to make it a little more interesting. Yes. Is there a workbook for this class? Yes, there is. I sent it over email. If you haven't seen it on email. So, like, check your inbox. I'm going to talk about what you need to do, but maybe someone from the team can share it in the comments as well. Okay, so next, how do we communicate? A few things I want you to remember. And we're going to be done with this housekeeping really, really quickly. So first of all, email, okay? Make sure it goes into your inbox. If you haven't gotten an email from me 15 minutes before the live, then maybe you're not getting my emails. That's too bad because that's how we communicate. That's where all the links are, all the announcements and everything. So sometimes it goes into spam or the promotions tab. So what you need to do is go to your promotions tab and move it into your inbox. Like this takes a little longer, right? So you just drag it into your inbox and then you'll be getting my emails. Same thing. If my email goes into spam, the next thing that we have is website. Okay? You have the website hadarshomesh.comevent-main. You're not going to remember it I'm just going to say it anyway, but the links are everywhere. Over there. You have everything you need. The replays, the sprints, the live broadcasts, updates, schedule. So everything is there. So every time you feel lost, and I was like, I don't know what to do now. Go to the website. The events in the calendar are shown in your time zone. So no confusion here. I usually use the New York time zone, Eastern time. So this is how I do it. And this is the website. If you haven't seen it, hello, website. You, you, website, and the calendar. You can sync it with Google Calendar and with your Apple Calendar. Yes. Okay, next up, we have. Sorry, have all this. The last thing is the Facebook group. If you're watching this on Facebook, so you're already on Facebook, but we also have the group where we do the challenges and we communicate things there as well. You have the events in the Facebook group, so if you prefer to stick with the Facebook group, then it's fine. Ground rules. We lift people up, right? We don't bring them down. That's the most important thing. Okay. Lift people up. Lift everyone up. So support, encouragement, positive vibes, positive mindset. No criticism, no judging. No, your English is better than mine. No, my English is better than yours. I haven't seen it just yet. I'm not saying it because I've seen, seen it so far. You've been amazing in the group. Super supportive, super engaging. But just keep that in mind. No private messages, please, and no friends or requests, please, unless you've established a really, really strong connection during the event and you can do it after the event. We really, really try to keep people's safety. It happens often where people get a lot of private messages after posting a video or something. It's a little overwhelming and deterring. So people tend to not post after that. I do not want it to happen. Please, please respect other people. Don't send them messages. You can communicate with them in the comments below the video. Okay. Thank you so much for keeping these rules. It's, you know, that's what's going to make the community better for everyone. Okay. Are you ready? Let's talk about why you're here, if you're here, and if you signed up for this event. Wait a minute. I need to drink some water. Of course I can't. I left my cup all the way over there and then I put on my mic and then I couldn't go anywhere. So now I have. I just have the bottle. It's going to mess up my. My, my lipstick okay, while you're here, let me just take a look at the comments. Ready? Okay. Ready. Good. You're ready. Put yes in the comments if you're ready. Yes. I can't see you and it's really weird. There are like 1300 people watching this live. Incredible. From around the world and I can't see you. So I can see the comments moving and then I know that you're with me and I can see. Okay. A lot of yeses. Pamela. Thank you. Carmen, thank you. Okay. Thank God I'm not alone. Okay. Why you are here, if you signed up for this program, if you've been following me for a while, you are here because you feel that your English is preventing you from doing the things you want to do and getting the things you deserve to get. Does that resonate with you? We'll call it one, right? You feel your English is preventing you from doing the things you want to do and getting the things you deserve to get. If this resonates with you, if this is one of the reasons why you're here, put one in the comments. Maybe you're here because you want to feel like you're in your own skin when you speak. That would be number two. If this resonates with you, put two in the comments. You want to feel authentic, you want to feel free, you want to feel like, you know, you don't have to think about the fact that you're speaking English. One of the members in beyond just posted. Beyond is my private membership, my English practice community. And she wrote, we had have this challenge, this one, one on one challenge, like speaking with each other. And she spoke with like 20 people in 10 days. And she said she wrote a bunch of beautiful things there. And she said, for a moment I forgot that I was speaking English. And to me, that was the essence of. You want to feel like you're in your own skin when you speak. Because when you don't think about the language and the words just come out of you because you want to connect and you feel like yourself. I mean, that's the essence of communication. So if this is something that resonates with you, put two in the comments. Laura is like, 2, 2, 2, 2, two. Okay? Feeling authentic and like yourself. You're tired of the negative self talk that keeps you in an endless loop of frustration. You're good enough. It's not right. You sound bad, you mispronounced a word. Why bother? No one's going to talk to you. Right? So there are several different things that can come up for Us. This is number three. If this resonates with you, please put three in the comments. Okay. We have one and three. I'm here to get more confident. One, two and three. Right. Like a lot of times it's all these three things and four. You're here because you know there must be a better way to improve. There must be a better way to get to where you want to be, to achieve those 1, 2 and 3 without struggling or getting frustrated or feeling lost or confused or sad, stuck in a plateau forever. You know that there must be a better way to improve, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Right? So a lot of fours, too. Three and four. One, two, three, four fours, yeah. So what if I told you that there is a better way? Okay. And what if I told you that wherever you're. Wherever you're at on this journey and whatever number you choose, I'm here for you and I'm here to show you that way. Okay. But before that, I want to talk about in that way I skipped. I want you to know that it is possible for you to speak English in a way that feels free, clear and powerful and to feel like yourself. So let's talk about how we got here. Okay? I want to talk about the old way of learning English. So right now we're starting. This is the real deal. So if you're doing other things, if you have other tabs open, if you're with your phone, if you're talking to someone else, then please try to avoid all distractions and come back here. Because what I'm going to say in the next few minutes is probably going to be one of the most important things that you are going to get from this training. And I want you to be here for it. So. Okay. Do I have you? Good. The old way of learning English, the old way of fluency has to do with a few elements. One of them is information overwhelm. The old way of learning English, the way you have been taught, the way you were exposed to English, the way you consume content is creates information overwhelm. There's all those things that I need to learn and I feel like it's too much. It's overwhelming. I'm not sure I'll be able to do it. It's confusing, it's scary sometimes it's just like you don't know what to focus on. There are all these things, things, all these videos, all these grammar rules, all these freaking tenses. Right. That you need to learn. And it just feels a bit much. Creates overwhelm. And overwhelm usually makes us quit. Okay, can you see? Can you see the bullet points? Is it okay? Let me know. Put yes. If you can see it, then it's okay. If not, then I'll try to make the screen a little bigger. Mistakes will get you punished. What do I mean by that? When you go to school, right, and you have tests and quizzes and the teacher asks you questions, and then usually there is an answer. There is a right answer and a wrong answer. And when you say the right answer, you get praised and you feel great about yourself. And when you say the wrong answer, you lose points. You don't get praised. Sometimes you are made fun of. What? This is not the answer. You will never be able to learn English. Oh, and I've heard that from many of my students. They have received it from their teachers. I never experienced that personally, but I know that this is definitely something that people experience. Maybe being made fun of by classmates, parents, right? Well, if you don't get straight A's, then you're not gonna go to summer school, or you will go to summer school, right? You're not gonna get that thing that I promised you. So we are led, and it's not just about English, right? Let's just put it on the table. We are raised learning that mistakes are bad and giving the right answer is good, and we're going to get praised for it, and people are going to love us and we're going to shine and we're going to get attention, right? So we start, we develop this binary perception that mistakes are bad and we're going to get punished for it or, you know, made fun of for those mistakes. Does that resonate with you? Yes, it's difficult when it comes to grammar at school, it used to be like this, right? Like, I'm actually talking about school. I'm talking about elementary school, when we're just learning to understand the world. First grade, second grade, kindergarten even, right? Like, it's rooted in us, this idea of, you know, if we want to succeed, we need to give the right answer. We need to please people. We need to do well. And if we don't, sometimes we get rebellious, right? And then we don't care about all of those things. But usually there is something in us that wants to please other people, and that is usually about, you know, getting great grades and giving the right answers and all of that. So we have this perception, flawed perception that mistakes are bad, right? And that affects how we perceive ourselves as a speaker of English as a second language, passive consumption over active production. I talk about a lot in my videos. Passive consumption over active productions. We are so focused in consuming content. Podcasts, videos, books, writing