Saying Goodbye, Creating A New Life & Learning To Belong Again | Life As An Immigrant

Hey everyone, it's Hadar. Thank you so much for joining me. Today we're going to do something slightly different because today I want to share with you what is the project that we are going to focus on in 2022 to help you speak English with clarity, confidence and freedom. This project is going to deal with the immigrant experience. Let me explain. Over the years, I've worked with thousands of students from around the world and usually people have different needs for why they want to improve their English, whether it's for personal reasons or just for fun, or because they have to work in English and they want to improve. Maybe it's for school and sometimes it's needed for survival, especially in the case of immigrants who have immigrated to an English speaking country. Now, over the past few months, I've noticed that in my signature program, no Sound, there were a lot of students who have immigrated to an English speaking country. Now, all of those students had of course, different stories, but they also shared a lot, lot of similarities in their experience in the new place that they have moved into. New and sometimes not so new place, but also similar challenges in their English communication. And this is what we realized, that English is never just detached from your entire experience as an individual and a human in this world. And when we understand those connections, it's much easier to solve a lot of the challenges that we experience in different aspects in our lives and in this case in English communication. So what I want to do in the immigrant experience project is to go a little deeper and try to understand that experience. Because at the end of the day, you know, each immigrant has a story to tell, whether it's about what they had to leave behind, what it took for them to get to the new place, the challenges that they're facing, their bravery stories, and so much more. And what I've come to learn is that those experience impact immediately on the person's ability to communicate in English or the person's beliefs about their capabilities in communicating in English. And I think that we need to open up that discussion and try to understand that a bit more. And now the way we're going to do this is throughout the year, we are going to share stories of immigrants that will talk about their challenges and how they were able to overcome those challenges. We will bring guest experts to help you understand how to deal with microaggressions and micro inequalities, things that immigrants often experience when they move into a new place that need to belong, how to be a powerful communicator, how to get a better job or to interview better and so many other things. And to do that, I actually need your help. If you're an immigrant or maybe you're thinking of immigrating to a new place, I want to hear your story. I want to hear what are your obstacles, what are your challenges, what are your success stories. Because first I would love to give you the stage to share that on this platform, whether it's on my YouTube channel or the influencee podcast, the influency Community or on Instagram Hadiya are that accents way. But also I want to see if you have any questions for me or share with me what you think we should talk about within this discussion. The ImmigrantExperience now, if you're not an immigrant or you're not thinking of immigrating and you just want to improve your English for work or fun, do not worry. We are definitely going to continue talking about learning strategies and effective practice and mindset and pronunciation of course. But we definitely wanted to add that element and start that conversation about the immigrant experience. So I'm really looking forward to this. I can't wait to hear what you think. Thank you so much for being here and I will see you next week in the next video. Bye.