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“The Curator” is one of five personal language learning styles. Why should you find out yours? If you want to improve your English, grow your vocabulary, and break through to feeling like you can express yourself freely and beautifully, you need to learn in a way that keeps you happy, motivated and on track. This only works if the methods you choose are a good fit for your personality! When you take the quiz on my website, you get your own personal language study guide with information and tips for each individual learning style. So don’t wait — take the quiz now and give your language learning a new edge! Go to the link in my bio or go to www.edgycoaching.de/quiz 🖤 I love to see your results so take a screenshot and share your result in a story! :) #englishcoaching #englishcoach #confidencecoaching #learningenglish #englishidioms #englishlessons #unlockyourpotential #englishcourses #englishfluency #learningstyles

“The Intellectual” is one of five personal language learning styles. Why should you find out yours? If you want to improve your English, grow your vocabulary, and break through to feeling like you can express yourself freely and beautifully, you need to learn in a way that keeps you happy, motivated and on track. This only works if the methods you choose are a good fit for your personality! When you take the quiz on my website, you get your own personal language study guide with information and tips for each individual learning style. So don’t wait — take the quiz now and give your language learning a new edge! Go to the link in my bio or go to www.edgycoaching.de/quiz 🖤 I love to see your results so take a screenshot and share your result in a story! :) #englishcoaching #englishcoach #confidencecoaching #learningenglish #englishidioms #englishlessons #unlockyourpotential #englishcourses #englishfluency #learningstyles

An essential lesson for your mindset growth. Perfection isn't the goal; progress is. Embrace your journey and speak with confidence, even if it's not perfect. Your voice matters now. Let’s conquer your fears together and celebrate every step forward. #growthmindset #perfectionism #languagelearning #learningenglish #businessenglish #advancedenglish #languagecoaching #englishcoach

“The Traveller” is one of five personal language learning styles. Why should you find out yours? If you want to improve your English, grow your vocabulary, and break through to feeling like you can express yourself freely and beautifully, you need to learn in a way that keeps you happy, motivated and on track. This only works if the methods you choose are a good fit for your personality! When you take the quiz on my website, you get your own personal language study guide with information and tips for each individual learning style. So don’t wait — take the quiz now and give your language learning some wind beneath your wings! Go to the link in my bio or go to www.edgycoaching.de/quiz 🖤 I love to see your results so take a screenshot and share your result in a story! :) #englishcoaching #englishcoach #confidencecoaching #learningenglish #englishidioms #englishlessons #unlockyourpotential #englishcourses #englishfluency #learningstyles

“The Poet” is one of five personal language learning styles. Why should you find out yours? If you want to improve your English, grow your vocabulary, and break through to feeling like you can express yourself freely and beautifully, you need to learn in a way that keeps you happy, motivated and on track. This only works if the methods you choose are a good fit for your personality! When you take the quiz on my website, you get your own personal language study guide with information and tips for each individual learning style. So don’t wait — take the quiz now and give your language learning a Renaissance! Go to the link in my bio or go to www.edgycoaching.de/quiz 🖤 I love to see your results so take a screenshot and share your result in a story! :) #learnenglish #businessenglish #englishcoach #learningstyles

Who says you can't improve your English while enjoying a relaxing vacation? Whether you're lounging by the beach or exploring a new city, there are plenty of stress-free ways to enhance your language skills. Check out these tips for relaxed English learning on holiday, and make the most of your leisure time without any pressure. Enjoy your travels and happy learning! Share in the comments: do you have tips for using English on vacation? #englishvocabulary #learningenglish #polyglot #vocabularytips