essays. Like passive. Well, writing is more active, but not verbal, active production. Right. So it doesn't help our fluency. And we are so focused on consuming content that we forget to put it into practice. So passive content because it's easier, right? Think about it. In schools, it's a lot easier for the teacher to teach than to let the students speak, especially if we're talking about big classes. So your experience speaking and using the language is very minor. Then we have one style of teaching for all students. And again, I'm talking about school because this is where we established our perception of, you know, how. How to learn a second language. Or, you know, again, even if you haven't learned English in school, you have learned other subjects, and that has taught you what it means to do well, a certain field. Okay, so one style of teaching. So I could be, you know, teaching you something, and maybe that's not the way for you to learn it. Maybe you need to read it, maybe you need to take notes. Maybe you need to listen to it over and over again and to repeat it. Maybe you need to be walking around and doing all these funny movements to understand what it. What it is that you need to do or it is that you need to learn. So you know, you need to know what's right for you. And sometimes the way you are taught or were taught was not the way it was right for you and for your brain. And as a result, you ended up thinking, I'm not a good student. I just don't get it right? Whereas maybe with a different form of teaching, it could have been a lot easier for you to process that information, ignoring the internal state, ignoring this idea of what it takes to speak a second language that is such a huge part. Physical, psychological, psychological, mental, emotional aspects. So that is not a part of language learning. The old way of fluency, right? It's not a part. You do your thing, just speak more and you'll become confident. Unfortunately, we are more complicated than that. Written English is prioritized over spoken English. Usually when people start learning English, it's a lot easier to teach through, you know, the Alphabet, teaching it, understanding how to use, how to write. And that also affects the way we perceive language, especially when it comes to pronunciation. So as a result, you know, you learn how to. You approach the language through the written form, and that could be problematic when it comes to using the language, speaking the language and so forth. And I'm going to talk about that tomorrow when we talk about building pronunciation confidence and encouraging not enoughness with, you know, teachers reprimanding you for not. For not doing well or for not being able to speak, you're not good enough. You're not going to make it. Right. Harmful marketing. Don't say this, don't say that. You know, if you want to sound intelligent, you. You need to do X, Y, Z. You need to say that if you want to sound smart, if you want to be engaging, if you. So that means that the state, the current state right now is not good enough, right? And here's the thing. As speakers of English as a second language, we already feel not good enough. Because if we always compare it to our first language, then it always feels like not enough. So that when we receive it constantly by everyone out there, comparisons on Instagram, when we have that all the time around us, then of course it's going to accentuate this feeling of not enough. And measuring fluency through levels, which means labeling people based on their ability to produce language. But it's also interconnected to tests and how well people pass tests. And as a result, people may have a flawed perception as to what level they're in simply because, you know, they were not doing well in tests. So this is another element in the old way of fluency that has affected people over the years. Now, the old way has led to forming the identity of the non native speaker. Now, I'm saying non native speaker, and I'm saying it with pride, because being a non native speaker means that we speak another language, that we are courageous enough to communicate and express ourselves in another language. Sometimes we have no choice. Sometimes to survive, we have to speak another language, whether it's English or another language, right? But if we think of the old way of English, the old way of learning English, it has led to what we know now as the non native speaker. This is why, you know, we always have this perception of I want to speak like a native, because right now I'm a non native. There is like no in it, right? Not native, not according to standards. The identity of the non native speaker is as follows. In constant overwhelm. As a result of the old way of teaching English, the non native speaker is in constant overwhelm, right? And confusion as to what to do next. Afraid of making mistakes, Terrified of making mistakes. Needs permission and validation from natives and teachers. Right? Does that resonate with you? I'm going to make it a little bigger so you can see it right. Needs permission and validation from natives and teachers. Was I good? Did I do well? Did I sound like a native? No. Learning and practice habits in place, right? Might be sporadically practicing here and there. There are like peaks. I'm motivated. I'm gonna do it for a few days, for a few weeks. And then you don't see progress. And then you lose courage and you lose faith and you're like defeated and you're like, I'm not. I'm not gonna be able to get it. And then you stop learning English for a while and then an opportunity comes up and you're doing it again. Loses motivation often, right? Which is the result of no learning and practice habits in place. Values perfection over communication. If it's not perfect, I'm not going to say. It doesn't matter that I have something important to say. It needs to be perfect first so I don't make mistakes, so people don't judge me, so I don't make a fool of myself. Feels unclear, right? Things get stuck. Like you have sand inside your mouth, right? And you can't speak. That's the constant feeling. Your muscles are sore, you feel exhausted after speaking. Doesn't you don't like. Not you, but the non native speaker, not suggesting that it's you yet. Doesn't like how they sound, right? I don't like my voice. I don't want to practice, I don't want to hear my voice. Right. I don't like how I pronounce things. And victim mentality. Well, you know, it's like that because I don't have anyone to talk to because I wasn't born in an English speaking country. I don't have anything. Like I don't know what to do. I don't have the money, I don't have. Right? Like it gets you in this. You start feeling like a victim. Now again, it's a human pattern. We all feel like victims sometimes. But all this circumstances that have led to forming this identity of the non native speaker, right? All of that leads to a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness and creates this victim mentality. Okay, so my question is, does this sound like you? Everything that I described here, the identity of the non native species speaker, put yes in the comments or no. If not, doesn't have to be right. Maybe some things resonated with you, some not. Yes, okay, Definitely. Pamela says, okay, I'm gonna give you a moment to answer so I know yes. I'm gonna put it back so you can see it. Does this sound like you do you experience this? Feel unclear, you don't like your voice. You lose motivation often. No. Learning and practice habits in place. You need permission from teachers and from coaches afraid of making mistakes. You want to sound like a native speaker so no one notices that you're a non native speaker. Right. In constant overwhelm and confusion. I don't know what to do. And you're like all over the place and you're doing a lot of things, but you feel like you're on a hamster wheel just doing more and more and more. Okay, yeah. Victim mentality for sure. Deborah says that's me. Natalia. Before I felt this way today. No. Amazing. Natalia. And when you share your English journey, share how you got here, don't like how I sound? Absolutely, yes. Okay. So let's move on. I want you to know that this is not your fault. It's not your fault. Why? Because you just inherited and developed a flawed approach to what it takes to reach fluency. Remember the old way of fluency, the old way of learning English? So it has developed. You have developed because of that, a flawed approach. Approach to what it takes to reach fluency. We live in a modern culture that's designed to create these vicious cycles of failure and hierarchy that go against the way our brain and body are built to thrive when it comes to mastering a language. I'm going to read that again. And I deliberately wrote it so I don't, you know, I say it as clearly and concisely as possible. It's not your fault because you just inherited and developed a flawed approach to what it takes to reach fluency. We live in a modern culture that's designed to create this. These vicious cycles of failure. Feeling not good enough, Feeling, you know, like we have to prove ourselves and hierarchy that go against the way our brain and body are built to thrive when it comes to mastering a language. So what you've experienced in the past has prevented you from stepping into your full potential in English. And this is why I want to introduce you to the new way learning English. Because there is a new way to fluency that is quite different than what I've described before. The new way of fluency is active production over passive consumption. And that's a non negotiable right. Implementing what you learn. Use English more than learn something new. Okay. Use English more. Of course there is a way to use it and how to use it and how to use it intentionally. I'm going to share that with you here. But the idea is to put into practice practice and implementation and active production is a lot more than passive consumption. So no more watching videos on YouTube, even my videos, and moving from one video to another and reading another book and listening to another podcast without doing anything about it. Okay? It's not going to get you anywhere. You're going to expand your passive vocabulary. Okay. You're going to learn how to read faster. Okay. But at the end of the day, will it help you communicate more clearly? Not necessarily. In the new way of fluency, you work smarter and not harder. And today we're going to talk about that and how to do that. Focusing on the 20% that will lead to. That will lead to 80% of the results. Not learning everything that is out there, but being very strategic about what you need and want to learn. Okay? Being very strategic is all about building a good strategy and it's all about putting good habits in place. We're going to talk about it on day four. Habit forming is part of the journey, right? When you went to school, no one talked about how to build a good habit, how to break