A Fantastic English Course. Change your mind, change your English, change your life

A Fantastic English Course

"Change Your Mind, Change Your English, Change Your Life" By Alexander Chumakov.

I don’t write English courses. I create life experiences.

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© Александр Чумаков, 2023

ISBN 978-5-0062-0404-1

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Introduction

I heard my alarm-clock ringing. It was 6:15 in the morning. I reached out for my cell-phone to turn it off. A few moments later I was sitting on the edge of my bed. I looked around. There were books, my pants, my T-shirt and something else lying on the floor. Next to the TV-set there were three pairs of shoes. The window was curtained.

I got up and went to the bathroom. When I looked in the mirror I saw a man. His face was fat. His face was not saved. His hair was untidy and not clean. He looked terrible. I realized that the man was no one else but me. Now let me introduce myself to you. My name is Alexander and I am the author of this fantastic English Course Change your Mind, Change your English, Change your Life. Let’s get back to the story.

I was standing in front of the mirror, staring at myself, trying to figure out what was going on and what had led to this chaos, to this complete disorder in my life.

That time I was working for one big company. I had a good salary. I loved what I did. Everything was great. But one morning the boss came into the office and he said that we went bankrupt and a big company bought us. New bosses never come alone. The new company owners brought new rules and new people. One of the rules was to speak real, true and excellent English. As I have never been good at English, I had nothing to do but to leave the company.

I lost my job. After five months I spent all the money I had. I was broke. I had no idea what to do. I was depressed.

But one fine day I met a man who told me how to change my mind, how to change my English and then it helped change my life completely. I decided to pay the price and become a believer. I was the same idiot, the same fool, but I was willing to move in the direction of my dream.

It took me a while to find a truly remarkable and outstanding English teacher. After seven months I got much better at English. As a result, I got my job back in the company. Again I made a decent life. It took me seven months to turn my life around. It was simple, but it was not easy. I changed, and everything changed around me. It worked out for me, and it will work out for you.

That’s why I have created this fantastic English course for you to help.

What am I going to do in this course for you?

In this course I am going to not only teach you how to speak real, true and excellent English, but I will also give you some tips about changing your English learning philosophy. I’ll guide you and I’ll train you, and most of all, I’ll give you that confidence, that belief, that M-16, if you will, and my undying love so that you can learn and speak excellent English. All this will certainly help you become a fantastic human being inside – this is my wish for you.

“Change Your Mind, Change Your English, Change Your Life.” It is going to be a turning point, a life-changing experience that you are going to have while doing this course. “Change Your Mind, Change Your English, Change Your Life” English course is based on my little English Show called “Alex Says” that I have been running successfully for a few years on my YouTube channel.

This English course is a mixture of video clips and audio lessons. The ideas, I am going to introduce in this English Course, are not my ideas. They belong to the best minds of this planet. I am very much excited to introduce them to you. Here they are: Maya Angelou, Jim Rohn, Jordan Peterson, Tony Robbins, Simon Sinek, Oprah Winfrey, Alan Watts, Robert Kiyosaki and many others.

Simply because I have a fantastic habit and I am sure you have it too, which is to learn from the best. I do learn from the best. I mean, the best minds of this planet, and I borrow their ideas and then I pass them on to you: to the people who want to have new experiences, who want to learn from the best and who want to be the best.

To achieve success in English start with yourself. Jim Rohn – an American successful businessman, millionaire, master motivator, famous writer and brilliant public speaker used to say, “The key to success is you.” I totally agree with him.

It is not a secret that we, human beings, are emotional creatures. You absolutely must feel confident when you speak with other people. Why? Because when you feel confident, you begin to notice how everything around you begins to become better: people want to hear you. You stop being so called “an invisible man”. People begin to notice you; they want to talk to you. Of course, in order to start speaking English with confidence, you have to practice a lot. You have to consciously think, feel and live through every single sentence you hear, read and say, then and only then success will come to you. It always comes. It never fails when you invest three things: money, time and energy. You will speak English the way you never did before.

“Change Your Mind, Change Your English, Change Your Life” is the door to that fascinating world of real, true and excellent English.

This is a fantastic English course that will make your dream of speaking English a reality. Join me at this fantastic English course and we will take your English and your life to the next level together.

