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Read MoreLevel | LSE Class Level | Description | CEF level* |
9 | Very Advanced | I speak and understand English completely fluently. | C2 |
8 | Advanced | I speak and understand very well but sometimes have problems with unfamiliar situations and vocabulary. | C2 |
7 | Pre-advanced | I speak and understand well but still make mistakes and fail to make myself understood occasionally. | C1 |
6 | Upper Intermediate | I can communicate without much difficulty but still make quite a lot of mistakes and misunderstand sometimes. | B2 |
5 | Intermediate | I can speak and understand reasonably well and can use basic tenses but have problems with more complex grammar and vocabulary. | B1 |
4 | Low Intermediate | I can make simple sentences and can understand the main points of a conversation but need much more vocabulary. | B1 |
3 | Pre-Intermediate | I can communicate simply and understand in familiar situations but only with some difficulty. | A2 |
2 | Elementary | I can say and understand a few things in English. | A1/2 |
1 | Beginner | I do not speak any English. |
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How to improve your pronunciation and is it really worthwile?
So, let's return to our muttons!
WHAT WE’LL BE DOING HERE EXACTLY
We’ll be working together on the improvement of our knowledge of English. And firstly we’ll improve our pronunciation.
It can be done in two possible ways. The phonetists are disputing, but we have only to choose the most appropriate one for us:
- or we’ll be doing it through imitation, and learn it like children do – repeating exactly after the adults and trying to sound like them;
- or we’ll learn the pronunciation in the usual way – learning the positioning of our speech machine parts and the rules given and formulated due to the scientists' research.
- and - you can combine the both – what is the best – in my opinion.
I decided to give here both approaches – it’s up to you to decide what suits you better. So, here you’ll have them at your hand, thus you can easily understand and actually use them, namely to put the ideas into your daily practice.
1 - Believe me – Emma is beautiful! How does the Imitation Technique work?
2 – Do you know what is IPA?: International Phonetic Alphabet ( phonetic notation system ) (Wikipedia).
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The phonemic chart contains the 44 sounds of spoken English. It is an excellent tool for both learning and teaching about English pronunciation, but there is no easy way to type the phonemes with a normal keyboard. Use this site to "type" the characters by clicking with your mouse. You can then copy and paste to your software of choice, or even export the characters as an image using the save as image button. (Netty's issue)
Hope it’ll be helpful to you when having no Webster – e-book variant with a speaking out the words possibility – new generation chooses Whiscas…
So, DONE? Now your next step – go, PLEASE! (it will be omitted ever after – just not annoying me) to Google Play – English pronunciation – Awabe (vhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/category/EDUCATION) – it’ll do you no harm to work it out, and, in addition, you might be rather astonished by a mistakes quantity in your speech – all the time you have thought/read/knew it’s like this - and it just occurred to be like that…
So, download the prog – and make your own mistakes list. Hope it’ll be minimized to zero over time.
3. Pa-dam! And here is the combined method – attention! It’s really good, nevertheless seems rather strange at the beginning:
A.J.Hoge. Pronunciation Training Technique
I really like this guy – he’s so unusually weird and expressive – you ’ll remember him word by word! Do you know why? Because human most strange memory strengths are connected with our emotional life, as well as motor memory: here it is presented in the most interesting way…
Now, my dear friends, was it some help to you? Look here, there are some useful links. Just not to invent the bike – I prefer to give you the best in the Netty’s nets!
Break & Grab Method – Hear – Listen – Understand – and your Pronunciation will be improved!
And to be sincere – if you have nothing to do – DO IT HERE!
Matrix. Neo Pills - Neo & Matrix & These Best of the Pills - Do Your First Exercise in Imitation Technique – IT’S EASY
And I must say, there’s an opinion that you’ll never be able to get out of the accent, even very little noticeable.
