Live: Invitation to my new training

Hello, hello everyone. Welcome to a surprise live. I'm going, I'm going live and it's a surprise, and I'm gonna wait for everyone to join to tell me that they are— they can see me and hear me. I haven't gone live in a long time, so I just hope that we, we get to do this together. Say hi in the comments if you can see this, whether it's on YouTube or on Facebook, because today I want to invite you to a new live training that I'm hosting. It's absolutely free, and I wanted to go live here just to tell you about it, to make sure that you've seen it. Okay, good. Thank you for telling me that you can see it. Good. So, um, today is Friday, October 9th, when I'm going live, and my training is tomorrow. So I have 2 classes that I'm teaching. Like I said, it's a 60-minute live training that is completely free, and there are 2 sessions on Tuesday. So first of all, if you want to see more information, maybe you don't have time to watch the entire, um, the entire video today because I'm going to give you a little taste of what we're going to talk about. Just click on the link below this, um, if you can see this link. Now let's make sure that we keep it for longer. Click this link, just go to hadarshemesh.com/training to save your seat. So that's the first thing that I'm inviting you to do. There's also a link somewhere here around this video so you can see it in the description. Um, so what I want to talk about today is really the experience of people who already know English. Maybe they live in an English-speaking country, maybe they have learned English, so they know English, they use it, they can have conversations. They are— they've spent time practicing and learning. And, um, I want you to think about the experience of already being, let's say, at an intermediate level or at a level where you could communicate, and then you get into that intermediate plateau, as they call it, where you feel like at the beginning you've made a lot of progress But all of a sudden you don't know what else you need to do to improve because you learn more grammar, but it doesn't change the fundamental grammar that you've already learned and implemented and you're doing a good job at. Um, maybe you have already, you're learning more words, but it's not like you have a lot of opportunities to use all those new fancy words. So you're like, what do I really do to start feeling better about English? And the thing about being at an intermediate level or someone who already has experience is that there is like this constant feeling as if your English is not good enough. Now, if you can relate to that or if you've experienced that before, let me know in the comments so I know that I'm not making this up. But really, like, think about this thing of, I know English, I can use English, I can get by, I can speak in a meeting, I can ask for directions, I can introduce myself. But if you want to go beyond, and if you want to really feel like you shine in English the way you do in your first language, this is where it starts feeling like it's never— it's never good enough. And I'm not even saying, oh, I don't feel like a native speaker, because it's okay. Like, you— if you have, you know, if English is your second language, nothing guarantees that it would feel exactly like it is in your first language. But you definitely want to feel freedom and confidence, right? And, and that ability to, to communicate without worrying about anything, um, or without second-guessing yourself or without judging yourself. And this is exactly what I want to talk about. So if you feel like your English is never good enough and it doesn't matter how much you improve, then maybe the solution is not just learning more English. Now of course it's part of the solution. I'm not saying learning more English doesn't help, but sometimes when you feel frustrated, when you feel stuck, when you feel like you're not developing or growing anymore, a lot of times you just try to more— to learn more English, more grammar, more vocabulary, more phrasal verbs, more videos, more expressions, more and more and more and more, and it just doesn't make the change that you wanted to make. So what if the problem isn't how much English you know? What if the problem is to identify what is causing you to use only a small part of the English that you know? So the problem is not the English that you know, because maybe you know a lot, but it just doesn't— it's not expressed as much as you would have liked it to, or in a way that is aligned with your actual level of English. So I have been talking about the gap for years, the gap between the English that you know and the English that you speak. So this is not a new concept. If it is for you, then I want you to like think about it for a second, this idea that there is my knowledge of English, how much I understand, how much I can understand when I read, how you communicate when you have to write, which is a lot easier because you have time to create the language, Right? Versus what happens when you need to speak spontaneously. And then when you speak spontaneously, all of a sudden it's a lot more limited. It's like it's not exactly aligned with how much that you know. So even though I've been talking about a gap for many years, recently I've been going deeper into this experience of being a non-native speaker, and I realized that it's not actually one gap. It's 3 gaps. Now today I'm going to introduce you to one. I'm not going to talk about it a lot, and I'm not going to go deep with solutions. You'll have to join my live training for that. So again, if you haven't joined the live training, let me put the banner, click the link, and I really hope to see you there. It's absolutely free, 60 minutes. You're gonna get a ton of value, and I'm teaching 2 on Saturday, October 10th. And 2 on Tuesday, October 13th. And that's it. I won't be teaching these classes anymore. So try to get your seat. And if you can't join live, you will be able to watch the replay after for a limited time. So almost for— I've been teaching for almost 2 decades, and I've taught probably close to 20,000 students who were actually studying with me, not even following me on social media. And I've had thousands of conversations and like diving deep into the experience of being a non-native speaker. And I realized that, like I said, there are 3 elements, 3 gaps that are really preventing you from being in that experience that your English is yours. And I want to share with you those 3 gaps. Now today I'm just going to share with you the first gap. And this is a gap that I have been talking about, and that is the language