English Confidence: Recent Episodes
Becks Brown
English Confidence is an submersion into the language and conventions of the business world. The podcast covers the essential Business English for every situation . The podcast will follow a simple structure with the host speaking for a couple minutes about various hot topics. There are Vocabulary, Grammar guidance, transcripts each podcast. The host assumes the listener already has reasonable knowledge of English, but it doesn't assume too much. The English spoken is slowed down so it is easy to follow. In addition, the lessons offer valuable listening and comprehension practice.
Resilience is about how you recover or bounce back from seemingly impossible setbacks. It doesn’t resonate with scaredy-cats as it challenges you to form and maintain elasticity when facing setbacks and when you fall behind with your study or a project at work or when things go wrong in your life. You have the capacity to respond and tackle the stimuli and remain on the success path and make progress.
Many students make a list of their goals without considering what it will actually take for then to achieve these goals. Success isn’t spontaneous nor does it happen over night. It takes time. So we ought to learn how to discipline ourselves. All of us want to reach some level of success in our lives and with our studies, however, we cannot do this without being 100% self-disciplined.
By copying the English sounds you hear will help you lose the remnants of your native accent when you speak English. Try watching British TV or find and copy the speech patterns of a role model, newsreader or film star you’ll immediately start to improve your own English pronunciation fast.
Most successful individuals are long term thinkers. Here is a tip to help you look into the future as far as you can and set goals which you would like to achieve. Then sit down and make a plan to determine what you should do in order to reach those goals.
Self-Discipline can be developed or strengthened at any given time if you really put your mind to it. Make the genuine effort to align your actions and behaviour with your thoughts. Exercise; get your mind and body into shape. Resist the urge to give into negative behaviour, or habits, instead focus on all of the positive attributes. What lies in your power to do, lies in your power not to do.
Learning a new language can be a challenging task. But if you use this simple memory exercises/technique you could start learning up to 150-200 new vocabulary in a day.
Many people become stagnated or buried under past limitations or past opinions, failures and dissappointments. Break free today and re-activate, re-stimulate and release the massive wealth of potential that is still inside of you.
Successful leadership involves continuous personal change. This is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment. Change is not always easy. Why? Because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain when they give somethings up.
Here are some helpful ways you could improve your English skills, in terms of pronunciation, rhythm and intonation. From dictation to reading along with a story and recording yourself talking then listening to your own voice.
Support for students who want to improve their all round skills in English; listening, speaking, writing and reading. Weekly podcast.