OK – to tell the truth – what for? Do you mean to become a TV announcer or radio host broadcasting in Oklahoma State? Or an undercover agent somewhere in the some Shyre county of UK? And, by the way, as one French young man said – “Why? Russian girls are so charmed with my French accent!”
Well, as follows, being less than enthusiastic about your accent problem, let’s live in our expectations for the best!
PS! Do you know what psychologists say? That your well-designed limitations can actually improve your performance.
Working not 12 hours, but using your head, we’ll reach your goal! Forward, my awesome friends, for great things are awaiting us!
The theory on the foreign language learning - what is new and effective old in different approaches.
There are no rules in writing – but there are some unconscious principles instead – the principles of freedom and beauty. It will not be the easy way: you’ll begin to work harder than you had ever before.
IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT!
Or
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A WRITER?
Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back. – Chinese Proverb
Hello, everybody!
So, we have met and there is a point to put a bit of feeling into our meeting. It’s very non-English approach, but I just can’t help it: with all your fun and zest, passionately and without any fear, go ahead!
I would not burden you with problems: you don’t need mine, but I’ll take care of yours – the truth is of only one, concerning your fluency in English. Don’t be anymore this frightful person so much afraid to seem foolish when speaking English. Yes, sometimes it is going to be hard – you cannot be becoming better without working. So, we’ll keep up the good work even if it would ask us for some ‘midnight oil’ to be burnt…
We’ll put our priorities right: let me say I count myself lucky that your way coincided with mine… At last I’ve encountered somebody who could share my passion to the ‘belles-lettres’ subject. To tell the truth, last 20 years my main interest lay in the domain of ‘mechanics of writing’. Is this truth really sad one? NO, my friends, it says that, I am not old, but mature… I won’t boast, but only the best, and really worth of people attention books can give me that feeling of joy and excitement which had led me all through the life.
Suppose, it had brought a bit of interest into your life – then do not stop yourself getting excited… There are no rules in writing – but there are some unconscious principles instead – the principles of freedom and beauty. It will not be the easy way: you’ll begin to work harder than you had ever before.
As this is not our first meeting, I do hope you are feeling more confidently now.
Now, that you love your brain more, the next exercise is to build on this your ‘new-found land’ confidence.
Every writer needs one or two good tricks upon a sleeve. And here are some of them:
My understanding is that you want to do something nowadays in the field of writing – a thing completely New – let us say a contemporary Internet-essay. We All here are in some or other way Internet-people. When making a Search in the line we usually are reading articles – watching Adds – looking for words or notions – watching games – films – news – cartoons and pictures – then writing songs or scripts or poems/translations – and so on and so on… Yes, of course, it’s our leisure time, we can idle unconsciously while our mind is accepting the info and working, and working hard…That is how we receive this “being in mood”, where gist some traits of our personality character as well as in time – the character itself… Could you… Yes, you easily could to compose a recitation of your net-itinerary – and retell some story, and give your opinion, and transmit your attitude… Using different signs and colorful pictographs and underlining and circling striking out, writing words – logos – slogans, drawing the pictures, inserting audio- and video-files passages… How to represent it? Through video-films or presentations, but you need to bear in mind – it cannot be done in the usual format of a paper work – it’s good only in the Netty-format! Isn’t it a BEAUTY?!
This is Take & Use!!!
Today’s Task:
It is not about writing an essay – but it is a rather helpful exercise,
Because
We All Are Striving for Fluency!
It will help you to speak spontaneously:
Choose a word, which is used not too much and often, but has a lot of definitions (6-8 or more – till 15). Write a list of different meanings of the word, Google them all, read some odd materials, give your own thoughts –
And NOW – retell all you know about Every! Item!
This work is for an Hour or so – I ask you no more than that! Just not to be boring!
And of course, it’s your exercise for every day – in time it will be easier, only the beginning is rather cumbersome!
Ah, and what about essays? There are two ways:
Events Meetings Any possibility to become better in English Fluency
So, We Do Have Friends
in the Fields of Mastering our Fluency!
