По поводу избавления от привычки переводить я раннее отправляла tips — тыкните выше ❤️

Here's what I can also add, directly related to your learning journey:

💗You see a new word — look up for pictures (Google images) and only then its definition (rather than translation). Read examples for context and use in speech. I recommend using the Cambridge dictionary.

💗А если ищете слово для перевода с русского — попробуйте в поисковике описать слово на английском. Например, пишите "what to call someone who can't be happy for others" вместо "завистливый". Я так недавно искала, как называется "the bar you hang curtains on" 🤭 Попробуйте!

💗Say a word or sentence in English out loud and then immediately picture the word/situation. Например, говорите "I'm flying to Morocco tomorrow" и представляете уже билеты с расписанием и дату, так как это время в будущем используется для точных планов и событий. Помогает создавать связь с грамматическими конструкциями и вокабуляром.

💗Мои ученики подтвердят, что мой мозг не ассоциирует слова на русском со словами на английском. Именно поэтому, когда они нечаянно спрашивают на русском, то с улыбкой наблюдают how I imagine myself in a situation using this word or acting it out to finally say it in English. К чему я? Act words out and play scenarios to help your brain detach from the mother tongue and build a strong connection with your emotions and body language.

Так горжусь, когда вижу, как ученики, записывая слова или спрашивая слово на уроке, объясняют на английском, а не переводят 🥹

Anyway, this tendency to translate is fading over time. It just might take a while, and that's ok ❤️

Let me know if anything is new or works well for you too!

Перевод при изучении языка: yes or no? *🥰***

Very debatable.

Translation is an incredibly impressive skill to me. But I don’t find it to be an effective way of learning a language. In fact, I believe it hinders the student’s path towards fluency… 💔
Я сама почти не практиковала/ую перевод, and that’s why it’s not part of my teaching approach.

Side note: even though it’s almost imperative for an adult brain to translate the target language into mother tongue when we talk about beginner students, more advanced learners might need this done solely to avoid misunderstanding.

My conclusion: the teacher’s job is to help reduce influence from the learner’s first language.
You have to start thinking in English eventually anyway 🥹

Рассказать, как начать не переводить? (для учеников выше В1 более актуально) ❤️

Halloween watch! B2+ 🌟
animation, not for kids

🟣Over the Garden Wall
I discovered this one by word of mouth! A student and then friend of mine asked me whether I'd seen the series. By now, I've only watched a couple of episodes BUT... the way they ridiculously word the dialogues is what keeps me entertained. The storytelling skills of the director are beyond my comprehension!

By the way, here's an article that compares this series to Dante's Divine Comedy (уверена, мои читатели знают о "Божественной Комедии" Данте) 📕

*🟣*Life as a Zucchini
Nothing to do with Halloween itself, but the movie is so cold, empty and... quiet, which evokes quite unsettling emotions and provokes eerie thoughts as you're watching it. As the plot unfolds, you can pinpoint an endless number of social issues and aspects of human development, age-wise. 💔

🟣ParaNormanApparently, I have it on my have-seen list and it says I enjoyed it. Sadly, not a single bit of the movie comes to my mind… 🙂‍↔️ Though according to Google, ParaNorman is a story about a boy from an ill-fated town that’s under a deadly curse. After reading a few quotes from the movie, I crave to rewatch it now:

“There’s nothing wrong with being scared, so long as you don’t let it change who you are”
“You want everyone to hurt just as much as you are”

Месяц on a break *?***
Возвращаюсь with some random insights and thoughts before getting to educational content:

?Я люблю запах книг. And this was the sole reason why I visited this bookstore the other day. Находиться среди книг, зная, что ты многие ещё не прочитал, но чувствовать их запах и присутствие — настоящее благо.

?Another blessing is the ability to take control over your body. To have this power of deciding when and how to breathe in and out, raise your eyebrows with concern, draw a warm smile on your face, produce words of love, listen to and absorb information that nourishes your inquisitive mind... I could go on forever.

?The Reader (2008). Jeanne du Barry (2023). Widow Clicquot (2023). Я не любитель смотреть фильмы, and it's usually hard for me to review them. Но. The earlier mentioned were both devastatingly beautiful and disgustingly heartbreaking. Recommended.

?Health > everything else. Потому что без health не бывает everything else. I've always struggled to accept that and turned a blind eye to my health issues.

?Если я должна, то должна из любви, а не из морали. I've come across a similar thought on the web, и мне так понравилось. Часто слышу, что "мы ничего никому не должны" — очень даже должны, though it really depends on how you perceive this responsibility. И в этом понимании лежит разница между взрослостью (is this a word?) и зрелостью.

?Я всё ещё боюсь of time passing. I do my best to enjoy the present and seize all the incredible opportunities life brings to me as well as create them on my own. Yet, my body shivers as I think of how I may not (and, realistically, will not) learn enough from books, meet every wonderful human being, or discover all the magical places on Earth.

?Я горжусь собой. And I hope you don't forget to be proud of yourself either.

Спасибо❤️

#этоя

People, in case I’m not replying on telegram, please leave your requests here ❤️

Там точно никого не потеряю!
А у меня тем временем даже на 4 месяца вперёд забронировали себе место… Ваше доверие — моё всё.

Моя Маша got her results!…
и мы снова в шоке ?

Запрос был на 5.5-6.0
А мы сделали общий 7.0 с такими результатами по sections:
Listening 8.0
Reading 6.5
Writing 6.0
Speaking 7.0

This is insane considering 5 weeks of preparation only. Представляете? Какие же все у меня умницы! Горжусь immensely ?**

#моиученики #ielts

Ok, I can never not plan my to-do list ?
I schedule every minute of my day, really

Might sound like some sort of obsession, right? Um, this truly helps me stay sane and calm, maintain this sense of liberty and control over my life, and simply learn to focus on my goals. I keep track of what I need to do in my Notes app & Google Calendar ✏️

This is just a part of what I had for today:
?morning routine 7-7.30am
?morning walk & breakfast
?lesson preparations 8.30-9.30am
?offline lesson 10am
?lessons 12-4pm
?homework feedbacks & lesson reports
?pronunciation video lesson editing
?lesson 6pm
?evening walk / family call

Can anyone relate? ?****

Probably, the most random message you’d receive today ❤️