The Live English Show: Acting Workshop With Hadar

Welcome everybody to the live doing. I accidentally just turned off my mic. Say hi in the comments. So I know that you're here. I hope your day is going well. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good night for some of you. And I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for joining me. We have an exciting session today. If you want to connect with your inner actor and if you want to see how powerful it is to work on your English through scenes and monologues and scripts and to give yourself the freedom to not be yourself for a little bit. That's a lot of fun as you'll see with the three beautiful ladies that we have today. Hey, we have from people from Vietnam here. Minh, wait. Okay, cool. Good evening everybody. Lorena is in the house. Good to see you. Hi, Amar. Now listen, I want you to share in the comments one good thing that happened to you this week since the last time we met on a Thursday until today. Share with us in the comment comments one good thing that you're happy about or you're grateful for. I mean, these are crazy times and I know that a lot of you are already tired from everything that is going on in this world culturally, health wise. But we're here. We're here and it's an opportunity to connect and, you know, still go for the things that we love and we care about, even if it's just a conversation in English. And I'm grateful for being able to connect with you here today. So tell me music. Hi, Roberto. Yeah, so share with us what is one thing that you're really happy about that happened to you this week? Jennifer is here. We have people from Ireland, Uzbekistan, Angola, India, Egypt. Love it. Okay, cool. So by the time you get ready, Taylor Swift's new album. Awesome. I'm very well, thank you. Oh, you found me. That's a good thing. Very excited. Okay, so it's a good opportunity to make sure that you all know. Wait, no, let's not do that fancy scroll. But that you all know about my live event. If you know and you already registered, let me know in the comments. Say yes. Yes, yes in the comments. If you have already registered for my online my live event that's called the new Sound of English. Now if you have then great. If you haven't, then click this link, go to hadarchemish.com live event and go check it out. It's a full week, seven day event filled with activities. I'm going to deliver a core training about how to master English through building Pronunciation confidence. We are going to have workshops, implementation workshops with my coaches to help you implement what I teach you so you'll get more support in coaching and direction. In addition to that, we're going to have conversation groups, improv classes, and I'm going to have a workshop about vocal placement. It's called does Vocal Placement really Matter when Speaking English? And it's going to be with Samara Bay. You must know her, she's already been on the live English show and on my channel and she is remarkable. You are absolutely going to love that. And she's going to do some one on one coaching to a few people who are going to volunteer and work with her. So all of that and a lot more, we're going to have some prizes and sprints, which is a 10 minute drill every single day that I created based on my method of mastering English through building pronunciation confidence, which I think is like such a powerful way to master grammar and vocabulary and of course pronunciation. So this drill, it's called a sprint, is designed to help you really get started with your day and free up a lot of things, get things out of your way when it comes to speaking English. So there's going to be that and activities that you need to prepare and create and post it. Very effective activities. And you know, we have surveyed many, many of our students asking them what they need for when it comes to improving their English and not just pronunciation, but also, you know, because I work a lot with pronunciation, I really do feel that this is a major part of understanding other aspects like grammar and vocabulary. So it's, we took everything that we've learned about what they need and we put it into this seven day live event. And I think it's going to be a lot of fun. And the content is only going to be available for a short time, only for two weeks. So you better join and if you miss out on it, thank you Amar for sharing it. If you're gonna miss out on it, don't worry because we will share the, we will share the recordings. But again, it's going to be available until August 7th. Okay, so let's get started with what we are here today. I'm just gonna take a quick look at the comments. Hadar Is it necessary to speak English? I guess nothing is necessary. But the question is, does English serve you? Do you need English to change something about your circumstances or your life or your job? Are you intrigued by it? Do you love it? I mean, it's not a must. Nothing is a must. Nothing is necessary. Eating Healthy is not necessary. I mean, it is sort of because, you know, it is about your health. So let's think about going to the gym is not necessary, but it's good for you. So it's all a question. It's a very personal, individual question. Amanda says yes, yes, yes. I can't wait. But I don't know the time. And when will it start? Well, it starts on Monday and the first training is going to be. We're going to invite you to join the group tomorrow. There is a private Facebook group. You don't have to have Facebook to get all the information and join the zoom calls and the training, so don't worry about that. But if you do have Facebook, then join the Facebook group because it's a lot of fun. I don't know if you know my challenges, but they are a lot of fun. And I get you to do weird things too. So, anyway, I will invite you to the group tomorrow and share the calendar. The first event is on Monday at 9:00am New York time establishment. And after that, there are several different events all throughout the week. So it doesn't matter what time zone you are in, you will find something that will fit your schedule, I promise, because there are a lot of opportunities and of course, there are the events that are ongoing all day that you can just post and hopefully get feedback from the community and also from my mentors and coaches. Okay, now we are going to go into inviting my beautiful students. So I'm going to tell you a little bit about what, what we're going to do today. Let me take this out. As you know, I have a program, my signature program called Accent Makeover. We do a lot of different things there. And of course, again, it has to do with building pronunciation confidence and improving your clarity and confidence. But one of the things that we do there is. There is a part where we practice what I call power speeches. Power speeches. I base it on the power pose, where it's a theory that says that if you stand in a powerful position for a few minutes a day, it actually starts to activate more. You start feeling more courageous and confident simply by changing your posture. So, for example, if you sit like this or like this, you. It might generate less of these emotions in comparison to opening up, spreading your hands and legs, and kind of taking up more space. That's the power pose. If you don't know that TED Talk, then go ahead and Google it. It's really great. So I based the power speech on that and I said, okay, if it works with your physical body. Why shouldn't it work with your voice and with your English, Right? Like how you express yourself in English? So what we did is we curated a list of powerful speeches. Speeches where, you know, the characters either yell or they say things that people normally don't say. And that is aimed at, like, getting them out of their comfort zone and trying out new things, and also feeling, or having that experience of feeling powerful, using someone else's words. Right. And even yelling or saying things they would. Wouldn't normally do. And the results were amazing. And because it worked so well, I offered. As you know, I'm an. I have trained as an actress, and I have worked as an actress when I lived in New York, so I have a lot of theater training. And I said, well, why don't we do some activities around that? And I started doing these acting workshops for my students, and it was a lot of fun. What we're going to do today is we're going to show you how we actually do it and how we work. Because when we work on a text in English, we really focus on, you know, how to say the words, the vocabulary, the grammar, and when it comes to pronunciation, then it's about the sounds, making sure that you're, you know, using the sounds of English, if you want to become more clear and infliction and stress and what words you want to stress to move the conversation forward. But it's very logical, right? Like, it's technical. What are the content words? What are the function words? But when we do these exercises, we discovered all of a sudden that all of that can happen without focusing so much on the technical stuff, like looking at the text on what words to stress, but instead focusing on the emotional aspect and also understanding the character's objectives. Where is she coming from? What is she experiencing? He or she? Why is she saying what she's saying? And sometimes when the intention is there, then the voice is a lot more connected and the energy is totally different than just practicing something, reading. And finally, something that is also really important. The stressed words. Instead of thinking, content words, function words, all of that. Like, what are the words that I want to stress? All of a sudden, when you know what you're trying to say, all of a sudden you realize that it comes naturally. And if it doesn't, then it's much easier for us to see what are the things that you really need to work on. So that's what we're going to do today, and I'm going to invite our first guest, and that is Nysla. Okay. So please give her a round of applause.