a bad habit, like distractions or using your phone when you're practicing your English, how to stay consistent. Right? Again, we're going to talk about it on day four. But think about it like, you know, think of the times, the time that you wanted to start working out or you wanted to, to eat better. And it sticks until a certain point where it doesn't stick anymore. Unless you've built strong habits that are non negotiable. It's like something that you do every day, right? Who works out here every single day? Write me in the comments if you have a habit of working out every day and you've been doing it for a few months. Because if you do, then you know what it takes to put strong habits in place. And you also know that it's not easy at the beginning. And we tend to, you know, at first we get excited, then the body says, no, please don't. You know, it tries to prevent you from doing it and then you do it anyway because you know, it's good for you, it's good for your mental health and your physical health makes you feel good, look good, right? And you do it because you see tangible results. Maybe not the next day, but after a week or after a month. Great. Amazing. Hi, I'm not me. Okay. But yeah, ghee says me. We have me. I can't see all of your names. I exercise every single morning, Sergey. I know that. Okay? I struggled to do this. Definitely not. Okay? So, yeah, why not? Like we all want to be the kind of people who work out every morning and feel good and in shape. But it's hard because we need to build strong habits. And usually habits are designed to do things we don't really want to do but we know are good for us. Right. Otherwise we wouldn't need habits. We have habits around using our phone and we didn't have to work hard to do it. This is why it's not a habit. It's an addiction even. Right? But think about it like the things that we love doing. We don't need to work hard to get them, get those habits in place. Same thing with practicing your English. Let's move on. Too much talk about habits, we're going to talk more about that. Mental, psychological and emotional aspects are an inherent part. Right? Inherent. You can't do without it. Talking about mindset, like confidence, like confidence. Does it come out of the sky? No. You need to build confidence. And to build confidence, you need to shatter, you know, perceptions about yourself that keep you stuck. All this negative self talk, it's not a must. Not everyone has it. You don't have to have it. You don't have to live with it. Sometimes we have it and we need to manage it, to navigate out of it. I have it still, right? When I start a live with 1500 people, of course I have it. What if you're going to mess up? What if it's like, what are you going to fall? What are you going to not be clear? What if the camera is not going to be stable like now? Right. So all of these things, these voices are a part of life. It's not preventing me from doing what I want to do. If it's preventing you, it doesn't have to be that way. Right. And the only way to address it is to address it. To address it. Not to say, I'm just going to practice English more and it's going to be fine. It's not going to be fine. It's not going to be fine. Right? Like, because it doesn't go away unless you take care of it. And it's really easy to take care of it with consistency, repetition, strategy, willingness. Right. A mindset shift can be instantaneous. Rather than practicing your English and sounds that take a little longer, encouraging language, enoughness. You are enough. Your English is enough. Like I said at the beginning, doesn't matter where you're at on this journey of English, we don't measure fluency. There is no better or worse. You are where you need to be and where you are now is enough because you're able to be here and to communicate, and the fact that you're here, we'll help you improve. But feeling like you're enough, feeling like you're enough is all it takes to show up more and to take, to take action. Spoken English is prioritized, not written, you know, not listening to English. That's the new way of learning English. That's new fluency. And English is a lifestyle, it's not a project. I mean, improving your English can be considered as a project, but as a non native speaker, as a speaker of English as a second language, involving yourself in English, involving yourself in anything related to moving forward and learning more and improving is a part of your life and it is. Okay. Accepting that will take off all the pressure of, oh, you know, I need to, you know, I, I haven't reached the level that I should have up until now. Okay, but you have your entire life to do it, to get there. So the new way forms the desired identity of the new speaker of English. So who is the new speaker of English? And by the way, the new speaker is a term coined by academia. So there will be a, a name for speakers of English as a second, third, fourth language. That, that is not, that is not. I lost the word, I don't know what the word that I'm trying to say, but it doesn't refer to native speakers. Right? Like so non native speaker mean that there is the native speaker and the non native speaker is someone who is not, who doesn't have that privilege of being a native speaker. So instead this term was coined. It's not in vast use, but I think it's brilliant. And the new fluency leads to the desired identity of the new speaker. Now, what is the desired identity of the new speaker? The new speaker is in full ownership of their language, Remember, victim mentality. So no, no such thing here. Because you take responsibility for everything you've done in the past, Right? If you practice, you'll see results. If you don't practice, you don't see results. No regret, no feeling guilty, no feeling like it's just not working for you. No. You know that if you put in the work, you'll see results. That's the, that's the new speaker. Does it need permission or validation from anyone? Right. No. I, I, it's nice to get feedback, it's nice to get positive words, but I don't have to have it to feel like I'm worthy or to feel like I'm doing well because I Know I'm doing well even if I make mistakes. Strong learning and practice habits in place Daily practice. Language learning requires daily practice. Even if it's 10 minutes a day, even if it's five minutes of intentional thinking or speaking or practicing. Embraces and celebrates mistakes. Mistakes, Right. Because mistakes are not going to make me feel bad. They're going to make me feel excited because I discovered something that is not in place and now I know what to focus on because it's a, it's a, it's a spotlight on what still needs to improve or, or doesn't need to be improved. It's just there. Right. I can also be very, very indifferent to mistakes. Right. But I definitely don't feel like I need to avoid mistakes. As a new speaker of English motivated to improve, learn and use English. Right. There's always this internal motivation because you understand the deeper meaning and you don't feel so bad about yourself. Every time you speak, you actually start enjoying speaking. A lot of my students talk about how they now just enjoy the language. Before, they never enjoyed it and now they enjoy it so much. That's the idea. And you know, when you have joy in the process, you're motivated to do more of that and to discover more things. Values Communication over perfection. Hashtag communication over perfection. If you are posting something on Instagram for the, for the challenge and the raffle. Hashtag communication overperfection. It's one of the most important thing. Doesn't matter if you make mistakes. Doesn't matter if your thought is not fully outlined. Speak. Because speaking will help you to connect with people, will help you to communicate. And the more you do it, the better you get at it. Okay. Knows how to use speech and voice in an optimal way. That means that you have this freedom and ability to use whatever is happening here to your advantage so you can get what you want and you can sound clear. Not so that people think that you are, you know, a local. Not that it's bad. I definitely, I'm not criticizing that. I'm just saying that if this is your goal, ask yourself, why is that? What is the underlying fear of people recognizing that I'm not a native speaker? Right. What would that mean to them? But at the same time, using speech sounds in a way that get you what you want is an excellent tool to have in any language, but definitely in a language that is not your own and responsible for their choices. Right. So would you like to own the identity of the new speaker of English every time? Everything we talked about, about if you Are and put yes in the comments. Or hell yes or heck yes. If you are ready to step into the identity of the new speaker of English. Right. In full ownership, Proud to communicate effortless communication. Responsible for your choices, habits in place. Proud of your English. Communication over perfection. Who gives a crap about mistakes? I mean, oh, you know, I made a mistake. Great. Now I know what I need to practice. Okay. English is joyful. You feel like you're in your own skin. Right? Okay, we have a lot of yeses. Yes. I think you're ready. You're ready. Okay. There was a good point here from Vince and I'm going to talk about it in module number five. The underlying four fear is discrimination. We are definitely going to talk about it. And let me see if I can. Yelena, if you can mark this comment by Vince and I'm going to comment on it, but I'm just going to say really quickly, you know what, I'm going to address it now. The underlying fear is discrimination. Experience it. And trying to prevent it by changing myself. I can only do so much to native speakers of this language. So this is a really good point. And I don't want to behave as if, as if discrimination and bias does not exist. I see it all the time. And this is why I believe it's important to work on your clarity. I think it's important that you're able to communicate. I think it's important that you have all the tools, all the tools that you need to deliver your message with confidence. But discrimination is going to be out there anyway. And sometimes, you know, when we get really particular about speech sounds, it get it, it creates almost this, you know, not only that, it encourages this feeling of not being good enough. Right. It also creates this insecurity when communicating because you always have that external ear. And from my experience, from my experience, when people with an accent communicate with confidence and, you know, they understand something about the tone of voice and how to speak to people in a way that makes the other person also feel comfortable. And that's about communication skills, Right. I think that accent plays a lesson, significant role in the world of discrimination. At the same time, I'm totally aware of it. But are you going to change your life's experience or how you