gap. Okay? The language gap is the first gap, and the language gap is the distance between how much of a language you understand, the words when you listen to people speak on TV or when you read, right? And how much you can access when you speak. So I'm also a learner of Spanish, right? English is my second language. Spanish is my third language. And I can tell you that I can read an entire book and understand almost everything, but then it would be a lot harder for me to understand others when they speak. But I will understand a lot more than is accessible to me when I need to speak. I don't practice Spanish on a regular basis, unfortunately. I don't use it. I'm not immersed in it. And as a result, my gap is really big. But I notice how well I understand and how these words are never going to be accessible because I'm not using them. So I have a very, very big gap. Now, I bet that if you've been using English, your gap is not as big as mine. In Spanish, but it probably exists. Probably when you watch a TV show and you understand most of the words, you're probably not using most of those words. Why is that? How to fix that? I'm going to talk about that in the training. Okay, so this is— even just to understand this gap, it would be extremely valuable for you to come in and to kind of like get the tools to improve that. Okay, because you have to remember that just knowing something doesn't mean that you can use it. I'm going to say it again. The fact that you know a grammar rule, the fact that you know a word, a phrasal verb, the fact that you've heard it and you remember what it means does not mean that it's going to be accessible for you. A few things need to happen for it to be accessible, and I'm going to talk about what that is and how to do it deliberately. But I will also talk about the 2 other gaps, and this is where we're going to go a little deeper. And we're gonna go into understanding your mind, understanding your experience, and understanding your ex— like, the experience of existing between more than one language, between 2 languages, 3 languages, and sometimes between 2 cultures, especially if you've immigrated. So all of that is something that we can all of a sudden put on a spectrum and start looking at it and Exploring that and identifying what gap is the biggest gap for you. Because once you recognize it, you can start putting all your focus towards that problem, that challenge, instead of shooting in all directions and not seeing results when you need them. Because that is the most frustrating thing, I think, in the world, where you are actually doing the work, you are practicing, you are learning, you're doing the work, and you are not getting the results that you deserve. You're not seeing the impact, and you feel like you're somewhat in the same place, and maybe you're growing a little bit but not enough. So I want you to discover those 3 gaps, to get to understand what those are, to, to reflect on your own experience through that lens of those 3 gaps, and then to get the tools on how to close them. And all of that is going to be taught in those 60 minutes Either tomorrow, Saturday, October 9th, or Tuesday, October 13th. I'm teaching 2 classes each on each day, and after that, that's it. I'm probably not going to teach this class for a while. And if you've been following me, you know that I've, I've had a 7-day challenge that was absolutely remarkable. I think I'm going to make a video about it soon just to tell you more about it, because the experience and what happened to the students there, because the, the transformation of people just deciding to show up and deciding to be consistent, even if it's just for 7 days because it's easier. And what came out of it is just mind-blowing. I'm still processing it, so I will share more about that in the future. But in the meantime, I want to tell you that the lesson that I'm teaching on Saturday and on Tuesday is one of the last trainings that I've taught that kind of like pulled a lot of the things together. So if you weren't able to join The challenge. This is going to be like a nice highlight of like the key teaching that I was that I was sharing in that challenge. So this is a great opportunity. I really hope to see you there. So I'm gonna put the link again right here for you to join me, and let's see. Ah, good question. Don't you live in Barcelona? Why don't you use Spanish on a daily basis? Because I work online, so most of my work is on my computer with my, um, with my students, with my team. So everything is in English. I definitely go out and I speak to, you know, like in a restaurant or in the supermarket, very basic conversations, but I don't have like a very, um, strong, big community that I was able to build because of my lifestyle and because I'm very, very busy. So I, I wasn't able to invest in building a community here yet. So I do use Spanish to get by, but that is not enough for me to minimize the gap because I need to talk about things and I need to explore things and I need— which is like, I don't get to— I have— I create those opportunities deliberately, but not in my day-to-day because of my lifestyle and because of my work, which I love. Like, I love working online and I love having a remote team, and clearly my work is in English, but I wish I could have a little bit more work only in Spanish so I could close my gap as well. But now we're talking about your gap in English, and what I'm suggesting is to understand that for yourself and to see how you can create that for yourself. All right, my loves, so thank you so much for jumping in. If you're watching the replay, great, and we're gonna keep it up until Tuesday. So if you're seeing this, it means that you can still sign up for my live class. And sign up, save your seat. Worst case, you'll get a link to watch the replay. But if you join live, I also have a gift for you, which is a list of conversational phrases focusing on connected speech. It's a gift that I love to give my students who join me live. So So if you join my live, you will be able to get that little free gift. So the 3 gaps between the English that you know and the English that you speak, how to identify them, how to identify your biggest gap, and how to start closing them. Um, and it's not as challenging or as demanding as Thinking about going from B2 to C1, right? Like, it's not a linear experience, like, you know, like how we perceive fluency, like the conventional perception of fluency. So I'm, I'm sure you're going to be intrigued. So I hope to see you there. Thank you so much. Have a beautiful weekend, and, um, and I'll see you around. Thank you everyone. Thank you for watching.