Hi. Can you hear me?

How are you doing?

I'm doing good.

Yes. Wait, I need to put my. I need to. I need to. Yeah, yeah. So just a sec. Otherwise you'll hear an echo, I'm assuming.

Yes.

Hi.

Hi. How are you?

How are you doing?

I'm doing great. I don't hear the.

I'm very good. So why don't you. No, because now it's okay, I think. Naisla, do you want to introduce yourself?

Oh, yeah. Well, I'm kind of nervous because this is my first time, like, doing this in front of many people, but I still feel like there are many people out there. Well, my name is Nysla.

It's just you and me here. It's just.

Okay.

Yeah.

My name is Nysla. I'm from Peru, so my native language is Spanish. I was in Peru. It's kind of complicated. I don't know how to explain this, but I moved here six years ago, but after that, I went back to Peru, and I was there for maybe eight.

Wait, when you say. When you say here, I don't think. When you said here, I don't think you mentioned where. United States. Yeah.

Okay. Sorry. So I moved to the United States six years ago, and after that, four years ago, I went back to Peru, and I was there for almost a year. Well, eight, nine months. And after that, I moved back to the US three years ago. And so I feel that when I was in Peru, I kind of lost my English because I wasn't practicing a lot. I was just talking to my friends in Spanish and everything. All the conversations were in Spanish, so. So I feel like I lost my English. Well, but also I kind of struggle.

You haven't lost it.

I know, but still, I can understand people really well, but I feel like I have this strong accent, and for the reason I'm here, I'm trying to learn those tricks so I can be better. And people kind of don't judge me because I still feel that out there. Sometimes people can have a hard time trying to understand others, you know? Yeah. Here in the US Sometimes they have a hard time, but understanding other.

But do you. But have you. But have you personally felt this, or is it a fear that you haven't felt yourself, but you think it's. It exists?

Well, I think, like, I felt it when I came here. I feel that people old who grew up here, and probably they are 60, 70 years old, and they are not used to hear accents, so they have a hard time Trying to understand a person like me because they are not used to that new, like, way that I speak. I don't know. So I felt it.

