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Month 1: 1 60 min Group Zoom session per week for 3 weeks
Week 1 Session 1. Confidence and clarity for Turkish speakers - how to sound instantly clearer and confident in English. Q&A 

Week 2 Session 2. It Ain't What You Say, It's The Way That You Say It - accent softening, pronunciation, intonation, inflection and so much more. Q&A 

Week 3 Session 3. Idioms for instant rapport and boosting English conversations success. Q&A 

Month 2: 1 60 min Group Zoom session per week for 3 weeks

Week 1 Session 4. Advanced business English sentence structures - incl linking, bridging, collocations, frequency of time to expand your fluency and transform speaking in short sentences to longer ones. Q&A 

Week 2 Session 5. CV / Resume Review - what makes a good / bad CV / Resume, re-design your CV / Resume for the European / Western market and how to write a stunning cover letter to get to interview stage. Q&A 

Week 3 Session 6. Strategic job search tactics - which is best; speculative approaches Vs applying to advertisements. Strategies to find your best possible job offer. Q&A 
Month 3: 1 60 min Group Zoom session per week for 3 weeks

Week 1 Session 7. Acing your interview - experience based Vs behavioral based interviews and how to handle them, using STAR technique to impress the interview, how to handle challenging questions, what NOT to say, body language and intonation to create instant rapport and interview success. Q&A 

Week 2 Session 8. CV / Resume Review - what makes a good / bad CV / Resume, re-design your CV / Resume for the European / Western market and how to write a stunning cover letter to get to interview stage. Q&A 

Week 3 Session 9. Putting it all together - recap and review. A full session combining key elements of all of the 8 sessions and Q&A.
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Ecce textus pulcherrimae nugae Catulli:

Quaērīs, quōt mĭhĭ bāsĭātĭōnēs

tūaē, Lēsbĭă, sīnt sătīs sŭpērquĕ.

Quām māgnūs nŭmĕrūs Lĭbŷssae hărēnaē

lāsārpīcĭfĕrīs iăcēt Cўrēnīs

ōrāclūm Iŏvĭs īntĕr aēstŭōsī

ēt Bāttī vĕtĕrīs săcrūm sĕpūlcrūm;

aūt quām sīdĕră mūltă, cūm tăcēt nōx,

fūrtīvōs hŏmĭnūm vĭdēnt ămōrēs:

tām tē bāsĭă mūltă bāsĭārĕ

vēsānō sătĭs ēt sŭpēr Cătūllo ēst,

quaē nēc pērnŭmĕrārĕ cūrĭōsī

pōssīnt nēc mălă fāscĭnārĕ līnguā.

Prosodia carminum poetarum latinorum

Nuga VII Catulli: "Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes"

Class 186 — the full pronunciation clinic for native English speakers, and the honest assessment nobody gives you.

If English is your first language you have the weakest starting position of any learner in this course. Word order: unfamiliar — English is subject-verb-object, Malayalam is verb-final. Postpositions, agglutination, a case system, retroflex consonants, contrastive aspiration, meaningful vowel length, gemination, relative participles, the dative-experiencer, inclusive and exclusive we, a negative verb — all absent from English. That is why the US Foreign Service Institute puts Malayalam in its hardest category, alongside Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean: roughly four times the study hours of French or Spanish. When you find this hard, you are not failing. You are doing a category-four language.

The compensating fact is large: you already speak the language Kerala's educated population speaks. You will never be stranded — the cost is that you must force yourself off that safety net.

Then the clinic — six sound problems, ranked by how much damage they do to comprehension, each with a physical fix you can practise today:

1. The retroflex series. Dental ത ദ ന against the teeth; retroflex ട ഡ ണ with the tongue curled back. English t and d sit between the two, so Malayalis hear you as wrong in both directions. പട്ടി (patti) is a dog; പത്തി (patthi) is a snake's hood.
2. Aspiration. English aspirates automatically — pin vs spin — and you cannot hear it because it never changes meaning. In Malayalam ക/ഖ, ഗ/ഘ, ത/ഥ, പ/ഫ do. Fix: a strip of paper in front of your mouth.
3. Vowel length. അ vs ആ, ഇ vs ഈ, ഉ vs ഊ — duration, not quality. കല (kala) art vs കാല (kaala) of time; മല (mala) mountain vs മാല (maala) garland.
4. Gemination — കല്ല് (kallu) stone vs കല് (kal).
5. ഴ, the retroflex approximant in മഴ (mazha) rain and in Kozhikode — a sound found in Malayalam and Tamil and almost nowhere else on earth.

Quizzes below. Dr. Reshmi R Nair — SpeakMalayalam.

Malayalam Sound Lab | Pronunciation, Script and Accent

Pronunciation Clinic for English Speakers — The Six Sounds That Give You Away in Malayalam

Stop using difficult, technical words that confuse your clients. In global business, your English needs to focus on results, not just features. Learn how to change complex explanations into short, high-impact sentences that close deals. 

Real English Skills

Is This English Mistake Holding Your Business Back?