experience English and use English based on this external look of the world on you? Right. Or. Or you'll recognize that this is their problem and this happens as well. And discrimination can be there still, but the nuances in speech is not what's going to make the difference if you own you know, if you own the language and if you feel like you know how to communicate in an effective way. And at the same time I'm, as I said, I'm not stupid. I know that it exists. But the most important question is how do you feel inside the language? And I think that matters more the ownership of your identity because I think that. And again like also when I work with actors or with certain people working in certain places, I think that sometimes it's important to be able to put on that new sound, right? Like to put on that new pronunciation or a certain accent so you can get what you want. Sometimes it's like a costume, but at the same time as long as you have the freedom to move around it. I think that is the beauty of the work that we do. Okay. And like I said, we will talk more about that when we get to day three, which is the day about mindset and how we our attitude towards the language. Okay. So this training is designed to help you step into the identity of the new speaker by and this is how we're gonna structured outline the journey. One, identifying your needs. So that's the first thing working smarter, not harder then building pronunciation confidence. This is day two. So I'm going to teach you the method to help you own everything related to speech sounds, words, grammar and more. Wait, there's a bit of a delay. Let's see. Stepping into the fluent mindset. Okay. Talking about mindset and attitude and how to manage this negative self talk and creating your successful journey. Okay. Which is the outline? We're going to outline all the elements and the components you need to get to where you want to get to move from the non native speaker to the new speaker of English. So probably asking yourself if you, if you, if you don't know me, there are a lot of people here who are new to my world. So why trust me, right? Why am I the right person to teach you that? So my name is Hadar, as you know. And when I finished high school I got my final grade in English was C, even C minus. So I wasn't the best student. I was able to speak but it was definitely not something that I was good at. Right. And I was afraid of making mistakes. In 2001 I moved to the US and started Acting School School in 2002. This is me in 2003 as Lady Macbeth doing the role in a Scottish accent. Shakespeare in a Scottish accent for an Israeli girl. I mean I worked really hard on this role. So I studied acting for two years in New York Learned all different kinds of accents. And I fell in love with the ability to change speech sounds by understanding how everything works here. But it wasn't enough, because when I discovered that, of course, you know, for me to be an actress in New York, and I was a part of an acting group, to be an actress in New York meant that I would have to have a standard American accent if I were to get cast in roles in most of the roles that were offered there. Otherwise, I would only get cast as the foreigner, right? And there weren't a lot of options for the foreigners. There was a lot of competition in New York. So I acquired an American accent working with two incredible coaches. And I also learned a bunch of different dialects, like the Scottish dialect and Irish and British and Liverpool and South African. So I fell in love with that. And not only that, a lot like a whole new world has opened up for me when it comes to fluency. So. So from, you know, being very basic in English and communicating ineffectively, I all of a sudden realized what understanding speech sounds can do to your fluency, confidence, and overall English performance. When I moved back to Israel back in 2005, I had somewhat of a. I was a bit depressed because I moved out of New York. I felt like my dream was kind of like my dream of becoming an actress was moving away. And I was in this acting group, and I was. It was in Hebrew, right? And I was in this world of. I don't use English anymore, but I don't know how to find my voice in Hebrew. So it might sound strange to you, but I just felt like I can't communicate. I can't speak up. I used to. So I remember we were on this bus tour with this group of actors, incredible people that I really admire. And I was, like, sitting there on the bus, trying to hide and just hoping that no one would start a conversation with me because I was so afraid of speaking right? I was so afraid of sounding stupid. I was so afraid. Like, I felt that every word that comes came out of my mouth was just the most idiotic thing ever. And because of that, I was really saying stupid things because my brain was not working well. And I remember sitting there and feeling this burning feeling in my throat. And I was not sick, but this burning feeling in my throat of my voice not able to come out. So even though it wasn't English, I've experienced this debilitating fear of not being able to speak and not being able to express my voice. And it reminded me of the times where I lived in New York. And I wasn't really free in English, right? Or, you know, I. I wasn't able to communicate. But all of that together made me, you know, kind of like go into this rabbit hole of self judgment and unworthiness and not feeling good enough. And I started doing all this random crap. Like, I studied, you know, I said I worked in restaurants and I started managing a restaurant. I was like, okay, I'm just gonna be a restaurant manager for the rest of my life. That's actually good. I convinced myself. And I would go back home crying every single day for not doing what I love doing, right? And I would. I studied nutrition. And so anyway, I was. I was like, all over the place. And then I started teaching pronunciation in my living room because I needed the extra cash. And I was thinking, okay, what can I do to make money? And it feels boring to just teach English. What if I teach pronunciation? I was really. I was a star student in New York, and I loved it so much, and I missed it. It was like, what if I try doing it? It was really good. Like, I had this first lesson, it was going really well, and I decided to keep on doing it. And gradually I started creating this group of students that came to my home, you know, two, three times a week. And I was still working in the restaurant business, and I was actually teaching in Hebrew, speaking about fear, speaking about, you know, what if I get judged? Because I was afraid that if I were to teach them in English, they would hear my accent and they would say to themselves, who is she to teach us pronunciation? I hear that she, you know, she doesn't sound like a native, right? She doesn't that like, she make mistakes. She makes mistakes. So I was teaching pronunciation in Hebrew because of that fear. And I remember one day of having this conversation with myself saying to myself, okay, Hadar, you. You're really enjoying doing this. This is like, it really lights you up. You're good at it. Your students love you. It's so much better than working in a restaurant and getting shouted by the chef every night. So if you want to do it, you need to be serious about it. And that means that you're going to have to move into teaching in English because you can't do what you want to do if you keep staying safe and you keep teaching in Hebrew. And I remember listening to my recordings, teaching. I started. So I started teaching English only my favorite students, those whom I knew that they wouldn't judge me or at least they wouldn't show it right, And I would listen to those recordings afterwards and be like, this is how I sound. And I would do it anyway and I would do it. And then gradually I grew and I started a blog and then I started, you know, it became word of mouth and people started coming to me. And then I quit my job and I started doing just that. And, and then there was one point where I decided to open a YouTube channel. Now, why am I telling you all this? Because I couldn't have done that without that decision of knowing that my voice is important. And I have a big mission. And the only way for me to do it is just to do it and to take this leap and do something that is super scary and will get, you know, will make people think about me in a way that I don't want them to think about me. They might judge me, they might think that I'm not good enough, but I would do it anyway. Fast forward to today, few years later, half a million subscribers on YouTube. We have an incredible community, the influency community with over 20,000 people. I'm a consultant. I was a consultant for Google. Fun fact. So if you know this pronunciation tool on Google where you click where you write how to pronounce and you see this. So I designed the, the, the phonetic transcript, how it's represented here, and I also help them design the feedback. All the feedback that you're reading on Google is feedback that I wrote. And again, speaking of the imposter syndrome, I remember writing this feedback lists and lists of feedback. And I remember thinking, what if their technical editor is going to spot mistakes and think, who is she to write feedback for Google? Yet I did it because I knew it's more important, right? Despite the fear, despite, you know, the fear of making mistakes, it's important to put yourself out there because that's how you get what you want. Okay? We have a bunch of courses with thousands of students around the world. And right now we have also, wait, an incredible team from all around the world, right? And this is where I am right now. Now, I'm not saying that to brag. I'm saying that it was all based on that one decision, right, of me saying, okay, this is really scary and I'm going to do it anyway. Had I decided to just, okay, I'm just going to continue teaching in Hebrew because it's safer and I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing because I'm good at managing restaurants. I wouldn't be here right now. I wouldn't be here, right, because I was able to Achieve that the moment I decided my voice is important and to fight my internal demons that persuaded me to keep quiet for years. While I was, you know, not confident in my English, and while I was coming back here and not confident in myself and my voice, I was finally ready to prioritize communication over perfection and to get uncomfortable so I could share my message in English. And lots and lots of practice, let's not forget, okay? It's not magic solutions. There's practice involved. You guys, I'm not special. I'm not special. I was able to get there by simply discovering a new way to fluency. Because on top of what I told you, I did a whole bunch of other things, everything that I shared with you, a lot of mindset work that has led me here. In fact, my students who follow this path have also seen