you follow the system, you will certainly succeed!
Remember: listening is the key to speaking.
I wish you good luck and every success!
With love and respect,
Your English teacher,
Alex.
HOW I WRITE MY BOOKS
I’ve got stuff to do. I’ve got books to write. I’ve got journeys to take. Of course, to do all this, you have to be driven, committed to do this kind of research and make good, big books, like the course you are about to start. That is all well, but it also takes a price from the body.
When I go in and after I have done all my preparation and research and then I go to write. Certainly, preparation takes time. Preparation takes a lot of time. Frankly speaking, 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for 6 months or as long as the book takes. It is always new. It is always fresh. And you never know how long it is going to take you to do it.
Than I sit down and then I do nothing else but write. I like to keep it tight. I like to live with the book, with the course. I like to be deeply immersed, deeply involved in the stories, not to be distracted from them any ways. I just drop emails. I don’t take telephone calls. I don’t correspond with people. I totally there serving the book and living the stories. And that works best for me. And I think it works best for the stories and for the course.
And of course, in order to write better I learned from the best. Famous writers helped me enormously. Roselyn Brown, for example, once said, “Writing is a job. It is not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule you time and stick to it”. Walker Perry said, “You’ve got to sit down and follow the schedule. Unless you do that, you won’t ever do anything” Earnest Hemingway said, “I rise at first light and I start by rereading everything I’ve written to the point I felt off”. And of course, Steven King says, “Don’t wait for the Muse. Don’t wait for inspiration. Your job is to make sure that the Muse knows where you are doing to be every day from 9 till 11”. This helped me to grow as a writer. I never wait for inspiration to come. I don’t wait for the Muse. I made it a rule, and now my job is to make sure that the Muse knows when I am going to be busy every day, for example, from 9 till noon or from 6 till 11. I sit down and begin to write even if I have no ideas what to write about. I make characters. I give them what they need and why they need it. I look behind my characters. I breathe lives into them and walk them through difficulties and guide them when it is necessary. And then inspiration comes. It always comes during work rather than before it.
Than starts revision. I revise it. I call my friend who is a fantastic English speaker, a native speaker, a teacher in University of Chicago. We go though the whole thing and we change it. It takes a lot of time. I read it aloud and he listens to me. He likes to say, “Say it again. I have to hear the melody of the sentences.” And if we like the way it sounds, we don’t correct it, but if we don’t we make changes. It changes things. ““I need to hear the music of the language. I need to hear the intonation” he likes to say. He makes great improvements. It’s always better. Then in the studio I make some changes as well. And then in teaching the students change, they change it because they live through the characters when they learn the stories. I get credits for all the improvements because I am the writer. Isn’t that nice?
When I finish the book I go and celebrate it. I think it is very important to celebrate your achievement: to give a party, to treat yourself with something nice, good and beautiful. I enjoy my success. It is a sign of maturity, I think.
And I want to you to know that I am grateful to everyone who helps me and ever helped me before. It’s my family, my mom, my friends and Jesus. I mean Jesus Christ. I love to say, “I love Jesus and Jesus loves me”. I am a strong believer that no one can do anything good without other people and without something that is bigger than you.
That’s it for now. See you next time!
WHY ARE MINI-STORIES SO POWERFUL?
Why are mini-stories that powerful?
Mini-stories are powerful because I deliberately use the most common verbs like: go, come, take, give, wish, run and there is so much repetition in these stories. And the questions come and again they should be very, very easy and very much comprehensible. So you answer the questions without thinking.
And you no longer deal with the story; you focus on the most common verbs we use in daily conversations.
What do you get from this? The same words, the same questions and you get the basic structures of the sentences with so much repetition.
Even if you start as a beginner it is first noisy and then with time it gets clearer and clearer to you and you feel more and more confident in what you are learning.
Some of the stories are easy, some of them are difficult. Why? It is because of our brain again.
The brain requires two things: repetition and novelty. Novelty it is not necessarily to be something new. It means when you learn something using a lot of repletion, you eventually get tired and bored and you need to give your brain a kind of break. It can help you develop the flexibility of brain.
If you stay with simple stories and never push yourself to harder stories, it is easier for you to get that boredom. But if you push yourself and make yourself learn something a little bit more difficult than you did before, your brain becomes more alert and more alive and you remember much better and faster so you learn better and speak better. That’s why mini-stories are so powerful.
WHY DO MY COURSES?
Why do my courses?
To know the answer ask yourself these questions:
– Do you get nervous when you need to speak English?
– Are you afraid of making mistakes every time when you need to speak English?
– Do you want to understand and to be understood when you speak English?
– Do you want to get automatic respect from people when you speak English?
If you answer «yes» to any of these questions, I go, "Boost up your English" is what you need!»
If you want to speak true, real and excellent English.
If you want to think in English, do my English course, which is called «Boost up your English» and I promise you will boost up your English. You will improve your English. You will elevate your English. You will start speaking English the way you never did before.
Now let me tell you what you learn in «Boost up your English» English Course.
There are 7 units and 3 months of audio lessons.
Each Unit, each story includes:
First: a crazy, funny, and stupid story.
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