EDGY Expert Advice Series #7: Hugh Dellar Such a fun interview with my friend Hugh from @lexical_lab today! Hugh and I talked about: - The problems of grammar-focused language teaching - Tips for improving your active vocabulary for the situations you care about - Whether accent is important 🤷🏼 Thank you so much for being my guest, Hugh! If you found our conversation helpful, please drop your favourite tip or insight into the chat. And check out the great English and teacher training courses at @lexical_lab , both online and in North London. This was my last expert interview before the summer break. Do you have any ideas for who I should invite to come talk to me after the summer? Drop me a line! #learningenglish #englishtips #englishcoaching #languagecoach #englishcoach #languagelover

This is a simple but very powerful tip for how to ✨actually learn vocabulary from reading books✨. So many of my clients complain that they already read books and watch all of their series in English, but that they don’t feel that their English is improving at all. That’s because reading alone will not improve your active skills, just like you don’t become a great dancer by watching other people dance! In order to grow your active vocabulary level, you need to pair your reading with small, active practice actions like the one I share in this reel. By adding tiny habits like this into your everyday routines, you can actively increase your language skills with relatively little effort and will quickly see results! Found this tip helpful? Then do one of the following: ✨send it to a friend who loves reading ✨leave a comment ✨add me to your favourites (three dots in the top right of this post) so you don’t miss the next tip for learning English in a way that inspires and empowers you. #learningenglish #englishtips #studygram #learnenglishonline #advancedenglish #englishliterature #languagetips

EDGY Expert Advice Series #6: Ian McMaster What a pleasure to talk to Ian! We covered a whole range of great subjects including: - Ian’s beard - @business.spotlight_official magazine - Why you should stop trying to make your English more advanced and complex so that people understand you better - Communication strategies to make you more successful in your meetings with international teams. 🌈 Thank you so much for being my guest @i.mcmaster! For those of you interested in Ian’s book (and I’ve looked at it — it’s good!), it’s called “Trainingsbuch Business English”. If you found our conversation helpful, please drop your favourite tip or insight into the chat. And come back soon for my next expert interview with Hugh Dellar from @lexical_lab! :) #learningenglish #englishtips #businessenglish #englishcoaching #languagecoach #englishcoach #languagelover

EDGY Expert Advice Series #5: Mike Budden Another great conversation in my interview series where I talk to my favourite colleagues and ask them to share their best English learning tips with you! Mike and I talked about: - Do you need talent to have a great accent? - How important is it to pronounce words perfectly so that people can understand you? - What are the differences between learning English and German? - How to learn advanced vocabulary 📚 Thank you so much for being my guest @miketalksenglish. It was really fun to talk to you, as always! And check out Mike’s new page @lerne_deutsch_mit_mike if you’re learning German! If you found our conversation helpful, please drop your favourite tip or insight into the chat. And come back in two weeks for my next expert interview! :) #learningenglish #englishtips #englishcoaching #languagecoach #englishcoach #languagelover #englishpronunciation

Many people say that reading books is the best way to improve your vocabulary. Yes, but unfortunately, the learning doesn’t happen automatically. Here are three things you should know so that your reading actually leads to you improving your active vocabulary! 1. You should always read books that are slightly above your level. Slightly. That means, they can’t be too hard either! A good test is to look at one page of the book and count: how many words do you have to look up so that you can follow and enjoy the story? If you don’t have to look up anything, the book might be too easy. If it’s between 3 to 10 words, it’s at a good level. Anything over 10 is definitely too hard! 2. You have to enjoy it. Don’t choose a book because you think it’s something you should read – actually go for something that you really want to read, even if it’s something silly! In the video, you see me reading Twilight – this series was super helpful for me when I first started reading in Italian and needed something really easy. Reading it on holiday was super fun and didn’t feel like work. I read all three books on my two-week holiday in Italy – and my Italian wasn’t even that good then! 3. If you want to actively grow your expression in English and see results, you have to find a way to add some active vocabulary practice into your reading. Just reading the books is not going to help you actively grow your language range and accuracy – you need practice! So use the built-in vocabulary trainer or a cute notebook to write down the phrases you really want to learn and then use the first opportunity you have to practice them! Hope these tips help you read happily in English! Leave a comment with what your next book in English is going to be!🌈 PS: This post is not sponsored by the manufacturer of this e-reader. I just think they’re a good idea! #studygram #vocabularybuilding #learningenglish #englishliterature #englishlovers #learningenglish #polyglot