Here the Link for a week with Gabby Wallace & her Go Natural English: ( and be swift, PLEASE!!!)
http://www.gonaturalenglish.com/challenge
How to read/listen/understand fluent speech of native speakers, the methods and sources to use for your training.
‘Train – your - ears’ exercises
It will not be something like 1-2-3 training.
We’ll be doing it properly for a linguistic site. That means, there are some exercises to train our unused to a fluent and at a normal speed native speakers' language ears. They are simple. And useful – try and you’ll see!
Listen to the audio books – you can download the on the Play Market – believe me – they are great! And, by the way, you can read the content you are listening – a good help for the learners! Begin with children books or classic things, waiting or sitting, or riding but – not on the crossroads…
And there are these Big Talks, and TED, and different kind of masterclasses – with B-B-Beautiful English subtitles! And what are their themes and personalities! Welcome to the English-speaking World! Your efforts were worthwhile!
Uh-h!
NOW you’ve read it all and – as I suppose - have digested it properly –
Take Your BONUS:
The best 2018 world Song – Ed Sheeran – “The Shape of You”:
(Google the lyrics - read - translate – learn – and sing – or hum it, as you wish… In the kitchen – in the office – on the road – in the bus – in the train – everywhere and whenever you like – aloud or in your mind – as it suits you!)
It’s BEAUTIFUL!
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TELLING A STORY
Language is wine upon the lips. – Virginia Woolf
When you are learning a language, remember to slow down and enjoy the process. The language itself is often as enjoyable as the end goal.
If the choice is between being idle as before or doing your English, there is no contest for you now. I love encounters like this – they are not only doing wonders, but rather being them as well. Really, I do imagine how exhausted were you with all these schools and techniques and trends – and with rather poor results. OK, let it be – we’ll fail together, and we’ll fail better!
I created the blog just to recover myself and resurrect my dreams to become a real little corpuscle of the huge English World. This is a friend – mine and yours, as well as a mini-support system. System that won’t let you down.
There are several ways how to write a good story, and I think they are worth examining.
In the mainstream… Please, click on the link under the picture of the Sculpture Under The Sky – here you’ll meet... the Oxford Language School teachers – young and professional, they’ll show you how to do it properly – in the classic way. I would be glad to become a ‘classic story-teller’ myself… but my opinion is that it is very well, but such an approach seems to be somehow … uncool. Suppose I’m not being a bitch… A matter of taste…
Here is the known “jam technique” – a nice possibility to try your sand watch. As a matter of fact, mine, having sand enough only for three minutes, has to be turned over trice. You know, here jam is not the usually stolen stuff from the mother jar – I’m sorry, but it’s simply “just-a-minute” technique…
So, you have a theme, a watch, and only one minute. Try to remember all the words connected with your theme, breath in deeply, and… retell during the given minute all that you can and know about the theme. Do not stop until you time has gone like sand in your watch… Now you have three minutes to write down your key-words, your thoughts, some coherent sentences… Ready? There’s your second minute! Retell your theme, but do it more consciously, more coherent, like a text, not disconnected words, as it could be before…
Now you have again three minutes – improve your grammar, sentences structure, maybe insert quotations of any famous people – they always sound wisely, and sometimes are very much in the right place, you know… OK, now it’s your last minute… Ready, steady, go! Congratulations! In this game for one ‘beautiful you’ You were the best!
Imagine that you have encountered some old times letter, or … you have read a passage from some unknown novel, but... there’s no beginning… and no ending… What was the tale of the story? AND WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Who are the main heroes? And what was the climax of the story? Imagine this is a picture describing the story. Who is who here? Why do you think so? And – Oh, at last! Philologist PARADISE! Because – Why? Did? The Author? Put THIS WORD in THAT PLACE? What did he want to bring to us, Readers? Don’t you think it’s interesting? Or – This Is The NOW – time when the language itself is “as enjoyable as the end goal”? So, “slow down!’ and “enjoy the process”!