I promise you that after doing this English course you will never be the same again. You will certainly speak English better and you will become a better human being not only outside but also inside.

I wish you good luck and every success.

With love and respect,

Your fantastic English teacher,

Alex.

The Structure of the Course

If you want to speak true, real and excellent English. If you want to think in English and if you want to build a new life, the life which is full of adventures, do my English course called “Change Your Mind, Change English, Change Your Life” and I promise you will change the way you think of English. You will improve your English. You will start speaking English the way you never did before. I am telling you, it will change your life. New opportunities will come into your life. Your life will never be the same again. I promise.

Now let me tell you what you learn in this fantastic English course.

There are 7 units and 3 months of audio lessons.

Each Unit includes:

First: Main Talk

This fantastic English course is an absolutely new set of lessons; these are called Change Your English, Change Your Life.

The reason they’re called Change Your Mind, Change Your English, Change Your Life is because in these lessons you’re going to do two things. Number one, you’re going to learn English, of course. As always, we have the mini-stories, but the content, the focus, the topics in these lessons are going to be focused on the psychology of success.

So the first thing is listen to the main talk. And you can read this as well the first time if you cannot understand easily, you can read the transcript and listen at the same time. Do this perhaps two times per day, starting with the main story and reading. Use a dictionary to look up new words, if you need to.

Second: The vocabulary lesson.

With these vocabulary lessons your pronunciation gets better, your understanding gets better and your listening abilities grow faster. This is a bridge between the main talk and the mini-story lesson. This lesson will help you build that bridge. The vocabulary lesson also teaches you one very important thing that all native speakers do. What is it? This is how to paraphrase. It teaches you to paraphrase. In other words, it provides you with the synonyms you need to say the same differently. It teaches you to use them correctly and to speak English accurately. It gives you the freedom you need.

Third: The mini-story lesson.

This is a crazy, funny, and stupid mini-story.

These mini-story lessons are the most powerful, the most important and the funnies ones. With the mini-story lessons you teach your brain English grammar intuitively, playfully like a child by answering easy and simple questions. Yes, grammar is boring. Yes, grammar is difficult. Yes, grammar is very difficult. But if the input is so interesting and so comprehensible you forget that you are listening to English. The world disappears around you. You enjoy the process. You acquire the language. Grammar takes care of itself.

Fourth: My comments

In this lesson I am going to talk briefly about the main talk again and the story. I am going to philosophize just quickly about the summery of the story. And then I am going to give you my own ideas on the story or I am going to offer other people’s ideas that can help you understand the story much better. And of course, I am going to focus on the moral of the story. In other words, what we can learn from the story to improve not only as an English speaker but also as a human being. All this, I am sure, will help you get the main idea and the main message of the story and of course, you will listen to English more, you will learn more and you will enjoy it more.

The digital MP3 format of audios will allow you to listen to them using any device you like. You may listen to them when walking in the park or going along the streets. You may listen to them when running or jogging or when doing exercises. You may listen to them at home when cooking something delicious in your kitchen. You may listen to them when driving your car or when traveling by subway to work and from work. It is easy and convenient, isn’t it?

Okay, now you have a clear picture of what you are going to do in this fantastic English course called “Change your Mind, Change your English, Change your Life”

Good luck to you! And see you soon.

How to do this Course

The name of the course “Change your Minds, Change your English, Change your life” speaks for itself. You start with an idea, right? Now it is in your head. You are preoccupied with this fantastic idea, wonderful thought and burning desire to speak English better than you are doing now. You already understand that all you have to do is change things around you. But how? Let me walk you through this process.

Now you conjure your vivid imagination to help you. You literally say, “My vivid imagination come to me. Come to me now. I need you now!” Yes, we need help sometimes. It is your vivid imagination that can make your dreams to speak Russian, more powerful, more colorful and clearer.

It is your vivid imagination that can give your dream the energy, the vitality and most importantly hope that everything will come out okay and you will certainly become successful at speaking English. Now I want you to imagine yourself speaking English. It is very easy, right? See yourself in your head speaking Russian wherever you want to: at a restaurant, on the plane, on the phone. Use that powerful instrument, that powerful weapon you have at your disposal, which is called imagination. Do it! This is your first step to make.

Second step: You believe that your desire to speak English can be real.

