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.
Two helpful questions for you today
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Hi Reader, It's the weekend and boy am I glad! It's been a busy week, hasn't it? I think these two questions will help you with your English practice: ***The two best questions I've read all week! James Clear's email newsletter is great for reading practice. It's usually short but filled with great ideas to read and think about. If you scroll to the bottom of this post you'll see a great question to think about! It's easy to focus on the bad things that happened to you this week with your English skills. But what went well as you prepared for the CELPIP or worked on your English? Remember: Like James Clear points out, small wins stack up! This is true with your English skills too! 2. Are you spending enough time outside of your comfort zone? This great question is also at the bottom of the post I'm linking to from James Clear's newsletter. (I know...I like sharing and talking about Clear's work.) But he has great ideas that I think will help you as you work on your English skills. In this post he makes a great observation about what you can do to learn faster - and it totally applies to building your English and CELPIP skills! Check it out. Upcoming Class: See you next Wednesday, February 12 at 6pm PST for our next class. Thanks for reading! Have a great weekend. Aaron |
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 Hello Reader, I came across a post on Reddit - someone stuck at 9 in listening and writing, but they need a 10. This will be their 6th attempt. So how do you break out of that 9? Check your level. If you're 100% sure you're current level of English is at a C1 or advanced, then aiming for a 10 is not an unrealistic score to aim for. Remember: the CELPIP measures your current level of English. That means studying harder for the CELPIP won't bump your score up....
CELPIP Success: The newsletter Hello Reader, I've mentioned this before, and I'll do it again and again simply because I think we frequently get it wrong: Mistakes with your English = progress markers. Zero mistakes almost always = not enough risk taking. To make progress with your English and your CELPIP scores, you REALLY need to use your English more often than you are, and in ways you haven't gotten used to yet. Risks. Take more of them with your English skills to see them grow. (And your...
CELPIP Success: The newsletter Hello Reader, This week I was away for work, and needed to record the podcast episode using what I had on hand: my cellphone. (It was also a video for my YouTube channel.) I didn't have a stand with me to hold my phone, so instead I tried to balance it on the box of a board game I had with me. In case you were wondering, balancing your phone on a box doesn't work very well. My phone fell multiple times during my recording. Video went suddenly black. Loud...