incredible results. Like Fatima, who opened a YouTube channel in English after my program New Sound. Or Barbara, who I'm going to wait for it to pass. Or Barbara, who found the courage to ask for a raise in her English speaking job after she finished our program and she went through that journey. Or Tamash, that was thrilled to discover he can have an effect. An effortless conversation with a native speaking colleague after years of struggle and getting stuck. And you guys, if you're here, I love you very much and I cheer you on. Or. Or she, who started giving guided tours in English after avoiding it for years, and she even started teaching English. And recently I was in Budapest and I met her and it was an incredible experience. Or Marcelo, my dear Marcelo, who started taking phone calls from colleagues after always avoiding them or only replying by text. These are the small decisions that will lead them in the future to bigger results, the ripple effect. But those decisions that maybe you are not taking right now, right? Those small changes, those small tweaks, asking for a raise, opening a YouTube channel, starting taking phone calls is what's going to lead to the results that you're after. Staying safe and not doing those things is probably not going to get you there. So I want to tell you that it is possible. So are you ready to find your path to new fluency? Like Marcelo and Barbara and. Or she and Thomas? So let's begin by identifying your fluency needs. And I'm going to just give you a moment to ask questions. I'm going to drink some water, excited and nervous, talking about myself. A lot of yeses. Good. Who's here? If one of the students is here, please say hi. So I know you're here. Barbara. Or she. And there Are many more stories, right? Yes, Elena. Okay, cool. Let's begin by identifying your fluency needs. Question. If you were to become a chef, would you learn how to cook every single dish? Probably not, right? If you were to become an athlete, would you practice every sport there is? Probably not. You would want to specialize in something. If you were to become a teacher, would you specialize in all the subjects that exist? Right. Physics and chemistry and knitting? No. You would focus on the thing that would get you the position that you want, Right. If you were to become a new speaker of English, would you learn every rule, sound or word that exists in English? Probably not yet. Sometimes something in the old way of fluency kind of suggests or the circumstances get you to feel that. And to do that, the secret to your success is to work smarter, not harder. And by the way, if you haven't downloaded the workbook, you know, or if you have, now is the time to open it and to take notes because we're going to start talking about prioritizing your speech needs. So I always talk about it and today I'm going to make it super specific for you. The Pareto principle. According to The Pareto Principle, 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. So, for example, if I were to open a store, then probably when I look at the revenue at the end of each month, 80% of my revenue would come from 20% of the products. And the final 20% of my revenue would come from the rest of the 80% of the percent of the products. Same thing with my courses. When I think about it, 80% of my students join 20% of my programs and 20% join the rest of the 80%. Let's talk about fluency. How does that apply to fluency? So let's say the 100% is your fluency goal. Remember what we talked about at the beginning, right? Speaking clearly, freely, effortlessly being able to use your speech sounds in a way that serves you, whatever that means. You know what it means for you, right? So here's the thing. Let's agree. Let's agree that to get to 80% of that 100%, right. If 100% is absolute fluency, right. It's like your ideal. You'd be fine after if you're 80% there. Let's agree that you're still going to be pretty content, right? You're not going to be in this painful struggle. Yes. So to get there, what is required of you to put in 20% of the effort? It's not that you need to put 100% effort to get to your fluency goal, to get to 80%. And of course, it's not, you know, pure math, but that's the idea. To get 80 to where you want to be. You. You don't need to focus on putting 80 of the effort, just 20%. And consequently, consequently, to get to 100%, that extra 20%, you would have to put in the extra 80% of the effort. Right? So to get to 100%, you need to put in a lot more work and a lot more effort. This is why, especially those who try to learn and acquire a standard American accent when they do the work at some point, and not to, you know, it doesn't take too long before they hear a significant difference. That would be the 80%. And then there is like that small thing that, you know, those small pronunciations or, you know, there's the. The thing that people say, oh, you sound. You sound like you're from here, but not. Right, like, where are you from? That 20% takes a lot more work. And this is why I say, why do you need to get there if you can focus joyfully on getting almost there? I need to drink. Perfection is overrated. For most people. Okay, so how can we work smarter, not harder, based on that model? Well, what goes into here, into your effort? The question is, I forgot what I planned in the slide. The question is, what goes into here to get here, right? It's not like working 20% of the time and that's it, right? You'll get 80% of the results. No, this is smart work, not hard work. And we need to know what we need to. Where we need to put our effort to get to 80% of the results. Now, if you haven't been introduced to the fluency wheel just yet, I'm going to introduce it to you today again. And if you have been, it's always good to reiterate it and to think about it again, because the fluency wheel keeps changing and keeps turning. The fluency wheel. The fluency wheel. If fluency is like this, freedom. We define fluency as freedom of speaking. Let me give me just a sec to see, to make sure. Okay, let me just. Let me minimize myself. Took me some time to see it. Okay, now let's talk about the fluency wheel. Thank you, Elena, for letting me know that I need to do it. The fluency wheel suggests that there are six pillars to fluency. And it doesn't matter what your level is in each one. But the most important thing is that it will be balanced. So, for example, there, as I said, there are six pillars to fluency, grammar comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking time. The time you practice listening comprehension is understanding other people when they speak because it affects your fluency and your confidence and everything else together. You don't understand. You can process the information, you can't respond. Speaking time, the actual time that you're speaking. Active vocabulary. That means that the vocabulary you use freely, not the vocabulary you understand. And we're going to go deeper into that when in your implementation workshop and in the workbook. Okay, so there's more explanation about that, but active vocabulary is not just like knowing more words in English. It really is about making words that are accessible. And the bigger your active vocabulary is, the freer and the more expressive you are. Okay? Confidence and mindset, like I said, it's an inherent part of the work. So understanding your pitfalls, what holds you back, your limiting beliefs, the fear, right? Like the attitude that you have towards yourself, liking or not liking your voice. Right. That's the confidence and mindset, and that needs to be achieved. So, for example, you could have, you know, you could give yourself 8 in pronunciation, 7 in grammar, 10 in comprehension, 6 in speaking time, because you kind of speak at work, two in confidence, and still you will not experience fluency. Maybe people from the outside will say, hey, you're super fluent, but you will not feel free and in your own skin. So it doesn't matter what other people think. It's important what your experience is. So confidence and fluency, if it's a 2 and everything else is a 10, you're still not fluent. Right? Same thing with pronunciation. If your pronunciation is a two, and in a second, we're going to talk about how to score it. But if your pronunciation is two, for example, then you might be like, your grammar might be great. You might have a lot of speaking time, maybe you're super confident. But if you're communicating and people having a. Might have a hard time understanding you, you will have. You will have this experience of not being able to connect with other people, not getting what you want, not getting your message across. So like I said, we want to balance it out, whether it's all threes, all fours, all five, all eight. So in the workbook, I'm going to guide you and invite you to identify your fluence, your pillars of fluency. Right? The elements of fluency. So you want to give yourself a score between 1 to 10. One is, I really struggle with it. This is, you know, this is a big challenge in my life. And 10 is I don't have. I don't think about it. I don't have any issues with it. I love my grammar. I love my pronunciation. So you're probably somewhere between 1 and 10. Now, this goes to this perception of, oh, I need someone to tell me what level is right? I need someone to tell me if I'm a five or six. And remember, we're shifting from the old way of fluency to the new way of fluency where you don't need feedback and validation. And sometimes it has to be artificial, okay? Because you know that in the new way of fluency, the new speakers, they don't need feedback from others. They know. Well, let me fix that. Because it's not like feedback is great and feedback can push you forward, but you don't need validations, right? You don't need someone to tell you how good you are. You. You are in control of your own journey. That means that you have a certain experience around your grammar, vocabulary, active vocabulary, pronunciation. If there is frustration around your active vocabulary, it doesn't matter that your active vocabulary is much better than someone else's. It's important that you don't feel like it's. It's good enough for you to use it freely. You feel that it keeps you stuck, and this is why you might give it a lower score. Maybe there is this big gap between your passive vocabulary. You understand English so well. Everything, like, you know all these fancy words, but you rarely use them, right? That creates frustration because the gap is so big between what you know and what you use. We'll talk about it tomorrow. So, you know, then you can say to yourself, okay, I'm unhappy with this. I feel that this is an area where I need to improve. I'm going to give myself a three. I'm going to give myself a five and eight in all other pillars. So I want you to give yourself a score for each one of the pillars. Again, everything is. We're gonna guide you on how to do that in the workbook. The