Next time you’re in the UK and a person in a shop says “Woodchuck a bag wizard, ma darlin’?”, don’t be alarmed. Natural, spoken English often becomes very reduced and sounds very different from the language you learn in your language lessons. This can lead to a big shock for people like you who have invested so much time in improving their English skills only to be hit over the head with the reality of rapid, natural speech when they hear it for the first time. #RichardCauldwell explained this really well with his greenhouse/garden/jungle analogy, which I talk about in this video. If you can’t understand everything people say to you, it’s not your ‘bad English’. It’s just that people who speak English every day are not aware of how much their words and sounds are squeezed and squashed — they’re used to speaking to people who understand them! It’s absolutely no problem if you ask them to repeat themselves (even multiple times!). You can experience what this is like when you go to a shop you don’t normally go to and you don’t understand the things the cashiers ask you (happened to me in a “Subway” restaurant last week!). After you lose the fear and shame around asking people to repeat themselves (and you should!) you can go back home and work on improving your listening skills in a targeted way with a trained professional. 🙋🏼 Follow me for more tips and resources on how to speak English more freely and joyfully. Add me to your favourites so you don’t miss the next post! (To do that, click the three dots at the top right-hand corner of this post and click “Add to Favourites”. :) And if you want help preparing for a trip to the UK or some other important event soon, send me a message so we can talk about how I might support you! #englishpronunciation #englishtips #pronunciation #everydayenglish #englishcoach #learnenglish #advancedenglish

Many people say that reading books is the best way to improve your vocabulary. Unfortunately, this is just not true. Here are two reasons: 1. The language in books is often very far removed from spoken language and so you will not automatically learn a lot of ready-to -use vocab here. This is different in #graphicnovels and #comicbooks where the language in the speech bubbles is much more natural and closer to authentic spoken language. 2. If you want to actively grow your expression in English and see results, you have to find a way to add some active vocabulary practice into your reading. Just reading the books is not going to help you actively grow your language range and accuracy – you need practice! So write down the phrases you really want to learn and then use the first opportunity you have to practice them! Leave a comment if you have a graphic novel you can recommend for language learning! In the video, you see the beautiful book “La Fille dans l’Ecran” by Manon Deveaux and @loulubie in the Italian translation, which one of my best friends gave me when I started learning Italian. It learned a little of great phrases from it and the story is wonderful. 🌈 #studygram #vocabularybuilding #learningenglish #englishliterature #englishlovers #learningenglish #polyglot #learningtips

How to improve your English while watching Netflix 🍿💻🧠 Watching your tv shows in English is not going to make your English great automatically. Watching to is essentially a passive activity and while it will help you improve your overall understanding and your positive feeling towards English, it does not help you improve your active skills. If you want to improve your English while you watch Netflix so that your active vocabulary grows over time and you can express yourself more freely in conversations, you have to combine your passive consumption with some active practice. This video shows you how to use a really great free browser extension to bridge the gap between your passive Netflixing and your active language practice. This post is not sponsored; I just thought it was a really great tool and wanted to share it with you! Thank you @jhf_jung for showing me this fabulous tool! 🌈 If you want to make progress in English faster and learn how to improve your active skills, I have a 5-day email course full of ideas like the one in this video. You’ll love it. Comment “progress” and I’ll send you the link! #learningenglish #learningthroughplay #learningenglishonline #englishvocablary #improveenglish #advancedenglish #languagelearning #polyglot

