Weekly emails 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 CELPIP Success Podcast.
True or false: living in Canada 10 years = acing the CELPIP
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Hello Reader, The quick answer: a big fat FALSE. Living in Canada for 10 years DOES NOT = acing the CELPIP. In fact, it can = being stuck at the same English level as when you first started! In this week's podcast, you'll hear about a person who has been in Canada 10+ years but they are still stuck at an intermediate/upper intermediate level of English. The problem: they desperately need a 10 on the CELPIP for their PR. But you know what? Their real problem isn't being stuck at an 8. The real problem is that they're likely trapped inside a first language bubble that's holding all their progress back. First language bubble? If you've never heard me talk about it before, here's what you need to know:
Listen to this week's podcast to find out more, and more importantly, listen to find out what to do if you are stuck in a 1st language bubble yourself. **** Update: Get some free help with CELPIP Speaking Task 3. On Thursday, October 8 at 5pm pst, You are invited to join me for a free workshop and a 3 day pop-up chat group to help you master this challenging speaking task! Did you know that speaking task 3 is often cited as one of the most difficult CELPIP speaking tasks? The images you often need to describe come packed with lots of things going on at once. Test takers often report freezing on this section: where do I start? What do I say? Others report feeling like they ramble aimlessly through the picture. The result? A lower score. Join me for this free workshop and learn practical strategies with practice to help you ace this section of the exam. Sign up here. It's free. Only 17 seats remaining. Will you grab one of them? Thanks for reading, have a great week! Aaron Ps. Need help with your CELPIP speaking skills? In just 30 days I can help you practice every single CELPIP speaking task. Pss. Is writing your problem? I've got. you covered. 4 weeks of focused practice on both CELPIP writing tasks + one-on-one feedback on your writing. |
Learn How To Speak English Fearlessly + Effectively Prepare for the CELPIP Exam
Weekly emails 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 CELPIP Success Podcast.
CELPIP Success: The newsletter Hey Reader, I've been thinking a lot about something that I'm not particularly good at: saying what I really think - my opinion about real world issues. Not all the time, of course. But more often than I care to admit, I find that I'm thinking something about a news story, for example, but I don't express it. Happen to you? Here's what I mean: I listened to several podcast episodes this week on CBC's Frontburner (a personal favourite podcast of mine) that left...
Hello Reader, I think the typical way we are taught and try to learn grammar SUCKS. It's incredibly boring. It's usually 100% about memorizing lists of rules and verbs. And worse: this approach rarely works. It doesn't stick! Do you agree? There's a better way to learn grammar, and you don't need to waste hours and hours trying to memorize stuff you'll only forget when you need it most, like on the CELPIP exam or in the middle of a conversation, and this week's podcast will tell you all about...
Hello Reader, Happy Saturday to you. How did your week go? Mine felt busy. More busy than I like it to be, and the crazy part: I made it that way. I created the busy but adding things to what I'm already doing, thinking that they were important to do. Like what, you may ask? The daily YouTube posting challenge I thought I'd try. I made it through a week of creating and posting shorts, and have figured out that I don't want to continue with that rhythm. Even weirder? It was a mental topic of...