You practice English by yourself. Everything sounds pretty good! Siri understands you. Your AI understands you. You feel GOOD!! But then... Then you finally talk to someone: You: “________________.” Them: “Sorry?” You say it again. Them: “Sorry…what?” 😩 Frustrating? YES. But I want you to think about that moment differently. That's valuable information. You just discovered a pronunciation problem that you might NEVER have discovered while practicing alone. And here's something important: You do NOT need perfect pronunciation. You do NOT need to sound exactly like me. You need pronunciation that allows you to communicate clearly. That's why real conversation is so important. When you actually speak with other people, we start discovering: Which sounds are causing trouble? Which words aren't clear? Is your rhythm making you difficult to understand? Are you pronouncing something differently from the way you hear it? These problems can hide when you're studying alone. Conversation exposes them. And once we can SEE the problem… we can work on it. That's another important part of ABC. 🔥 The next ABC starts Saturday, October 3. I’ll personally be there LIVE to get you started. Regular price: $200 Current price: $150 Go HERE to sign up (look at the picture below). With ALIPAY, use this link HERE! In Russia, please contact Coach @Gulya Karimova Don't be embarrassed when somebody doesn't understand you. Get curious. WHY didn't they understand me? That's where improvement begins. Coach Shane

Quick question. How many years have you studied grammar? Probably YEARS. Most of you--3 years in middle AND/OR high school. You studied ALL the grammar. BUT So many times, when somebody asks you a question and you need to use PAST TENSE...what happens?! So somebody asks: “What did you do yesterday?” Easy question, right? But suddenly: “Yesterday…I…uhhh…I go…went…I was…” 😬 What happened?! You KNOW the grammar. But knowing a grammar rule and using it automatically in conversation are two very different things. This is something many English learners misunderstand. They think: “My grammar isn't good enough. I need to study more grammar.” Sometimes, yes. Almost always, no. You already KNOW enough grammar. You haven't USED it enough. Conversation puts grammar under pressure. You don't have 30 seconds to analyze the sentence. Subject… verb… tense… article… preposition… GO! You need to communicate. Every time you actually USE English in proper sentences, grammar becomes easier to access. That's one of the six things we work on in ABC. We don't want grammar that only works on a test. We want grammar that comes out of your mouth. 🔥 ABC—Adult Basic Conversation—starts Saturday, October 3. I’ll personally be there LIVE to get you started. Regular price: $200 Current price: $150 Go HERE to sign up (look at the picture below). With ALIPAY, use this link HERE! In Russia, please contact Coach @Gulya Karimova You've studied the grammar rules. Now let's USE them. Coach Shane

Someone asks you a simple question: “What did you do this weekend?” And your brain does this: Your language → create the answer → translate it → check the grammar → check the vocabulary → English 😵‍💫 Meanwhile… the other person is waiting. THIS is one reason your English feels slow. You’re trying to run English through another language first. One of my ABC students described something really interesting after taking the course. In his previous English classes, the other students spoke his native language. So if his English didn’t work? No problem! He could switch back to his language, explain himself, and everybody understood. But in ABC, we deliberately try to put people who speak different native languages together. Suddenly… his native language couldn't save him! If the other person didn’t understand, he had to try again. In ENGLISH. Maybe simpler English. Maybe different words. Maybe an example. Maybe a gesture. But he had to COMMUNICATE. He told me that this genuinely changed the way he thought about speaking English. And THAT is exactly what I want. ABC isn't about creating perfect English sentences in your head. It's about making English WORK. 🔥 The next ABC starts Saturday, October 3. I’ll personally be there LIVE to get you started. Regular price: $200 Current price: $150 Go HERE to sign up (look at the picture below). With ALIPAY, use this link HERE! In Russia, please contact Coach @Gulya Karimova Stop translating. Stop waiting for the perfect sentence. Use the English you already have. Coach Shane

Someone asks you a question in English. You understand them. You KNOW the vocabulary. You KNOW the grammar. And then… 😳 Nothing. Your brain starts screaming: “What if my grammar is wrong?” “What if my pronunciation sounds terrible?” “What if they don’t understand me?” “What if I embarrass myself?” So you give a tiny answer. Or you say nothing. And later you think: “WHY DIDN’T I JUST SAY IT?!” Sound familiar? Then you might not have an English knowledge problem. You might have a fear-of-speaking problem. And unfortunately, you cannot study that fear away. You have to speak it away. That’s one of the biggest reasons I created ABC—Adult Basic Conversation. We give you opportunities to SPEAK. Not perform. Not give a perfect speech. Communicate. You’ll make mistakes. GOOD! You’ll sometimes forget a word. GOOD! Someone might not understand you the first time. GOOD! Now find another way to say it. THAT is conversation. And every time you survive one of those moments, your brain learns something important: “Hey…I CAN do this.” And the fear gets a little smaller. Then you do it again. 🔥 ABC starts Saturday, October 3. I’ll personally be there LIVE to get you started. Regular price: $200 Current price: $150 Go HERE to sign up (look at the picture below). With ALIPAY, use this link HERE! In Russia, please contact Coach @Gulya Karimova If fear has been keeping you quiet, come join us. You don’t defeat the fear and THEN speak. You speak—and THAT defeats the fear. Coach Shane

“I’ll speak more when I feel confident.” I hear this ALL the time. But there’s a problem. Confidence doesn’t come BEFORE speaking. It comes AFTER speaking. Think about anything you’ve learned to do well. Driving. Swimming. Cooking. Playing an instrument. Did you wait until you felt confident before you started? Of course not! At first, you were probably nervous. You made mistakes. You had to think about everything. Then you did it again. And again. And again. Eventually, something changed. You became confident. English works the same way. You can study vocabulary for another year. You can study grammar for another year. You can watch another 500 English videos. But if you avoid speaking because you’re waiting to feel confident… you’re training yourself to avoid speaking. In ABC—Adult Basic Conversation—we do the opposite. You speak. We put you into small Zoom groups and give you real situations to talk about. Introductions. Small talk. Shopping. Restaurants. Work. Travel. Meetings. You don’t have to be perfect. You have to participate. One student from our previous ABC told me that his first class was difficult because he was shy and didn’t want to speak. So I created the smaller groups. He started talking. One or two words. Then he talked again. A short sentence. And again. Longer sentences! His shyness DISAPPEARED! That’s how confidence is built. Not by waiting. By doing. 🔥 The new ABC starts Saturday, October 3. I’ll personally be there LIVE to get you started. Regular price: $200 Current price: $150 Go HERE to sign up (look at the picture below). With ALIPAY, use this link HERE! In Russia, please contact Coach @Gulya Karimova