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I love the learning-teaching-learning process. So thankyou so much for your time and interest! Through quick results I love to show, that we are ALL experts in communication. Through simple interesting dialogue you will feel your own Communication Confidence℠. Immediately in a lesson I will show you Three Essential Principles and Four Key Questions. These will accelerate your own confidence in English-language communication. I will also teach you about GLOBISH℠ It is the exciting new way of communication in English. You will understand its power within minutes! You know “success breeds success”. So I make sure you feel GREAT in our communication. This good feeling happens within minutes of our first contact. I don't just teach, I also learn. I always test my work on my self. I claim to be able to have a simple conversation in ANY language, but without any preparation in vocabulary or grammar beforehand. You can see my successful results in some of ten languages from around the world. Just look for my "Mo Riddiford" channel on YouTube. Maybe your language will be next! Please read about about the experiences of my past clients. Simply follow these instructions. Simply type “effective IN english” (make it one word!) into Google. Then look for “references” in the menu list, then “testimonials”. (It seems Italki doesn't allow direct links) BACKGROUND I have taught thousands of adult learners from fifteen countries over the last fourteen years. This includes teaching English at five universities on two continents, within many small and large companies, and also to many professionals. Born and grown up in New Zealand, with over five years in Australia, England, the United States and now Berlin in Germany. I have also lived in Saudi Arabia, teaching at two universities. I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTACT WITH YOU!
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    Richard is one the foremost polyglots worldwide with usage of about thirty languages.

    So I think he's being a little too humble, just like the British tend to do.

    But for me I always listen to his advice, because he has so much experience.

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    November 15, 2016
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    I think it's a fantastic slogan!

    I slightly disagree with the other comments however.

    Here the key factor is how it sounds, whereas all the other comments so far suggest the influence of the idea of correct English grammar.

    Of course the other factor is if native speakers prefer it.

    Here the answer is obvious.

    One shot, one kill. No luck, just skill.

    I added the full stop, since you want to help the reader to know that it's not any more a list.

    The most effective speakers would also add a slight pause, to communicate the maning of the full stop.

    And it definitely should be 'no', instead of 'not'.

    Why?

    It just sounds way better.

    Say it yourself.

    Your version with 'no' has better rythm.

    (Yes I chose to write the last sentence in a more verbal and less correct way. Because it just sounds way better!)

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    November 14, 2016
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    What a great question!

    Yes. absolutely!


    In fact Papua New Guinea is the most extreme example of this; this country has just seven million people with only about 65% of the people able to read. But it has 850 languages! Very often you just need to travel to the next valley to meet a very different language.

    So many of these people speak many languages, but also cannot read or write.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea


    I can also tell you my own story:

    I claim the ability to have a simple talk in any language, but without the words or grammar of that language beforehand.

    Yes it sounds extreme, but actually anyone can do it.

    After all you learnt your first language like this.

    It is all based on Communication Power℠ (sometimes called Communication Confidence℠)

    Here's some more information about this: 

    http://effectiveinenglish.com/confidence_wins/

    So far I have tested myself with native speakers of ten languages.

    You can see some of my successes on my YouTube video channel.

    This one is with the very difficult language of Hungarian!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFXDmlWInXM


    So this is communication in languages with completely no ability to write the language!


    Thanks for your interest here.

    If you are interested in your own Communication Power, then book a lesson with me!

    Mo Riddiford

    PS: this answer was written in GLOBISH.

    http://effectiveinenglish.com/our-approach/globish-one-shared-global-second-language/


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    November 14, 2016
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    I was all ready to disagree, but in fact the understanding of the 'schwa' is essential to better English.

    Learners need to listen hard for the 'schwa'.

    It is everywhere!

    But you will only hear it in English spoken quickly.

    So learners need to understand that English vowels change a lot!

    And very often they change to the 'schwa', when we speak fast.

    An important additional point is to understand that learners of English learn two languages: the written and the spoken.

    And they are only 40% the same!


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    November 3, 2016
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    Hi everyone,

    I wrote this article a while ago.

    Since then my own understanding about Communication Confidence has developed a lot.

    I now claim I can have a conversation in any language, without any preparation beforehand in the language.

    So far I have had five-minute conversations in ten languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hungarian, Maori etc.

    At the end of each conversation like this, I ask the native speaker if it really was a conversation only in that language.

    I have also had two groups of people do the same thing!

    You can see some of my conversations on my video channel on YouTube.

    https://www.youtube.com/user/EffectiveINenglish

    Here's the good news: you can do this too!

    Wishing you every success!


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    August 1, 2016
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    Yuri, my website does work.

    I just checked it.

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    June 9, 2015
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    Dorothy,

    you wrote "I wish you were a Spanish teacher!"

    Thanks!

    Actually I have led seminars on these principles so far for learners of French, Maori, German and Portuguese. For the last I was able to begin the seminar with about two minutes of genuine Portuguese dialogue after less than four hours limited contact with the language.

    Since I am really no talent in language (just ask my German wife!) it has proven the value of these principles to me.

    So this all means, why don't I come to your online Spanish/English group one time?

    We could discuss this.......

     

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    December 8, 2014
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    Hi Andrey,

    I always recommend the Harry Potter books.

    They are fun, very popular nowadays, and good for a conversation.

    Most importantly, the conversations in the book are written very well.

    This means that you can learn many of the words used in normal conversations.

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    December 1, 2014
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    We also missed the link to the song.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwp-IvX8VM8

    Enjoy!

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    November 30, 2014
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    Dear Chaney,

    "Sawat dee Khup!" (Thai for hello)

    You are so right!

    The most important conversation is not with others, but with ourselves.

    So please make sure you speak nicely to yourself!

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    November 30, 2014
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