TIPS TO THE PRESENTATION
A VERY DECENT PROPOSAL
On my Blog Pages We spend together only 1H a day!
And you will receive in a year time
Your Proficiency Level!
Oh, Don’t Believe! I am not joking – it depends on your own pace of walk… Or trot… Or work.
Do Become Fearless while speaking English! Be like children are!
Don’t be afraid of Mistakes - Do remember – “Shit Happens”!
Here you’ll find all that you need – NOTHING to buy MORE!
Let me become your Friend holding your hand all through the journey,
Your Guide to the FLUENCY in English!
Our journey will be PLEASANT & EASY!
There is ONLY one obligation from your part:
NEVER BREAK A CHAIN!
Learn English bit-by-bit – but every day!
Stick with your habit!
NEVER postpone your Key Tasks!
Be diligent!
Learning in less time and with less stress
Has become our motto!
The maximum amount of value will be delivered to you in the minimum amount of time!
OK! What do you need here?
Headphones.
Notebook.
Pen & pencil & paper – as well as our motor type of memory which is prevailing.
Nothing more!
Use everything that seems useful. DO NOT FORGET about films/cartoons/radio broadcasts, as well as sitcoms, TV-shows, Big Talks, audio books etc… YOUR LIST OF BEST ENGLISH PLACES IN NETTY...
SOME USEFUL SOURCES
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. – Benjamin Franklin
Now then, here you are, this is your list!
Read it – and use everything that seems useful. DO NOT FORGET about films/cartoons/radio broadcasts, as well as sitcoms, TV-shows, Big Talks, audio books etc…
YOUR LIST OF BEST ENGLISH PLACES IN NETTY
Voila!
# | What | Title | Link | Note |
1 | Text-books & Manuals | Headway English for life Open Doors English File (Oxford University Press); Outcomes New Total English | Grammar Writing Vocabulary Auditions | |
2 | Grammar & Exersices | Oxford Practice Grammar English Grammar in Use | Grammar rules and Exercices | |
3 | Online Dictionaries | WooordHunt Reverso Context Cambridge Dictionary | Translation - context meaning –British/American pronounciation | |
4 | Service on your Vocabulary Training | Quizlet | Give your List – Have a Task Free Registration | |
5 | Radio | BBC Learning English | Facebook subscripton | |
6 | Video sources | Ororo.TV You Tube Channel Google Arts & Culture | ||
7 | English speaking exchange sites | MyEnglishTeacher.eu Speaky HowDoYou.Do Coeffee.com Easy Language Exchange LingoGlobe Coffee Strap Tandem Busuu.com Language Exchange Project | ||
To be continued |
You cannot even imagine how happy I am to see the back of it! I mean that I am so glad … to begin my blog! At last!!!
I cannot say there won’t be any articles any more – but then I’ll be rather a volunteer, and all the stuff you’ve read before was a strongly “MUST HAVE’’ – CONDITIO SINE QUA NON! Won’t you agree that we had to understand each other speaking the same ‘notional’ language?
And what about you, MY Dear Friends? Of course I do care about our conversations, meetings and talks; I have invited you, imagined and even invented you! How could I leave you now – having devoted you so much time and efforts, having cherished every your imagined by me first step? Don’t you see how much I do care about My Imagination – the God’s Gift for me?!.
The core of this part of my blog gists in the presentation #1 items - and the support can be given by other tools and means, such as mandala drawing, affirmation pronouncing, meditation training -and some else techniques...
Some Useful Tools
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin |
Very sensible advice. Now it’s time for you to get involved in our journey.
Our Today's Tools Are: Presentation from disc - Link/picture of mandala for learning…- Link for some good affirmations…- And just in words: Language is in my Heart! I Get a Little Better Every Day! I Grow with Every Word I Say! I can speak English very well Learning English gets easier and easier! |
Some ‘helping tools’
In this journey we’ll take to our ‘kit in mind’ the tools which are necessary – simply, they’ll become our ‘must have’ since NOW!