Okay. And. And as I. As I always say, you know, like acquiring a new accent or learning another accent is just a tool, right? Like, it doesn't need. It doesn't mean that you need to change or transform because others can't. Are having a hard time. But it's just like a tool because if you need to get something, then it's good that you know how to speak that language. Even though when I say language, it doesn't necessarily just mean the words, you know, and the right grammar, but also how you say it and how you stress it and like, the sounds that you use again to get what you want. So I totally get why this is important. And, you know, with acting training, I think it's also important to know that you. It's yours to have if you want to use it. Right? Like, you can put it on and take it off according to the situation, because it really is. It's not about, like, transforming your identity and all of that, because there is no need for that. There's nothing wrong with, you know, being someone who has an accent because it's like, you know, there is a saying that says an accent is a sign of bravery, because that's what it is. So what I want to do today, Naisla, what is the monologue that you're going to that you brought here today?

Okay. Jennifer Aniston's speech from the morning show.

Great. Now there is a slight delay, so I will. Yeah, I think something about the Internet connection. We'll do our best with it, right? Like, if there is a problem, I'll let you know. But why don't we just get started? I'll let you go through it for a little bit and then I might stop you. And then we'll start again with a few notes. Okay?

Okay, sounds great. So I'm going to start right now.

Yeah, go ahead.

Okay.

Do you know it by heart, by the way?

Yeah. I feel like sometimes I can forget something, but I will try my best not to forget.

Don't worry about it. Do you need me to have the. I'm going to have the text in front of me just in case. Okay. So if you need help with the words, I'll help you.

Okay.

Go for it, my love.

Okay. Are you done? The part you guys never seem to realize is that you don't power anymore. The new division is held up by my show and the Only thing keeping us afloat is me. Because guess what? America loves me. And therefore, I love. I own America. It seems pretty effing simple, but so easy for you guys to forget. You are not listening. I don't need to justify anything. You all are so convinced that you are the rightful owner of all the power that it doesn't even occur that somebody else could be in the driver's seat. Seed. And so we have to just gingerly around your male egos in order to not burst this precious little bowel. Well, surprise, I'm bursting it. We're doing this my way because, frankly, I've let your. You boys handle this long enough. Not the apology. You respect.

And people who are not in a position of power assuming the position of power. Right. Maybe for those who don't know it, talk about the situation. What happens, who is. Who is the person speaking? And who is in the room with her?

I think maybe it's the CEO. I haven't, like, watched the show, so I don't know.

But you know what? You don't even know. It's basically a woman, Jennifer Aniston, right in front of a room full of men.

Yes.

And the scene is. We're not gonna go into it, but, like, the scene is like, she has done something supposedly wrong, and they are waiting for her to apologize. Right. She's a news anchor, and she says, you know what? No. Right. So they expect her to say, oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And to be, you know, obedient, because. To assume that role of, you know, subversive woman, you know, telling the managers, okay, and yes, sir, whenever they expect something, ask something of her, but she flips on them. Right. So what is that character going through at that moment? What is the transformation that is happening? What is the emotion that is involved?

She doesn't want to be submissive. She just want to show them that also she can have the power, like, in that office because, like, the room is full of men. So they want to control her, but she doesn't want. She doesn't want them to control her. Not like she's. Like. She's saying, I'm not going to let you do that. For the reason she uses the word, like, I'm done. It's like, I'm not going to do this again.

Yeah. It's like she's speaking. She's talking about her narrative, but she's also talking about the narrative of women in general and people who have lost the power in the past, but they're gaining it back. Right. Have you ever had that experience where you were oppressed because of your gender, your. Where you're from, your language? Have you ever felt that? I mean, I guess we started this conversation with it, but.

Yeah, yeah, I think I have felt that way, like I said, for my English, because I feel that some people, sometimes they make those weird faces because you can know when somebody's like, oh, yeah, I kind of don't understand what you're saying, so they start making, like, a weird face. So. And that also can, like, cause harm to the other person, like me. So maybe I have felt that way, like Jennifer Aniston. Yeah.

So let's take that situation, which is really different. It could be small when it comes to acting. Like, you don't have to always think of big events, but those moments where you're like, you know, that little voice in you says, I'm not willing to put up with this anymore. Right. And if, you know, if it comes because not just because it's an English show, but really because you started the conversation talking about it like, you know, you always feel like you need to change because of them, because it's not enough. Because, you know, you feel that they don't understand you. How about to gain back the power? But in this case, use her words for it. But the emotion is yours, the experience is yours. Right? Like, you want to tap into your own experience, but use her words and then let's see what happens. Okay, so. And also think about, you know, all those times that you've been made to feel like you are not good enough and you should just, like, sit down and keep quiet. Even if it was, like, in school as a little girl, like, think of a specific.