workbook is in your email, and probably our team members have shared it with you as well. Okay. So. And you can fill it in inside. And then, you know, the most important thing is, is, you know, if we're thinking about working smarter, not harder, the most important thing is to focus on the elements that have received the lowest scores. Okay? This is where we want to focus on. This is working smarter, not harder. I'm going to show you how it looks like. So this is what it looks like in the workbook Sorry, wait, where is it? Okay, this is what it looks like. And you just draw a line based on your score and you'll see, you'll see that if it's not balanced right, think about it. It's a wheel. It's not going to turn, it's not going to roll. It's thinking of a wheel of a car. Okay, Like I mentioned, download the workbook. And I want to remind you that there is an implementation workshop that is going to help you implement that. Now, let's take a moment before we move on, and I want to ask you if you were to kind of like really quickly, let me put back the fluency wheel. We're almost done. And then we're going to leave some time for questions. So usually the training every day is going to be around 90 minutes, and then you can either leave or stick around and I'll answer some questions. Okay, so if this is the fluency wheel, let's see. Okay, what are the three elements? Look at it really quickly without thinking about it. We're gonna. Usually in my programs, we go a little deeper. So I give you the right questions to know what exactly. Like how to identify your each one of the pillars. We don't have a lot of time to do it because we really have a lot of. A lot of things to cover throughout the program. But I want you to do your best and just trust your intuition and just like, just give yourself a random number right now. Not a random. A number that you feel is right for each one of the elements. Now tell me in the comments, what are the three pillars that require most of the work? Speaking time means that you need time to practice. So that means that if you don't use English at all and you don't use it actively at all, you'd probably get a low score. 1, 2, 3. If you use English every day, all day, you're probably going to be high up at around 8, 9, 10. Right? That's speaking time. Grammar is, you know, how much you're consumed with structuring sentences, grammar and syntax, right? How much you're consumed? How much are you afraid of making grammar mistakes if you're still stuck every time you need to talk about the past because you don't know if it needs to be the present perfect or the past perfect or the past simple or the past continuous. So these are the things that are in your head when you're speaking. Gonna make it a little bigger. These are the things that are in your head when you're speaking. Then I really want you to recognize that this is something that is holding you back and you need to work on it. And when you work on the lowest elements, that's when you start moving faster or moving up that, that diagram, right? Getting to the results that you want. Because if you're really good at, I don't know, if you feel very comfortable with pronunciation and you love it, you love it, but you don't have a lot of speaking time, you are going to want to practice pronunciation as much as possible because it's easy and you know it and you love it and you enjoy it. And to speak with other people means that you're gonna have to plan, you're gonna have to be friendly. Especially for those introverts, it's not gonna be that exciting, right? Like, you're gonna have to get out of your comfort zone. So you might not do it and instead you might be practicing pronunciation more or doing a lot of another listening exercise. But if you already have a high score there, you might want to actually invest more time and energy and build a strategy around increasing speaking time because the score is really low and you gotta raise it to get to your goal. Grammar, pronunciation, active vocabulary, speaking time, active vocabulary, pronunciation. Right. Phobia and grammar. Yeah, Sue. So definitely, I would say grammar is your focus now. In the workbook, you'll get questions like, what about grammar? Do you need to improve? So the fact that you need to improve grammar doesn't mean that now you need to open your grammar book. Where is it? Like, maybe I have one here. It's too far back. My mic is not gonna, not gonna be able to reach it. Right. You. Doesn't mean that you need to open your grammar book and start learning everything about it. No, There are a few tenses that you need that you use consistently popular tenses, and they're all the fancy tenses. Future perfect. Right. Or even past perfect. That is in vast use. But it's not a mistake. If you were to use, well, I'm not going to use the word mistake, but everyone will still understand you and you'll communicate clearly if you use the past simple instead. Right? So you're still, you're still going to be able to communicate confidently if you, you know, if you are not going to own some of the tenses, but there are a few tenses that, if you don't have ownership over them, you're going to really struggle with communicating and delivering your message. Right. Like the simple past or the past continuous. Right. These are very popular tenses that you might Want to own. And that is what I would focus on. If you have a phobia of grammar, what else do we have here? Use correct tenses. Maria says so. Maria. Yeah, I would definitely put grammar. And Maria, I would want you to ask yourself, what are the tenses that you struggle with? Right. Grammar, Vocabulary. Speaking. For those of you who put speaking, because you don't have a lot of speaking time, please try to take advantage of the speaking activities in this event so that you can practice speaking as much as possible. And afterwards, you know, you can either continue with us or continue in the influency community. We have a lot of options for you to continue your English practice. Perfect tenses. Good. So perfect tenses is very precise about what it is that you need to improve and change. What else? Active vocabulary. Pronunciation. So even with pronunciation, every person has different levels. Right. Think about it. Some people will only want to work on the nuances because they've come a long way and for them it's still important. And others might have to work on the basics on, you know, making sure that content words are more stressed than function words so they can deliver a clear message. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Right. Active vocabulary. Good. Intonation. Conditionals are difficult to use. Good. So, Deepak, I would put conditionals. And by the way, the practice group, the grammar practice group with Marcella is going to help you overcome your conditional challenge. So if. And everything is going to be recorded, by the way. Okay, good. So keep doing the work in the workbook or in the implementation workshops, and let's continue with. Okay, so we talked about this, talked about downloading the workbook, we talked about the implementation workshop, and that's it. Moving on to what we have for tomorrow. Tomorrow, day two. Building pronunciation confidence. The technique that will help you improve your pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. We're going to try to cover as much as possible. The sprints are based on the pronunciation confidence method, and the practice groups are based on the pronunciation confidence method. If you are a beyonder, then you know it already. Or a new sounder. One of my students. Okay, listen up, you guys. Wait. Small me, big. Where is it? Small me, big. Slides. The journey is long, my friend, but it doesn't have to be hard or boring or defeating. Okay? You can find a joyful way to practice and use English, one that makes you feel proud and accomplished. And you certainly don't have to do it alone. Because part of what we believe in is that English is not meant to be learned alone and practiced alone, but inside a community. And this is why community and community learning is a huge part of what we do. You are held accountable, you are inspired. You are motivated to do those things because you are around people who do the things you want to do. You are around people who are sometimes where you want to be and sometimes you need to pull them up to help them be where you are at. And helping others is part of this work. It's part of this purpose of connecting with people and helping each other. And that's it. Now, first of all, I want to thank you for being here with me for 90 minutes, going through this idea of new way fluency and the distinction between the non native speaker and the new speaker of English. And we are moving in the direction of the new speaker of English. We are the new speakers. We are the new sound of English. If you have any questions, here is how you can ask them. First of all, now Yelena is going to collect your questions and I'll try to answer as many questions as possible in the next 30, 30 minutes. Here are a few ways for you to ask questions about anything. Workshops with coaches, right, the implementation workshops. Submit your question. We shared a form and we're going to share it in the in the email tomorrow where you can ask. You can submit your question there and at the end of each day I'll select some questions from there as well. And you can also ask it in the group hashtag ask. And we have a lot of coaches and mentors who are going to be happy to answer you. And of course, at the end of each session I'm going to be sharing it. Just a reminder, today's prize is the Sprint Master. So what you need to do to be eligible for a prize to participate in the raffle is follow me on Instagram at Hadar Accents Way if you're not following me already, share some kind of a post, a screenshot, a photo of you with the event hashtag and please tag me. So then if you have those two things, I can see it and put you in the raffle and every day we'll announce the winner of the previous day. So you have until tomorrow, like in the next 20 hours or 23 hours to post and then we'll announce the winner tomorrow. Okay, let's do this thing. Let's do this thing, my friend. Okay, back to questions. I'm going to turn off the slides and see if we have any questions. And yes. Okay, so Sarah Lee is asking. I have a lot in my mind, but it's difficult to express my thoughts while speaking with other people. How do I deal with that? So, Sara Lee, you are really describing the biggest challenge of the non native speaker, right? Like, there's a lot of. A lot of things going on, a lot of emotions and thoughts, and you want to express it, whether it's with your voice or with your words or, you know, just within English. And you feel limited. You feel like, you know, a lame version of yourself. That's the idea of, of, you know, doing, going through this journey so you can eliminate all those filters and barriers. So