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English for Engineers and Other Professionals

What English training do Engineers need?

What kind of English do other professionals need, such as doctors, nurses, architects, professors, lawyers, and managers?

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I will teach you to speak English powerfully.

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How to Feel More CONFIDENCE When Speaking English

Two ways to feel more confident every time you speak English: the instant way and the longterm (deep) way.

You need both methods to increase your fluency and communication.

This will help you give great presentations, pass job interviews, and pass English speaking tests.

I will teach you to speak English powerfully.

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YOU Failed The OET? | or TOEFL or IELTS | Nurses Doctors Professionals

Watch this video for the ultimate strategy to pass the OET exam for nurses and doctors.  You can also use this strategy to pass other English language exams such as the TOEFL or IELTS. 

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Why ULTRA FAST LEARNING Is Important | Ultralearning by Scott Young

Ultralearning means SUPER learning.

Why and how can we learn new skills very fast?

Ultralearning gives us the ability to rapidly improve our careers.

The more skills we add, the more unique we become.

And unique people typically get paid more than average.

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YOU Can Speak English Like a Native. 7 Steps to Success

7 milestones (small goals) to lead you to the highest level of English success.

These are the steps I teach my members/students to follow.

It all begins with creating powerful daily habits. Then you work one one real world goal at a time.

Step by step you rise. You can speak English like a native.

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Do These Things Before You Sleep & Set Yourself Up For Success

Let go of negativity and program your mind for success with English and life.

Follow this three step method every night before bed. You will program your unconscious mind for success.

This will create powerful and deep changes over time.

The three steps are:

Relax Your BodyReview Negative Thoughts, Behaviors, and Emotions from the dayChoose Positive Thoughts, Behaviors, and Emotions for tomorrow

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WATCH THIS EVERY DAY To Program Yourself For English FLUENCY & SUCCESS

How do you break the negative patterns that stop your success?

You have that negative self talk.

You have the limiting beliefs. You think:  “I’m busy,… English is too tough…. I”m tired, I’m frustrated”

“I’m nervous when I try to speak

I’m not fluent

I’m bored with English”

How do we break that pattern in a way that works.. that is effective…

… and is easy to do now?

If YOU THINK that your thoughts 

…. and YOU THINK that your feelings

… determine your destiny, your results… your life….

..and if 90% of your daily thoughts

Are the same as the day before…

… and your feelings, your emotions… your emotional habits

… are basically the same every day….

Then your life isn’t going to change much.

Because you are thinking and feeling the same way. 

And those emotions….

Lead to the same thoughts…

Which lead to the same choices… and actions…

Which create the same experiences….. the same results.

And that’s the pattern of your day

And that’s the pattern of your life

And that’s your “PERSONALITY”

If you want to create a new life

You have to change your personality.

And which comes first?

Most people focus first on the RESULTS they want…

… they call these GOALS.

Then they decide on some ACTIONS that will achieve the goals.

And they think that if they change their life….

… and achieve their goals….

… then they will think more happy and positive thoughts…

… and then they will FEEL happier, more excited, more joyful every day.

What if YOU REALIZE this is backwards.

Because you try and try and try to achieve your goals

….. but you don’t.

And you don’t because you feel unmotivated

… you don’t feel confident…

… you get discouraged…

… you get stressed….

… you get frustrated.

Your energy is low… your motivation gets lower…

And then you FEEL even WORSE.

But when YOU REALIZE  it’s backwards….

… your whole life changes IMMEDIATELY.

FIRST, you change your Emotions… your ENERGY… your FEELINGS.

That is the first step, not the last one. 

First you program yourself to feel excited every day…

… to feel happy every day…

… to feel grateful every day…

… to feel love every day…

… to feel enthusiasm every day…

.. to feel super-motivated every day.

You practice it.  You train it.  

You program these emotional habits.  

And what happens when you feel these great feelings every day?

Your thoughts change.

You naturally think more positive thoughts…

… with no effort.

And when your thought habits become positive…

You make better decisions….

You take better actions.

You take action more often…

… and then you get better results

… better experiences.

Your life changes.

My $1 VIP-Career English Fluency in 99 Days Program

……. trains you using the “EPIC System”.