Pa-dam – and you have it – the beautiful habit - to draw a mandala every morning! IF IT WAS USEFUL FOR Carl Jung – it won’t do you any harm, believe me! Well, if you are not in mood to tame a new habit – like to draw… these pencils… and sheets… of paper... it’s so childish… – just have a look at the beautiful prints – they say the East monks began the tradition to draw them on sand. You may paint them – anyway, a good distraction and even HELP IN STRESS SITUATIONS! Can you imagine – it helps in the test preparations, stress situations and so on… and just to become more focused on the task – of, let us say, English language learning:
Having a focus, we can perform at our best in every activity we want to do. And we’ll be able to do it properly – that is not being like under pressure, but in the most natural way.
So, just find a quiet and remote place where nothing will disturb you – NOW breathe in for 1-2 counting – then stop your breath to 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 counting – and breath out for 1-2-3-4 counting – Do It several times until you and your mind are relaxed just enough to begin…
You may imagine a vast calm lake surrounded by the forest trees, the sun is rising, the morning is peacefully nice, no thought is coming to your mind… and if it comes – just put it beside – till then…
Or... just watch: Meditation for better learning - learn the language twice faster!
Or… you may take a watch counting the seconds – let it count them 2 minutes – think nothing – just contemplate its face…
Or… you may burn the candle and be watching its flame for 3-5 minutes…
Whatever you like. Choose!
Or… just a glass of cool water – and we’ll begin?!
Hm-m-m…
PS. Have you seen there, in the right top corner, a link ‘Presentation’?
Take not more than 3 first pages of presentation. Choose key-words, examine each with help of Wikipedia. Let it be 10-15 items – present us your opinion in your own words. OK?
Well done, WE ARE THE BEST!
Hope these videos will make you feel omnipotent! And some Expressions as well!
I put these three videos just aiming to your inspiration: it is not about drawing and how to be or become an artist. It's rather about how to be your beautiful self according to the Saviour plan for your holy person!
How a Drawing a Day Has Changed My Life
Be Afraid to Do Nothing at All
In doing things when we are alone we usually aren't afraid to be ourselves - sometimes we aren't speaking this very posh teachers or bookish English at all - as a matter of fact, only 1% of English speaking people are using the Royal (standard) English. So, I mean, the things below will be appropriate here:
English Exclamations
Some Useful Proverbs & Expressions
So, Learn & Use!
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Here are some songs for you to learn and to sing them everywhere where it seems to you suitable: there are the singers biographies, you can listen or read, o ... maybe both - it's up to you! And we'll begin our films watching sessions - for the first time it will be some cartoon, but which one!
Read MoreHere you'll be acquainted with an American visiting Australia and find out about the differences in the pronunciation - the Australian one is very much like in UK! And the joke is a classic example of the British -German relationships! The task with a landscape description is the most Precious, as I personally think...
Read MoreWinter Time - and a new and well known Song - you'll be glad to have the lyrics before your eyes. As well as funny Australian video - in Australian English I suppose... I don't know, I am learning with you... And how many prepositions and phrasal verbs are there in EL? A new method to plan your not cramming way of learning... Mispronounced Words - very useful video - always watch when you see the title!
Read MoreTed talks with good pensees how to succeed in life; some phrase verbs as well as new source of learning easily and informatively - Play phrase.me; and a real bless for language learners - an article of Dictionary.com about most requested and some new English words in 2018! And a beautiful and meaningful song - Imagine Dragons - Natural!
Read MoreHerewe'll be listening songs -singing songs - learning slang and just opposite words - and about connected - not a robot-like speech. Welcome, my precious!
Read MoreRepetition is our everything! Repeat the tenses! And learn another portion of slang words - for your better understanding of American movies! And here is a new Venom-like rap song for you - it's smth about SWERVING...
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