Accelerate Your English Confidence — Part 2 + FREE Download
Part 2 of how to accelerate your English confidence in 2020 + a free bonus with 30 speaking prompts for daily practice.
In this lesson, we’ll finish the process to set successful goals and become unstoppable in your English this year.
- You’ll learn how to make real progress in your English confidence and stop wasting time on what doesn’t work.
- Learn how to prioritize what you want.
- Begin taking steps today to be a more confident English speaker.
In 2020, I want to help you focus on what will accelerate your English confidence and growth.
PLUS — I have a surprise bonus for you! 🙌
Watch the lesson to find out how to use my 30 Speaking Prompts for Daily Practice to give you an immediate boost toward your English goals.
Part 2 on how accelerate your English confidence in 2020.
Lesson by Annemarie
Accelerate Your English Confidence in 2020 — Part 2
5 Questions to Accelerate Your English Confidence in 2020
Here are the 5 questions to finish your plan to accelerate your English confidence this year.
- What did you do in 2019 that helped you move toward your goal of English confidence and can help you continue in 2020?
- This is a fun one. It’s time to dream. For this question I absolutely want you to forget about all those negative memories and fears. Just focus on what’s possible.
- On your list, what is most important to you right now? Why?
- Now let’s zero in on ( = focus intently) on that specific goal you circled. Imagine that you accomplish that goal by the end of 2020 — how would that feel to you? What would your life be like? What would you do?
- What steps or actions can you take now, that will help you be that person now?
Why do these questions work?
Denis Waitely, an American motivational speaker, writer and consultant, says “To establish true self-confidence, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
In Part 1, I asked you to think about the negative stories and bad memories you want to say goodbye to in 2019 AND identify how you made progress.
I want to help you create true confidence in your English.
But thinking about 2019 isn’t enough. There are two more steps needed to make true progress:
- Make a plan.
- Take action.
The truth is: dreams will always be dreams if you don’t take action.
In Part 2, you learn how to become the confident English speaker you want to be and how to start doing it today.
Final Thoughts on Accelerating Your English Confidence in 2020
Annie Dillard says, “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
It’s seems so simple. Doesn’t it? We do have a choice about what to do today, tomorrow, and the next day.
- Option 1: hold on to those fears you had in 2019. You can continue doing things that don’t work. You can’t continue saying, “I can’t.”
- Option 2: decide that today you’re going to focus on what’s possible.
You can make choices about how to spend your time and prioritize activities that are meaningful to you, activities that help you accomplish the goals you have in life.
You don’t have to wait until the end of the year to feel and behave like the person you want to be. You can start today.
30 Speaking Prompts for Daily Practice — Free Bonus!!
I know that your 2020 goal includes building your English confidence so you can speak, share ideas, ask questions, participate in conversations, and so much more — without fear of judgement or making mistakes.
That’s why you’re here watching this lesson.
To help you get started, I have a 30-day challenge for you.
This is a 30-day speaking challenge that you can do no matter where you live and it combines perfectly with the confidence-building method I share in my “How to Say What You Want” training. (If you haven’t watched that training, I absolutely recommend that you do.)
So here’s what I want you to do:
- Download my 30-day speaking challenge with speaking prompts. These different prompts will help you activate vocabulary and practice a variety of speaking skills and grammar forms over the next 30 days.
- When you download the prompts, I’ll include a link to my ‘How to Say What You Want’ training. If you’ve never watched it, do that first and then start with your 30 day challenge.
- The last step is: tell me that you’re doing the challenge! I want to cheer you on and motivate you to keep going. You can tell me in the comment section at the end of the online lesson. That’s where I’ll be in January and February to see how you’re doing.
It’s easy. 😊
To end, I’ve got a challenge for you. After you answer the questions in this lesson, share with me:
- What is ONE action step you can take to become the confident English speaker you want to be?
And of course, if you do the 30 Speaking Prompts for Daily Practice challenge, I want to know about it!