E is the first part of that system….

E = Emotion, Energy.

It’s the first step, the most important step…

… not the last.

 

 

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Intensive English Learning with Focal Skills

Research indicates that students in FOCAL SKILLS programs acquire English language proficiency faster than students in most other types of Intensive English Programs (IEP). A number of studies have found that FOCAL SKILLS students gain about 35% more English ability in a semester than other Intensive English Program students.
We attribute the FOCAL SKILLS advantage to a number of factors, which are discussed below.

Most researchers agree that comprehensible input is necessary (or at least highly desirable) if students are to acquire language proficiency. Following the work of Dr. Stephen Krashen, FOCAL SKILLS regards comprehensible input as essential. Comprehensible input is Job One for every FOCAL SKILLS teacher.

We have developed or adapted a number of key techniques that enable us to provide large amounts of high-quality comprehensible input to ESL students:

The FOCAL SKILLS Movie Technique uses authentic movies to bring an immense variety of meaning into the classroom. By narrating and paraphrasing at the appropriate level of complexity, the teacher can create a rich stream of comprehensible input that is directly related to what the students are seeing and hearing. This input is supported and reinforced by the coherence of the plot, the appeal of the characters, and the affective impact of the scenes. Every few minutes, the teacher stops the movie and paraphrases the action and dialogue, using language appropriate to the students’ level. The teacher then re-plays the scene. Most movies can be covered in this way in about 10 hours of classroom work.

In The Talk Show, two teachers converse and interact with the class while carrying out some project or purposeful activity. This may involve storytelling, how-to classes, cultural lessons, interviews, etc.

Interactive Reading is a group activity in which the class, guided by the teacher, explores an authentic text together. The teacher reads the text out loud first,… students circle words or concepts they don’t understand. The teacher then reviews the text a second time allowing students to ask questions. Finally the text is read again by the teacher. Authentic texts are always used (children’s books, newspapers, etc.).

Personal Reading is an application of Krashen’s “Free Voluntary Reading,” with a teacher serving as resource person. Each student selects a book from the library and reads freely on their own. Comic books, simplified novels, teen romance novels, and the like are all excellent examples for intermediate level students. Students can approach the teacher one at a time to get help or clarification on what they are reading.

In Free Writing, students write individually on topics of interest and importance to them. The teacher consults with the student and responds in the form of a Focused Rewrite, in which selected portions of the student’s work are rewritten in clear, standard English. This technique provides highly focused, personalized comprehensible input, because the rewritten material expresses the student’s own thoughts, while the language elements modeled in this way are likely to contain a hefty sample of the student’s personal language ability.

A Mini-Course is a short “how-to” or academic course on any reasonable topic: with workshops, readings, media materials, discussions, presentations, and other standard activities. This approach is excellent for high-intermediate level students. The focus of these classes is on the topic, rather than on the language.

Since all classes in our intensive ESL environments are conducted in English, the ability to understand spoken English is fundamental for the development of reading, writing, and speaking. Reading ability is essential to the growth of writing ability. Speaking skills are built gradually on the foundation of the other skills, especially listening. All four skills contribute to academic performance.

These considerations lead to the following principles:

Students should have good listening comprehension before working on reading, writing, and academic skills.
Students should have good reading comprehension before working on writing and academic skills.
Students should have good writing ability before working on academic skills.

*Focal Skills copyright Dr. Ashley Hastings

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Your Life Purpose | What is The Mission?

 

What is your life purpose? Do you know?

Why is it important to have a life purpose or a life mission?  Because a lot of people feel lost,  like they’re trying to achieve goals but then they actually don’t feel much happier.  Maybe they’re a little excited for a short time and then that feeling of excitement or happiness goes away.

I’ll give you an example of this for myself.  When I was a runner I did a few marathons.  It was always fun to train for a marathon because, of course ,when I was training for a marathon it was not just the one day of the race.   But actually like six months before the race I had training.  It gave me a lot of motivation. It gave me a clear goal to focus on.  It was very motivating.

But what’s the problem? The problem is that then the race ended.  So I’d run the race and I achieved my goal.  Then what happens is you can lose motivation.  Your goal is finished. You think “well now what do I do?”  So the power of goals is they are very specific. But this is also their weakness.

