Анита научит | English

THIS is not to be missed! ✨

What a brilliantly insightful, transparent and therapeutic fluid conversation. All of these ladies are so down to earth and authentic. Came for Angelina Jolie first, though, — her poised, magnetic and full-of-wisdom aura with graceful demeanor. Her observant character is so me! ❤️‍🩹

The majority speaks American English, and Tilda has a British accent.

Other than being so profound, this is a gem language-wise too!

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/yG9KMfYfgEo?si=8t3juRkUUH5RF461

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Для тех, кто хочет говорить без иностранного акцента и звучать более профессионально…

Я создала курс по британскому произношению: оно у меня развивалось с раннего детства and hence it's more accurate, no doubt.

What I love most about my course? ❤️
💗live занятия со мной каждую неделю — не только pre-recorded video lessons
💗личная обратная связь от меня в каждом тарифе!
💗voice чаты со мной
и самые приятные цены с новогодним спец-предложением.

Детали и запись по ссылке: http://anitakopian.tilda.ws/pronunciationcourse
Стартуем 17 января. Места ограничиваю 😭

Let’s master pronunciation and reduce your foreign accent in just 10 weeks! See you!

Here's the Quizlet set with B2-C2 vocabulary from the post!

Hope you find this helpful,
Hugs 🥰

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On memories 📚

How can we learn not to overlook the brain's inexplicably immense power to protect our memories, both recent and remote? and then turn them into either long- or short-term memories?

If only there was a chance to take over! I've once read somewhere that the brain subconsciously blocks out things that it conceives to be harmful or unimportant for us to remember. How do you know, your majesty? I might be a peasant, but have I ever relinquished my right to choose what to protect as a core memory that is shaped from my personal life experience?

Nothing to worry about, but I'm afraid I've been experiencing epic memory lapses. According to scientific research, these usually stem from various reasons including stress or presciption medications. I'm particularly disoriented and alarmed by this. How?

I scroll through my camera roll and can't clearly identify or recall numerous events that just happened last year. My mind genuinely goes blank, and I'm left unanswered. What am I doing in SPb? Why was I crowdfunding? Who is this lady I'm dining with?... I can fully grasp that our early-years memories are inaccessible to those of adulthood, but... can I at least revisit those moments of contentment that happened to me a little while ago?

When I share this, I'm usually asked: "How do you not forget the languages you speak then?" 🥲 Languages are stored in a different part of our brain. And we can start forgetting them too, which eventually interferes with our abillity to articulate our thoughts, but that's a different story.

Фух. Поделиться папкой Quizlet со словами и фразами из поста?

#наукаговорит #запискитрилингва

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Language Use 💗

• the resemblance: to share pain = to unbandage a raw wound
• to have a lot on the plate / to complete errands
• to contemplate (about sth)
• miserable / pathetic
• immensely grateful
• to appear as
• extraordinarily timid (about doing sth)
• lingering / persistent
• pain tolerance
• to shove feelings away
• to keep the pain locked in

Take care and I hope you don’t stuff that pain down. Find any other therapeutic alternative if sharing with someone feels intimidating 🫂🫶🏼

a pseudo-podcast with my late-night thoughts on sharing pain ❤️‍🩹

Very excited to share news!

В инстаграме уже рассказала о предстоящем webinar ❤️

ссылка для записи — в конце

Topic: “Pronunciation tips and practice to improve your accent”

Content:
💗vowel enunciation
💗consonant enunciation
💗other errors: devoicing, lack of aspiration, softening

Во время каждого раздела — практика. И плюс в конце я выберу двух желающих для прочтения пары предложений and will provide feedback!!

This is free of charge if you join online. После того, как вебинар закончится, и я загружу его на платформу, он будет платным 🫶🏼

📎 You can leave your contacts here to join:
https://forms.gle/KnmBBYaeM231LUVk8

Можете также звать с собой друзей! (нас уже более 50 человек 🥰)

По поводу избавления от привычки переводить я раннее отправляла tips — тыкните выше ❤️

Here's what I can also add, directly related to your learning journey:

💗You see a new word — look up for pictures (Google images) and only then its definition (rather than translation). Read examples for context and use in speech. I recommend using the Cambridge dictionary.

