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Learn How To Speak English Fearlessly + Effectively Prepare for the CELPIP Exam

An e-mail a week to help you say goodbye to fear and speak English fearlessly. Learn effective and practical tips to help you prepare for and conquer the CELPIP Exam. I also host The Speak English Fearlessly Podcast.

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! A few days ago I listened to a fascinating interview with a polyglot - a person who is able to understand and speak multiple languages. Elisa Polese has studied 25 languages and teaches 13 of them! (Wow! I'm struggling to...

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! One of the most common questions I get from podcast listeners and website visitors is this: how can I improve my speaking skills in English? For the CELPIP, most people who ask me this question, are in the situation of...

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! My Dad recently invited me to go with him and few friends to watch a live community theatre production of Shakespear’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Community theatre is something I’ve never watched before - but it was so much...

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! So let’s get it right out into the open, shall we: failing at something sucks. And when failure or making mistakes seem to stick around like gum on the bottom of your shoe, it can leave you feeling demotivated and maybe...

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! Over reliance on a phrase or word will cause lower CELPIP test results, and I know you don’t want that! Repeating words or phrases multiple times during your CELPIP speaking task answers, might lower your score because...

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CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! Generally, you don’t need to worry too much about using long or flowery introductions for your CELPIP speaking task answers. One of my favourite kinds of stories to read, or movies to watch,- are stories or movies that...

CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! These three points will give you exactly what you need to do to start seeing your English improve! Go where the action is. You know something? You've got an important choice to make today. (Lots of them!) You could decide...

CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! Here are 4 simple steps I want you to take today that will help get unstuck with your CELPIP speaking practice. Ready? 1. Pick one. Just pick one of the eight tasks to practice. For this example, I'll pick task one:...

CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! Brainstorming is one of those commonly experienced problems that CELPIP test takers face. And I frequently get questions like this one, or variations of it, from podcast listeners: "How can I think faster and get my ideas...

CELPIP Success Weekly Tips, Strategies and Stories to help you conquer the CELPIP Exam and Speak English Fearlessly. Well hello there, Reader, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to connect with you today. Do you struggle with brainstorming on the CELPIP? This will help! Have you ever come across websites or youtube videos offering templates to help you pass the CELPIP? I'm sure you have! I did a quick search on google and found over 50,000 results pointing to speaking skill templates for...