- Hi! I'm Christina
from Speak English with Christina
and I'm so excited that you are here
with me today to learn about my new course,
Understand Real American English, Season One.
Before we start, I want to ask you a question.
What do you do to train your ear to understand
native speakers, especially Americans?
Maybe you watch American series with subtitles?
You listen to podcasts in English?
Or maybe you meet with a conversation partner?
And all of these activities are great.
They're things that I like to do as well
when I'm learning a foreign language.
But that's just enjoying English.
They're fun, they're easy
and you enjoy doing it,
you keep contact with the language
but it's not really working on your English.
You know, you probably watch
a lot of TV and movies in English,
but those dialogs are scripted.
And in English class, in the past perhaps,
you probably listened to scripted,
slow, articulate conversations
that are nothing like the conversations
you here in the real world.
And maybe you even live and work
with Americans so you feel like
because you're in this immersion situation
that your listening should become easier
much more quickly but it's not.
And I asked some students, some members
of the Speak English community
to describe the way that Americans speak
in their opinion and this is what they said.
"They speak fast and not correctly.
"There're 'codes' specifically for spoken English,
"like 'I gonna' and these are not natural for me,
"and I don't catch them immediately."
Another student said, "They, Americans, speak
"in a lazy way, so fast I can barely understand.
"I pay so much attention trying to figure out
"what they say, translating in my mind
"and organizing ideas, but the conversation
"continues and I'm lost."
And one more student said that it's
"as if a sentence was not made up
"of a sequence of words but of one continuous sound.
"And if you ask them, Americans, to talk slowly,
"after three seconds they start fast again."
And maybe you feel this way too,
you've had this same experience as these students.
And it's sure that in an ideal world,
we would have subtitles for real life conversations,
a little like comic strips.
You know, when I came to France as a student,
when I started talking to real French people,
having real conversations, I so wished
that there were these little speech bubbles
to have the subtitles so that
it would be easy to understand.
But when I was listening it felt like this.
I could catch some words but understanding
the entire message, it was like,
it was a little, a little fuzzy, a little blurry.
So, what do you need to easily understand
conversations in real English?
It's very simple actually.
You need real unscripted conversations
between Americans, and then someone
to explain the secrets to you, to make it
clear, easy, and to accelerate your improvement.
And also the transcripts of the real conversations,
to identify these 'strange sounds'
and progressively train your ear.
So, let me introduce my new course
Understand Real American English,
which is gonna give you all of that.
Now, what's in the course exactly?
You have 10 videos of real-life
conversations with Americans.
These are not scripted,
they're not classroom conversations.
They're real-life everyday topics
in real spoken English.
And this helps to train your ear
to understand the real, fast discussions
because you also get 10 explanation lessons,
to help you understand the big difference
between what you read and what you hear.
And this helps you also to learn
to instantly recognize these common chunks,
these expressions that we use all the time
and which are really the key
to increasing your listening fluency.
But also you get 20 comprehension activities,
to test your comprehension of course,
but also so that you're active in your learning.
It's not passive like watching television
or listening to podcast.
And this is going to, again, progressively
train your ear to instantly understand
the things that you hear
a little like in your native language.
And it's of course for your level.
If you're pre-intermediate, you're gonna focus
on improving your listening comprehension
of real-life English.
If you're intermediate, you're going
to move closer to understanding
your real-life conversations.
And for advanced levels all of the above,
but also you can start integrating
real-life expressions into your English
and even improve your pronunciation
because there're some activities
on pronunciation too.
Now, the course, the official price is 139 euros,
but we have a very special offer going on
at the moment where it's not 139
but it's only 87 euros.
From March 21st to April 4th,
we are having a special earlybird price,
the 40% discount, so you can get
the entire course for just 87 euros.
And with this you get some extra bonuses, let's say.
You will get early access to the material
as I create it and that means that you get
to participate and help me to create the course
that is going to be perfect for helping you.
It's going to address your real problems
and teach you the things that you need to know.
Hmm, maybe you're asking, "Wait,
"so why are you selling this course
"before it's ready?"
Because the course will be ready in June 2018
but we're opening the registrations now.
And we'll open the course only if we have
a minimum of 100 students who join this week
because I want to be sure that you want this course.
So, we're going to open registrations
at a discounted price and if we get 100 students,
then we'll create the course.
If we don't, then I'll refund your money
the next day and, you know, I'll find out
something that you really want
and then I'll create that.
But this is really the unique opportunity
to work with me to help create
the next Speak English with Christina course.
And, like I said, it's your chance
to influence the content to make sure
that this course is exactly what you need.
Maybe you're asking, "When can I buy the course?"
Like I said, registrations are open
from Wednesday March 21st
to Wednesday April 4th, 2018.
And, like I said, we'll create the course
only if we have a minimum of 100 students
who join over these two weeks.
And, if you register and in the end
we don't get 100 students,
I will refund your money on April 5th.
So the day after registrations close
we count the students on the list
and we decide if you guys wanted this course
or if you were telling me, "No, Christina,
"this is not the course for me."
But so many of you have told me
that listening to real conversations
is a big difficulty for you
and I'm sure that this course
is gonna help you enormously.
And it's really gonna help you to bridge
the gap between, you know, school or audio
that is created for learning English
and real world conversations.
So when will the course be accessible?
It's a good question.
And you'll get to the course
at the end of June 2018.
That's when the course will be
completed and totally ready.
But between now and June, you also have
the opportunity to test the videos
and the exercises, as I create them,
and give me your feedback
if you want to share that with me.
And, if you join now for only 87 euros,
you still get all of the updates
and all of the new content
that I add later for free.
So, if you've wanted to join my courses
in the past but the budget
was a little difficult for you,
this is a great opportunity
to get the course now and then also
enjoy the entire full course
with all of the upgrades for this low price.
So, like I said, earlybird registrations
are March 21st through April 4th
and instead of 139 euros, which is
the official price that we'll be releasing
the course in June, you can get
this very special unique offer for just 87 euros.
So I'm really looking forward to seeing you
in the Understand Real American English course
'cause I'm so excited to be creating this for you.
Alright, I'll see you in the course!