some of the. One of the reasons why that happens is lack of practice. You need to look at the fluency wheel and ask yourself, what is my speaking time? If you give yourself up until 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, it definitely means that you need more practice. If you want to get better at speaking effortlessly or retrieving your thoughts or feeling confident to say all those things that you feel, then you need to do more of that. Now, something else that I'm gonna suggest is that once a thought comes up, try to manage your thoughts in a way that, you know, sometimes we have an idea and another idea, and we're like. And someone is speaking to us and we want to answer them. And all of these, we start having these. All these thoughts in our head, and everything is a mess in our head. So of course, when it comes out, it's going to be a mess as well, because it's just a reflection of what's going on here. So sometimes you just need to manage your thoughts and not to jump from one thought to another and just like, be like, okay. Because again, you are the thinker of your thoughts. And if you're skipping from one idea to another, you can definitely narrow it down. So I would recommend the moment you see it, especially in a conversation, I would say, okay, just stick with one idea. Express it right. When you catch yourself thinking about something else, try to bring yourself back. Okay, I know it's hard. And again, this requires practice, and this requires you practicing speaking, focusing on that. And then try to complete an idea and try to speak, even if you don't know how it's going to end. Okay? And finally, everything that we're going to share in, in day number three about mindset is probably going to help you as well. Okay. Because it's also how you show up in front of people. Sometimes when we're afraid about. We're afraid of what people are going to think about us, then we start, you know, we black out. We don't really, like, have all these thoughts Anxiety, Right. And these are the things that we can manage through working on our mindset. So I think there is work to be done there. Work speaking time, managing your thoughts. Next question. Arkana. I'm from India and I've been studying English since middle school, but I still can't speak fluently. What am I doing wrong? Well, you're not doing anything wrong. Okay. And going back to the old way of learning and the new way of learning, probably the way you've learned hasn't served you or hasn't resonated with you or hasn't allowed you to thrive in it. Maybe there are a lot of limitations. Maybe the strategy was not right for you. Maybe there was no strategy. Maybe you were focusing on things that you never get to put into practice. Maybe you don't use English enough. So what I would recommend really is to take the fluency wheel. Assess your fluency elements, right? And focus. And when you see the lower scores, ask yourself what exactly is inside those elements that I. If that if I will improve, I will feel more free, I will feel less stuck. Right. Someone mentioned conditionals. I always go back to conditionals because I used to struggle with it a lot, dread conditionals. So, for example, so for me, when I used to speak, and every time I said if, my brain was like, would be like if you said if. Okay? So conditional, conditional, get into conditional mode, right? And that alone completely distracted me and completely distracted me from what I wanted to say. And then I got stuck, I got self conscious, I started stumbling, right. Simply because I haven't figured out properly and I haven't practiced enough. We'll talk about it tomorrow. The you know how to use conditionals. I haven't built the speaking habit of using conditionals. So think about it like this one small element. And when I did it, it took me 45 minutes to get it, to practice it, right? To become aware of it. And that's it, Right? Like that element that kept getting me stuck because I always use the word if was no longer a challenge. So think about it like a small step, right? Small effort, big results. Right? Small effort, big results. That's the idea of the 8020 rule. So this is what I want you to do. Okay. Shahad is asking, when I speak English, words don't come to my mind. What can I do? Well, like I said, I think it's about turning passive vocabulary into active vocabulary. We'll try to talk about it tomorrow. But I do have a video about how to turn passive vocabulary into active vocabulary. It means that you Know words. The frustration comes because you know you. You have those words, but you can't retrieve them. They don't come. Okay. They're not accessible. So you need to have a method and a system to move them from the subconscious part to the conscious part. And that requires effective practice. And there is like a system that I usually teach my students about how to do that. Right. But it's systematic and requires a lot of repetition, and it's based on the pronunciation confidence method. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Okay, let's see. How do I overcome too much focus on grammar when speaking English? May is asking great question. So people with tend to focus on grammar are people who are probably exposed to a teaching method that put a lot of emphasis on correct grammar. Right. Again, this idea of if you make grammar mistakes, that would mean that you don't know English or that your English is not good enough, or people are going to think that you're stupid. So first of all, I would encourage you to go a little deeper and to discover whether or not there was this belief that was implemented in you probably when you were a child or could be also in your native language. Right? The importance of grammar. Right. Not to make grammar mistakes. When, when you have that perception in your own language, of course you're going to apply it to English, you know, e like, and it's going to be duplicated. So if you have that, if you're. You were exposed to that, maybe parents or teachers or friends who are very critical about grammar mistakes that could create this, you know, obsession, obsession around using correct grammar. And again, the old way of using English is being afraid of making mistakes. Mistakes will get you punished to the new way of speaking English. Right. The new fluency, which means so what if you make mistakes as long as you're clear, as long as you communicate clearly. Now, I'm not. I don't live in la la land. You need basic grammar to structure a sentence, right? But if sometimes an S slips in, right, or you use had instead of have, nothing's going to happen as long as your message is communicated clearly. I've said it numerous times. I hear native speakers, influencers, podcasters, YouTubers who communicate in English. They make mistakes. Quite often, grammar mistakes. A lot of times it's just like a lisp or, or they, they don't like. It's a complex thought. So they start in one way and then they finish it and they don't remember the subject. And so sometimes it happens when you get into complex thoughts. People make mistakes because language is fluid and, and, and, and it could happen as long as you move forward. Now, getting stuck on that mistake that you made is, is really detrimental to your fluency. So mindset is a huge part of it. But I would also give you this practical advice of trying to figure out what about grammar that you're still, you know, frustrated with. Because when you say grammar, it's pretty general. But if you try to narrow it down, there are a few things about grammar that you are less confident in and a few things about grammar that you're super confident in. So try to identify those things that, things that you're not confident in and focus your learning and your learning strategy around that and how you can improve that and try to use the pronunciation confidence method to improve those areas. Okay, I'm interested in this question. Let's see. Question. I've never seen any teacher recommend it, but I came up with this idea of watching dubbed movies with English subtitles. I can understand the context. I have my own language as it's colloquially spoken in the English subtitles. What do you think about that? So you mean that you are watching the language in your native language dubbed, but you're watching English subtitles? I think it works on certain aspects of your, of your brain and the language, the way you perceive, like reading, right? Connecting words to written words. I also want to say that if it works for you, right, and by works for you, you've seen it, getting your results, you feel like you're improving after doing it, right, you feel that there are things that are making that are a little easier for you after, then I would say go for it. Because people brains work differently. And you know, some people might tell me that podcasts, you know, they've improved only by listening to podcasts and not putting it into practice. Very few. But, but there are people like that. So maybe for you it works. And if any way you're watch watching a dubbed movie, right. I think adding English subtitles can only help rather than not watching anything. But doing this instead of practicing spending speaking, I think practicing speaking would be better just saying, right? Like, I think active production is more important than passive consumption. And at the end of the day, even watching a movie in English is passive consumption. So I would always, you know, root for using English rather than consuming it. But at the same time, if you're doing it on the way, great. And if it helps you, great. How much time do we need to spend for practice on each day and how long? So I'm not sure if you're asking about the, the chat, the, the event itself, the fluency festival, or you're asking in general, I think you need to create to set a certain time frame during the day that is feasible. For some it's going to be 10 minutes a day. For others it's going to be 30 minutes. For others, others it's going to be an hour and a half. I always recommend to put an upper threshold so not to practice too much every day. I'm a fan of short drills, right. Hence the sprint. I'm a fan of doing like a 10, 15 minute daily practice, but doing it intentionally, focusing on quality, not quantity. And I think it gets you much better results like the 20% than spending an hour and a half practicing, but being distracted and doing other things. So ultimately I would say you know your number, you know how much time you have. If you don't, a few, let's say you have kids, you have a full time job, you barely have time for yourself. Asking you, asking you to invest half an hour a day is not, not feasible. And setting goals that are unattainable is not a part of the new way of fluency. Right. It's the old way. Setting high expectations, high goals that are almost impossible to achieve and then you feel like a failure. No, that's the old way. Set, you know, a time frame for yourself daily that you can, you