"Welcome to Fluent Talk,the podcast dedicated to helping language learner providing engaging conversations.Join us.
                                                          CREOLE AND ENGLISH 

Bonjou/Bonswa tout moun, non pa m se Andy, Mwen se pwofèse kreyòl Ayisyen sou italki depi 2 zan ,Se yon reyèl plezi pou mwen prezan te w podcast kreyòl Ayisyen m .
Objektif podkas sa a : se ede w ogmante vokabile w e amelyore kreyòl ou,menm si ou se yon debitan , entèmedyè oubyen  Avanse.

4) pwen enpòtan ke nou pral jwenn nan podcast sa a se.
1- Konvèzasyon
2- Eksplikasyon 
4- Pwononsiyasyon
5- Epi gramè

Nan Chak episòd n ap gen yon  sijè diferan ke mwen pral diskite sou li, pa ekzanp, li  kapab sou kilti ,sou fanmi ,yon istwa oubyen bagay k ap pase nan vi a chak jou. N ap gen chans pou n aprann anpil mo vokabilè ak ekspresyon atravè divès sijè.
 W ap jwenn tradiksyon chak podcast an anglè anba paj la. M ap tann nou tout sou cahnèl sa ak yon gran plezi e deja mwen di nou byenvini.
M ap mande w silvouplè abòne , pataje l e renmen l. 
Mèsi, babay!


Translation 

Hello everyone, my name is Andy, I've been teaching Haitian Creole on Italki  for 2 years, it's a real pleasure for me to be present on My Haitian Creole podcast.
 The purpose of this podcast is to help you increase your vocabulary and improve your Creole, even if you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced.

4) Important points that we will find in this podcast are.
1- Conversation
2- Explanation
4- Pronunciation
5- And grammar

 In each episode we will have a different topic that I will discuss, for example, it can be about culture, about family, a story or things that happen in everyday life.  We will have the chance to learn a lot of vocabulary words and expressions through various topics.
 You will find the English translation of each podcast at the bottom of the page.  I am waiting for you all on this channel with great pleasure and I already say welcome.

 Please subscribe, share and like.
 Thanks, bye!


Fluent talk


 Congiunzioni conclusive: 

quindi, perciò, inoltre, insomma, dunque

Servono per giungere alla conclusione in un ragionamento dentro una frase. 
Esempio: 

Oggi fa molto freddo, quindi indosso un maglione pesante.

Come vedi oggi non ha piovuto, dunque  avevo ragione io.











Congiunzioni dichiarative/esplicative

Infatti, difatti, in effetti, ossia, ovvero, vale a dire

Servono a introdurre introdurre una frase che spiega, illustra, chiarisce quello che è stato detto.
Esempi:

In Spagna si vive molto bene, infatti  Valencia è stata eletta a città più vivibile del mondo. 
 Secondo me in Italia non ci sono buone condizioni di lavoro, difatti molti giovani laureati oggi emigrano in altri Paesi. 




Congiunzioni causali
Poiché, perché, siccome, giacché, in quanto che, dato che

Servono a introdurre la causa o il motivo espresso nella frase principale

Poiché ieri non stavo bene, sono rimasto a casa.
Ho comprato una sedia nuova perché l’altra era troppo scomoda. 
In quanto che il tempo è prezioso, sarà bene utilizzarlo nel migliore dei modi. 






Congiunzioni concessive
nonostante, benché , sebbene, qualora

Esempi: 

Nonostante Noam Chomsky abbia 94 anni, è un uomo ancora molto preparato e con un senso critico della realtà. 
Qualora tu fossi interessata, ci sarebbe ancora un posto per il workshop di scrittura creativa. 



Altre congiunzioni varie con esempi: 

purché
  Esempio: Farò di tutto per aiutarti, purché tu riesca a raggiungere i tuoi obiettivi

finché
Esempio: finché continuerai a perdere tempo in aperitivi con gli amici, non riuscirai mai a raggiungere buoni risultati nello sport. 
affinché
Esempio: Affinché potesse studiare meglio il jazz, Mario decise di trasferirsi a New York. 

bensì
esempio: Non voglio un piatto con caviale e aragosta, bensì una semplice focaccia con le olive. 

cosicché
Esempio: Igor ha deciso di trasferirsi in Germania, cosicché avrà maggiori possibilità lavorative



Italiano espresso

33 congiunzioni da sapere in italiano

This English learning episode is about one of the most famous Mexican artists to ever live, Frida Kahlo. Book a conversation class with me  https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1947582 
Thanks for listening!  Who is your favorite artist?

Streetwise English

SWE21 The Most Famous Female Mexican Artist (American English Podcast)

No hay duda en que la cocina latinoamericana es un cúmulo de diversas influencias culturales a lo largo de mucho tiempo que le dan la riqueza y el gran sabor a los platos que nos representan. Sin embargo, muchos de las especias en América Latina, que se usan en nuestra gastronomía, constituyen la diferencia en relación con otras latitudes a nivel de cocina, y así como por ejemplo, la canela llegó al continente para transformar el sabor de nuestros postres, la vainilla constituyó el cambio radical en los platos dulces del viejo continente cuando partió de aquí. 
Hoy conoceremos especias y condimentos originarios, así como algunos de los más usados en Latinoamérica.