Now look around and find a person who already speaks English very well. In other words, you look around and you begin to look for your role model. The person who has already done what you are just going to do. This person shows you that what you want to do is possible. If he has done it, so you can do it too.

If you learned English before, let’s say in school, you took English courses or you tried to learn English by yourself. Now I want you to remember some moments from your past where you were already successful. It maybe a small victory: you were successful at saying a few sentences in English; maybe you learned a little poem or a rhyme in English. I don’t know. But one thing I know for sure is that if you did it before and if you were successful, you can do it again, but this time you are going to do it much faster and far better.

If it happened to you before, it can happen again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

All this will give you confidence, and it will give you the emotional boost to start working at this fantastic course.

Third step: Make it real. Make it tangible. Make it viable. Breath life into it

Every single day you listen, read and say loudly one lesson. You do it as many times as you can. Not one time, not two times and not three times. No! You do it as many times as you can. One time is never enough. One time never works.

And finally step number four which is discipline. Discipline is the last piece of miracle. This is the most critical step, because discipline is the bridge between your wish to speak English and your ultimate goal to become an excellent English speaker. Every single day you have to build that bridge by listening to my voice and by answering the questions.

Every day (except Saturday and Sunday) you train your brain. Every day you help yourself become better at English. Every day you make another small step across that bridge, you endeavor in the direction of your dream which is to speak true, real and excellent English.

So let’s sum it up:

1. You imagine yourself speaking English.

2. You believe in yourself. You believe that you can do it. You believe that you will speak English better than you are doing now, much better.

3. You work hard to breathe life into your dream.

4. You discipline yourself. Every single day you listen to me and answer the questions.

That’s it. This is a very easy formula, but it is very powerful. It does work!

If you follow this simple formula, I promise, you will certainly understand English better and you will speak English better than you are doing now. You are changing now, so your English is changing with you.

Good luck to you!

See you soon.

With love and respect,

Your English teacher Alex.

Unit 1 “What does it take to be an English Learner?”

Hi there! This is Alex and this is our first lesson of our fantastic English course called “Change your English, Change your life”.

In this lesson I am going to talk about things that English learners can face with while learning English. Actually, I am answering the question “What does it take to be an English learner?” In other words, what you should do to become what you want to become – a fantastic English learner.

And then you are going to have your vocabulary lesson where I am going to explain some words you may not know to help you establish, make deep, meaningful and strong connections between words to learn them faster and better and to remember them faster and longer.

And then there is going to be your mini-story lesson where I am going to tell a crazy, funny and stupid story and ask a lot of easy questions and answer them.

And finally, you will listen to my comments on this video where I am going to tell you about what it is there between the lines, how to improve faster and how to become a better English speaker and a fantastic human being.

Let’s get started.

Here is the QR code that you can scan with your phone’s camera and watch the video on my YouTube channel where I am answering this question or you can stay here and keep reading and listening to this lesson. It’s your choice. But if I were you would do both. I would watch the video and then I would read and I would listen to it.

Here we go.

Hey there! Welcome to Alex says, where you ask questions and I answer them.

My goal is to help you speak English like never before. Let’s begin.

Today’s question comes from Laura and Laura wants to know “What does it take to be an English learner?”

It is not an easy question to answer, but let me try.

Learning a foreign language, English, in particular, is certainly a huge challenge. And it literally can take years. It is not an easy process. And why should it be easy? No one said it should be easy.

But you should take it as an adventure. If you see learning English as a wonderful, fantastic and interesting journey, it will certainly change everything.

For example, let’s see an English learner as a marathon runner, not a sprinter. Of course, there are forces that pull you to left and right, but you have to stay on your course. And that involves a huge effort. And as I said it is not this day and that day. It takes time.

That’s what my parents taught me, by the way. Good things take: a long time, a huge commitment and they are difficult. And you have to be prepared for that.

Simply to say, you have to be a big believer. You have to be an optimist, believing that future will be brighter tomorrow. You have to see the end results. See yourself speaking true, real and excellent English and feel proud of yourself when you speak English.

If you do this, I promise you will certainly start speaking English like never before.

Thanks for the question. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other.

Okay, this is the end of this lesson. I mean you have watched or listened to the video and now, I am sure, you have a better understanding what it takes to be an English learner. But if you still have some difficulties understanding some words, don’t worry. I’ll explain them to you in the vocabulary lesson. You can watch this video as many times as you want to and you can share it with your friends to help them know it really takes to become an English learner.