And this is why you also need a mission or a purpose.  It’s best if you can make one mission or purpose.

What is a purpose or a mission exactly?  Well it it answers the question why.  What we need is a big mission that inspires us.  And that mission must focus on contribution.  In other words, your mission must focus mostly on helping other people.  I think this is a spiritual law, a dharmic law.   Somehow love and serving and contributing and helping others super energizes us far more than trying to just benefit only ourselves.  If you’re a parent you understand this.  You will do things for your child that you won’t do for yourself.  You will suffer for your child in a way you won’t suffer for yourself. You’ll work harder for your child than you will for yourself.  This is a general spiritual idea that serving others, and at the highest level serving God,  is the highest purpose.  It is the most inspiring.

But you need to be a little more specific.   You must answer the question “how” you will help other people.   There are many ways to help people.  The best thing to do is to focus on your strengths and your life experiences.   How can you UNIQUELY help others?   And at the highest level, how can you uniquely serve God?

I’ll give you an example.

This is the Mission of Effortless English (and my own personal mission):

To Explore New Opportunities For Growth

To Bring Confidence, Vitality, and Happiness To People All Over The World

To Boldly Go Where We Have Never Gone Before

 

Anything I do in life I want to focus on growing and learning.  It means always trying to become a better person.  That’s what growth.  So I’m always looking for new chances to grow to become a better person.  And in Effortless English, we (members and fans) are all focused on personal growth, lifelong learning, and becoming better people.

The next sentence is all about contribution.   It’s about what can I do for other people:   bring confidence, vitality, and happiness to people all over the world.   This is my own unique way of contributing to others.  I have always been a high-energy person.  This is a natural strength.  So I focus on using that strength to help other people.   You may have different strengths– and thus you can help people in different ways.  Use what you have.  Your mission should come from your heart and soul.

The final sentence in the Effortless English Mission is about attitude.   It’s about my general life attitude– the mindset I have about my mission.  How will I bring confidence, vitality, and happiness to people all over the world?  How will I explore new opportunities for growth… and learning?   I will be bold.  Not calm.  Not timid.  Not careful.   I will boldly explore.  This part of my mission is about having an adventurous attitude.  You may have a different attitude you wish to focus on.  Perhaps you want to do your mission joyfully?  Or mindfully? The attitude should fit your natural personality.

And that’s my simple formula for creating your mission.

Sentence one is focused on yourself:  Your inner, personal mission.

Sentence two is focused on contribution: how you will help and serve others.

Sentence three is focused on your life attitude:  the emotion or mindset you will have as you do sentence one and two.

Think about these three points.  Brainstorm ideas about each one.

Then write out your own three sentence life mission statement.  It doesn’t need to be perfect.  You can continue to work on it.   You can modify it.  Just get something written.

Final Step To Living Your Life Purpose

The final step is to write your personal mission in big letters.  Post it on your wall.   Tape it to your computer.  Put a small version in your wallet.

Every day, read it and say it out loud.  Memorize it.  Chant it with emotion.

Finally, as you go through your everyday life…  try to connect all of your activities to your mission.   Connect your goals to your mission.   If you go to the gym to exercise… ask yourself how that connects to your mission.  Maybe exercise will make you feel stronger, and you will use that extra strength to accomplish your mission.

This is the key to living a meaningful life.   When you do this, every activity in your life will have a higher purpose.   You will constantly feel inspired.   Your motivation will increase tremendously.   You will become enthusiastic and unstoppable.

Watch all of the video above.  In the video, I give you a lot more examples of how to make a great life mission.

Lots of Love,

AJ

 

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What Is Your Greatest Weakness | Secrets to Answering this Tough English Job Interview Question

What is your greatest weakness? Are you ready to face the toughest job interview questions?

Join me for an exciting and live show where I’ll reveal the secrets to answering one of the most challenging interview questions: “What is your greatest weakness?” In this live event, I’ll help you:

* Understand the real reason employers ask about your weaknesses

* Learn how to stay calm and composed during the interview

* Discover how to give a strong, honest answer that showcases your self-awareness and growth mindset I know that job interviews can be super stressful.

My goal is to help you get the job opportunities you want, using English.

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