know, that you can actually make happen. Consistency, that's the most important thing. Like I said. Even if it's five minutes a day and then one hour once a week. Okay. Vanessa says I watch Korean dramas with English subtitles. I'm a native Spanish speakers speaker and I feel like it helps me. Fantastic, right? It's, there is something interesting about not understanding the language and then you have to read quickly. I think it, I think it's great if it helps you again, it helps you with perception. Right. Reading comprehension, probably passive vocabulary and all of that is great too. Right. But it's not the what is going to move the needle in your speaking abilities, but it's part of the work that we need to do anyway, so. So maybe it's not part of the 20%, but it's definitely something good. And as I said, like if you're doing it on the way. Amazing, Amazing. Okay. How would you deal? Vince, I love your questions. Like I can, you know, we always talk about it. This is definitely something that you can bring up with Christina in one of her coaching sessions. She's very passionate about native speaker speakerism. How would you deal with active bigotry? Or discrimination coming from native speakers of English, for example, at the supermarket or at work. So I think that. I think that first of all, knowing your worth and just not letting it affect you, I know it's easier said than done, right? And I know that it affects us because this is something that is, you know, it's part of this broken world that we live in. And systemic racism is part of, you know, almost every single culture, but definitely in the US And I hear so much about, about native speakerism about, about racism against people with accents based. Because accents are not just, you know, they represent a certain culture or a certain color sometimes, and people create those stereotypes or have ideas about and opinions about these people without even hearing them. So I think that, you know, what I would do may not be right for you because for me, the way to resent that would be to probably speak back, probably get angry, probably to stand my ground, probably to put them on the spot, right? And to speak back and to say something like, you know, because. Not. Because if native speakers judge you as a non native speaker, they probably don't have this experience of speaking a second language. I feel that people who know what it's like to speak a second language cannot be, you know, cannot have, can, cannot discriminate as clearly non native speakers as, you know, people who don't speak another language. So I would probably speak up and put them in the spot so, you know, tell them what it like, just. They don't know that they're being racist. Right. Can I speak with someone else who speaks English? They don't think that they're being racist. They think that, you know, they deserve to be spoken to in a clear way or with an American accent. So creating awareness for them and holding a mirror in front of their face is part of the work that we all need to do. We do it all the time. And I think that we can do it individually because they're not aware of what it is that they're doing. And if they are, then probably these are people that I wouldn't be. I wouldn't even want to be around. And I would not go into, you know, teaching them because it's not my job. And I would probably, probably just leave as, as soon as possible and work on my mindset and really work hard on trying not to bring it. Try making sure that it doesn't bring me down. And we are, like I said, we're going to talk about it in mod in on day three. Okay. Because I think that responding to criticism or responding to racism and discrimination and all of that, how we respond to it and how we let it affect us is ultimately a choice. We can't control other people's thoughts and feelings and behavior, but we can create our experience, you know, responding and reacting to it. So since you don't have control and all you can do is put a mirror in front of their face and put them on the spot, then most of the work is internal. To make sure that it, you know, that you're reminding yourself your true worth and the fact that you deserve to be heard and probably even more, right? And that it's not going to stop you. And for me, when this is me, right? Like when, when I experience that, it gives me more motive, more motivation to speak, more motivation to prove them wrong, right? More motivation to show them that I'm going to succeed despite their behavior, despite what they think of me, even if they're. I'm not going to see them ever again. This is what drives me. And I have, again, like, that's a mindset shift. But right now I use it as a fuel rather than something that puts me down. Nico, when I'm practicing alone, I can speak with structure and I apply good vocabulary, but when I'm with friends, I don't have enough words to express, express my ideas. Nico, if, if, if you're able to achieve something on your own and you can't achieve it with. When you're in company, then the problem is not English, right? It's. You need to check again. Your internal state, nervous energy blocks words. Really. Like, I feel that when you get nervous, there is like this shield coming up and is blocking your brain. And all the words that are stored here, they can't access the front of the brain, right? And that's it. And then, like, you need, what you need to work on is not just the words here, but it's like bringing it down. Also practice. The more you have this experience of speaking with other people, the easier it's going to become. I always give this example. It's like me on video. When I first started making videos, I was not very confident, right? Like, I wasn't fluent. I used to make a lot of mistakes. I would get super nervous, definitely, you know, if I were to go live and the act of just doing it again and again and again and again and again and again. It allowed me to understand how I operate inside an uncomfortable situation, right? How I dissolve that, that filter, how I'm able to still process it, how I'm able to, you know, manage my negative thoughts. While I'm doing something. But you need the act of doing it to be able to learn how you can manage all this while doing it. Okay, so at the end of the day, it all goes back to speaking time. But while working on all the other pillars, like mindset in this case is going to support each other. This is why they all work together. All work together. And it's a really great way to understand what to focus on and to know that it's not like that your entire English needs to a makeover. No, it's just that there are certain elements that you know are not helping you free yourself up. So focus on those elements and with everything else that we talked about, habits, freedom, not being afraid of making mistakes. Because that's the only way to learn that is going to help you get past it and reach a breakthrough. Okay, I think we have time for one last question. Okay. The comments are so interesting here. Let's see. Alice is asking from Malaysia. I'm aware of the importance of clear English pronunciation, and I'm now learning the basics, which are the phonemes. But it's tedious and arduous and time consuming. And I'm not sure I do them all the wait, I need to. It's too small. Okay. And I'm not sure if I do them in the right way. I want to be committed and stay consistent with this. How can I achieve them and fall in love with pronunciation practice? Oh, this is such a good question. Because I love pronunciation so much. I think what makes the difference between tedious pronunciation practice and joyful pronunciation practice is knowing that you. You know what you're doing, right? Trusting that what you're doing is actually going to make a difference. It really goes down to understanding exactly what's happening here, what needs to happen, what you're not doing just yet, and what you need to do to get there. Right? This is why in my programs, it's not just that I teach my students how to make a sound. I teach them how to recognize if they're on the right track or not, so they gain back the power. Because when you are practicing pronunciation on your own and you're repeating a sound and you have no freaking idea if you're on the right track or not, there is nothing more tedious and more frustrating than that. But. And, and when you're practicing something and you're repeating the mistake, right, you're repeating the same pronunciation, thinking that you're changing, right? You're just creating those new speaking habits. New. You're creating muscle memory of the different pronunciation. Right. Of the. I'm going to call it a mistake. It's not a mistake, but it's not the sound that you're trying to achieve. Right? And that's what you're referring to. But if you were to know exactly every time what to look for and how to shift it, right, that would give you the power to know if you're on the right track or not. One and two, if you're on the right track, you're going to see results. And when you see results, oh, believe me, it brings you a lot of joy. And you're like, oh, I actually see that I'm building new speaking habits. Oh, I'm starting to use this when I'm speaking. I haven't even thought about it, but I've just used it spontaneously, Right? So first of all, that brings joy. Second, 20% within pronunciation, you don't need to learn all the speech sounds. A lot of them are not that relevant for you. A lot of them are so minor that they're not going to make a huge difference in your speech. And you're spending time doing them and you're not seeing the results and it's boring. My God, it's boring. But when you're focusing on sounds that you struggle with, that if you were to pronounce them or practice them, it would create a lot more effortlessness in your speech, then it would be easy for you and fun for you because you would say, see the impact that it has. Right? So I think that knowing where you're at and understanding what your mouth is doing and knowing what you need to do to change, that's one thing. And second thing, focusing only on the sounds that are important for you. And we'll talk more about that, a lot more about that tomorrow when we talk about pronunciation confidence. Okay, my friends, that's it. We are at the end of the two hours, and I just want to tell you that I love you all. There is a conversation group coming up very soon with Vika, a meet and greet where you get to know other people. So I'm excited for Vika and I'm excited for you guys to join. The conversation group implementation workshop is tomorrow as well as the day two live training. I'm going to be in the group. You can ask more questions there and share your insights in the group of. You know, what's the biggest aha moment that you had today? Share it in the Facebook group. If you're a part of the group, if you're on the website, you can share it in the comments. Thank you all so, so much. Take care and I will see you tomorrow. Bye.