💗А если ищете слово для перевода с русского — попробуйте в поисковике описать слово на английском. Например, пишите "what to call someone who can't be happy for others" вместо "завистливый". Я так недавно искала, как называется "the bar you hang curtains on" 🤭 Попробуйте!

💗Say a word or sentence in English out loud and then immediately picture the word/situation. Например, говорите "I'm flying to Morocco tomorrow" и представляете уже билеты с расписанием и дату, так как это время в будущем используется для точных планов и событий. Помогает создавать связь с грамматическими конструкциями и вокабуляром.

💗Мои ученики подтвердят, что мой мозг не ассоциирует слова на русском со словами на английском. Именно поэтому, когда они нечаянно спрашивают на русском, то с улыбкой наблюдают how I imagine myself in a situation using this word or acting it out to finally say it in English. К чему я? Act words out and play scenarios to help your brain detach from the mother tongue and build a strong connection with your emotions and body language.

Так горжусь, когда вижу, как ученики, записывая слова или спрашивая слово на уроке, объясняют на английском, а не переводят 🥹

Anyway, this tendency to translate is fading over time. It just might take a while, and that's ok ❤️

Let me know if anything is new or works well for you too!

Перевод при изучении языка: yes or no? 🥰

Very debatable.

Translation is an incredibly impressive skill to me. But I don’t find it to be an effective way of learning a language. In fact, I believe it hinders the student’s path towards fluency… 💔
Я сама почти не практиковала/ую перевод, and that’s why it’s not part of my teaching approach.

Side note: even though it’s almost imperative for an adult brain to translate the target language into mother tongue when we talk about beginner students, more advanced learners might need this done solely to avoid misunderstanding.

My conclusion: the teacher’s job is to help reduce influence from the learner’s first language.
You have to start thinking in English eventually anyway 🥹

Рассказать, как начать не переводить? (для учеников выше В1 более актуально) ❤️

Halloween watch! B2+ 🌟
animation, not for kids

🟣Over the Garden Wall
I discovered this one by word of mouth! A student and then friend of mine asked me whether I'd seen the series. By now, I've only watched a couple of episodes BUT... the way they ridiculously word the dialogues is what keeps me entertained. The storytelling skills of the director are beyond my comprehension!

By the way, here's an article that compares this series to Dante's Divine Comedy (уверена, мои читатели знают о "Божественной Комедии" Данте) 📕

🟣Life as a Zucchini
Nothing to do with Halloween itself, but the movie is so cold, empty and... quiet, which evokes quite unsettling emotions and provokes eerie thoughts as you're watching it. As the plot unfolds, you can pinpoint an endless number of social issues and aspects of human development, age-wise. 💔

🟣ParaNorman
Apparently, I have it on my have-seen list and it says I enjoyed it. Sadly, not a single bit of the movie comes to my mind… 🙂‍↔️ Though according to Google, ParaNorman is a story about a boy from an ill-fated town that’s under a deadly curse. After reading a few quotes from the movie, I crave to rewatch it now:

“There’s nothing wrong with being scared, so long as you don’t let it change who you are”
“You want everyone to hurt just as much as you are”

« We humans have learned to control the world outside us, but we had very little control over the world inside us »

« …we don’t understand the complexity of our own minds… »

What an astonishing non-fiction piece!! Haven’t finished it yet though 🥹

Много о политике, в которой я не разбираюсь и не желаю разбираться. Но она преподносится так, что я и не вспоминаю about my political ignorance. I don’t avoid learning about it here because it’s so well-integrated into the narrative.

И очень много гениальных yet also so obvious thoughts, analogies (!!) and questions.

On a side note, попрактикуем произношение by reading a short paragraph from the book?
British — ❤️, neutral/American — 💘

B2+ Quizlet set готов! ☀️
Thank you for your patience 🥹🙏

Сет доступен по ссылке: https://quizlet.com/958535358/bbc-article-b2-c2-flash-cards/?i=4x9ba1&x=1qqt

Рекомендую скачать приложение. Готовить ещё подобные сеты?

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“How our brains cope with speaking more than one language” — BBC article (I could relate to every single point here and would even add more!)

“Why bilingual development is not easy” — academic research

Поделиться полезными словами и фразами уровня В2+ из первой статьи? Если да — ❤️

#наукаговорит #запискитрилингва

Какие хорошие подкасты на английском?