Celebrating 1k followers… or tying to. 🎭 I think this is something we need to talk about: being able to share things that we’re proud of. On instagram, in our lives, with people, with ourselves. We all work hard. When something good happens and we have the impulse to celebrate it, we should not stop ourselves because we fear that it looks like we’re bragging. So this is me, processing my feelings, hoping that being open about this can move a couple of you to overcome your own fear of visibility and share the things you’re proud of. Share in the comments if you have something you want to celebrate! 🎉 #1kfollowers #contentcreator #instagramgrowth #fearofvisibility #celebrateyourself #selflove #smallbusiness

Soooo excited about this announcement! 🤩 The EGDY Expert Advice Series is a new instagram live interview series where I invite all of my favourite colleagues to bring their most valuable tips and advice on how to learn languages happily and effectively. I’m overjoyed to announce my first guest: Rachel Paling is the founder, heart, mind, and soul behind Neurolanguage Coaching. She is the person who trained me to be a language coach and every time she talks, I learn something new. Do not miss this interview! • Saturday, 17 February • 12 pm CET Rachel is an expert in brain-friendly language learning, coaching, neuroscience, and harnessing the power of the subconscious. If you have a question that you want us to answer on Saturday, leave a comment or send me a DM! See you Saturday @rachelmariepaling! :) #languagecoaching #learningenglish #languageexperts #neurolanguagecoaching

Do you feel like you only have access to 5-10% of the words you know in English? In this reel, I share how my English linguistics professor explained the way vocabulary works in the brain and how it gets activated. I think it describes the problem of active versus passive vocabulary perfectly. If you never use 90% of your vocabulary, of course it’s not at the tip of your tongue when you’re in the middle of a heated discussion! It will be there when you’re reading a text and you can understand the meaning in context. But being able to recall a word and use it in a meaningful context is a completely different process from understanding it. So, what to do? Challenge yourself! Dare to use your words! Dig deep, reach for words you’re only half-sure you can use right, practise, get better. When you do that, you will have more of these wonderful moments when suddenly a phrase comes out of your mouth that you didn’t even know you knew! Let the magic happen! :) Leave a comment if you liked this explanation and feel inspired to rummage through your vocabulary drawer! #learnenglish #englishvocab #businessenglish #englishmastery #advancedenglish

Get EDGY for work! Check out the B2B page on my website and tell your boss, tell your team, tell your HR department! 1:1 coaching, team coaching, and workshops. All to help you use English at work more easily and happily! Everyone’s work is becoming more international: remote teams are growing across the globe, your agency is getting more international customers, and suddenly, English is the company language. Everyone likes to pretend that Business English is ‘easy peasy’ for everyone, but that’s not what I hear: - Many people feel stressed by the additional pressure of having meetings in English. - Many people are afraid of what people think about them when their colleagues and customers hear them speak English. - Many people think that someone in their position should have much better English skills. This is where language coaching can really help, because we look at the problem holistically. I will not walk into your company waving a Union Jack 🇬🇧, drill you in idioms and make you feel stupid about your grammar mistakes. I will talk to you and find out what you need, what impression you want to have on people, and give you the tools for how to grow your English in the way that you want. Because it’s about you, it’s not about your English. Check out my B2B offers here: www.edgycoaching.de/b2b Let’s work together! ✨ #businessenglish #creativeagency #agenturleben #englischlernen

And here we have the last part of my interview with fellow language coach @sabrina.languagecoach. ⁠ In this part, we talk about how to close the gap between your passive and active language skills. If your English is at an upper intermediate level, you will know this feeling: in your head, your English sounds really fluent, but the reality of what you can produce actively feels truly frustrating sometimes! Here, you have our advice for what you need to do at this point in your language learning journey to close the gap and grow your active skills. ⁠ ⁠ Thank you so much for the great conversation, @sabrina.languagecoach. Come back to Hamburg soon so that we can continue our conversation!⁠ 💖 ⁠ Leave a comment if you would like me and Sabrina to talk again soon!⁠ ⁠ #languagelearning #learningmethods #languagecoaching #neurolanguagecoaching #learningenglish #learningitalian #coaching #speakingskills