Have a great day and see you soon. Bye for now.

The vocabulary lesson

Hi, this is Alex and this is the vocabulary lesson for “What does it take to be an English Learner?” Let’s get started.

Let me briefly remind you of what we need the vocabulary lessons for and how you can improve your English from them.

First of all the vocabulary lessons teach us the meaning of the words you might know and you may not remember well. Secondly, you it teachers us one very important thing which is the ability to paraphrase the sentence. and thirdly, it liberates you from the story by offering you a choice, a variety of similar verbs, I am talking about synonyms so that you could speak true, real and excellent English. By changing your vocabulary, you change everything around you. People begin to notice you. They remember you better and as a result, they treat you better. Isn’t it wonderful?

So let’s dive into our vocabulary lesson.

Our first word for today is a challenge. A challenge is a new and difficult task and it requires, takes great effort to do it.

Learning a foreign language is a huge challenge. It is a new, risky and difficult task. It takes a lot of efforts to do it. It is a challenge.

Next we have the word literally. Literally means in truth or really. We usually use it to emphasize that what you are saying is true, even though it seems exaggerated or surprising. It (learning a foreign language) really can take years. It, in truth or indeed, can take years. It literally can takes year.

Alright, next is the word take. Here take means understand or see. To become a great English learner you should see the process of learning as an adventure, as a journey. You should understand that learning languages is a risky thing to do simply because it is new, it is fresh and you never know the final results, right? It is a real adventure you are going to undertake, to make. It is a risky, dangerous and exciting journey. You should take it as an adventure.

Next we have two words: a marathon runner and a sprinter.

A marathon runner is someone who runs in a marathon, in a long race. He or she runs a distance of just over 26 miles which is about 42 kilometers.

A sprinter is a person who takes part in short, fast races.

This is a very good metaphor which actually means that learning a foreign language is a long race, it is not a short race. If you are a sprinter you cannot succeed in a marathon, simply because you are trained to run fast and in short distances. Running in a marathon is a long process and it takes a lot of preparation and you have to be strong and well-trained, well-prepared.

Next we see the word combinations forces that pull you to left and right. What it means is that when you learn a foreign language or when you do a new, difficult task the things like: other people, their opinions, political and moral, or financial reasons may change your mind by changing your direction in which you are going to. They literally stop you from moving in your direction or they may change your direction and you begin to lose your way, your goal and you will never get to the place of your destination. In our case, it is to become a fantastic English learner. That’s what you don’t want, right? Don’t let these forces pull you to left and right. You have to stay on your course.

And our next expression is to stay on one’s course. When you stay on your course it means you don’t change your direction. You don’t change your opinion. You don’t change your beliefs. You don’t change. You continue to follow your direction. You remain on your course. You don’t change your course. You are where you are. You continue to want to become a great English learner. You stay on your course. I think you get the point, right?

Our next word in this vocabulary lesson is commitment. Commitment is a strong belief in an idea or system. If you want to have the good things happen in your life you have to have a strong, positive and calm belief in what you are doing. You have to have a strong belief in the idea of becoming a fantastic English learner. You have to have a huge commitment to what you are doing.

Next we have the phrase to be prepared for something. It simply means to be ready for something. That’s easy, right?

Okay, we move on and we see a big believer. A big believer is a strong, true, faithful, firm believer. In other words, a big believer is someone who is strongly, truly and firmly believes in what he is doing or in what he is going to get.

Our final expression for today is to see the end results. To see the end results means to imagine or to see in your head what you will finally get. If you work hard and if you imagine, see in your head yourself speaking, true, real and excellent English and if you always think about it in a very positive and calm way, you will become that fantastic English learner and finally a fantastic English speaker. Why? The answer is simple: we become what we think about.

That is all for our vocabulary lesson today for “What does it take to be an English Learner”. Listen to this lesson as many times as you can. Listen to my voice and see in your head yourself speaking true, real and excellent English. Don’t let different forces pull your left and right. Stay on your course and remember you are a marathon runner, you are not a sprinter. Feel proud of yourself every time you speak English and believe in what you are doing and then success will certainly come to you. I promise you will speak English like no one else. Have a great day! Bye for now.