Tell me in the comments below so I can cheer you on, check on how things are going, and help you stay on track.
Have a fantastic Confident English Wednesday!
~ Annemarie
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Hi Annemarie,
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to try free ’30 Speaking Prompts For Daily Practice’. I will definitely try and will let you know my experience and the challenges.
You’re so welcome! Keep me updated on your progress as you do your 30 days. 🥰
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Hello Annemarie! Thank you very much for creating 30-days challenge! It is really useful! I can feel that my confidence have been growing and can speak faster and easier. I love your other videos as well, I watch them when I have time.
Hi Yulia, I’m thrilled to hear that! How far are you in your 30-day challenge?
Annemarie, you are the best English teacher and when I listen English from you every video, I learn more and more confident to speak English. I’v got your email already and thank you so much. I will try the best for this 30 days challenge.
Thank you so much, Prung! I’m thrilled to hear my lessons are useful to you and excited for you to try the 30-day challenge. Have you started? How is it going so far?
Loved ALL the topics you send me thru email. I may not have enough time to open it immediately but im excited to open those mails and learn, when i have free time to do so .
Thanks, Rizza. I’m glad to hear that.
I loved this challenge. And even though, I didn’t have the feedback online, I feel like.
I can speak a little more without having to remember the words, I want to use.
In very novel and practical.
Listening to myself on the recording is also something I am getting used to as normal.
Thanks
I’m THRILLED to hear that, German. Listening to yourself and becoming comfortable with your voice is essential in confidence-building. And I love that this process also teaches you how to correct your own mistakes.
Thank you for doing the challenge. And feel free to keep doing it! There’s always opportunity to grow.
Hi Annemarie, I’m doing the 30-day challenge. It has been a wonderful experience, and every day I feel more fluent.
This definitely works. Today I go for day 18
👏👏🙌🙌 Love this, German. I’m so glad to hear it. What is the biggest change you noticed doing this challenge?
Hi Annemarie! First of all I want to thank you for this amazing lesson, your ideas are always fantastic.
I’m joining to this challenge and I’m sure, it will boost my English. I started my first day just today.
See you soon in AC.
Woohoo — awesome, Jenny! I’m thrilled that you’re doing the 30 day challenge! How are things going?
(And yes!!! We’d love to see you in AC again. We *miss* you.)
Hi Annemarie. I just finished my 3rd day and I’m excited to keep going with the next speaking prompts. Thanks for this lesson, it’s marvellous!
Awesome, Lorena!! I’m so thrilled to hear it. How are things going after Day 3?
Hi Annemarie: I’ve just finished my Day 2 ” Daily work routine”. First I want to thank your generosity to prompt us to make your 30 daily practice. All of your predictions about the things were to happen has happened to me when I made the exercise, “record, listen to, and record again” I think I wouldn’t be fair if I didn’t comment on my experience, perhaps, to help you and other learners. As the record initially was being difficult because I needed too much time between my mind and my speaking match I made up to write my thoughts… Read more »
Hi Jaime – you are AWESOME!!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your experience and following the 30 speaking prompts. Huge high-fives to you. 🙌🙌🙌🥰 Have you continued after Day 2? How is it going so far? As for your question, I have *many* students who record themselves 4, 8, 10, 13 times when they first start to record themselves. It is slow at the beginning and you need time to think. That’s normal. But as you practice, you’ll get more comfortable with your voice and begin to think about what you want to say more quickly. So don’t give… Read more »
I am really fascinated by your way of teaching. I’ll take up this 30 days speaking challenge and start my year head on. Can we share the audio file with you or we have to type our script in the comments? Please advise.
Hi Nikita,
Thanks so much for the kind comment. Have you started the 30 days of speaking prompts? How’s it going so far?
When you do your speaking prompt, the best method to follow is the strategy I use in my How to Say What You Want training.
I’m excited to hear how it’s going for you.
Hi Annemarie! I loved this lesson! The 30-day challenge is all I need to start the year motivated and focused; I will do it for sure! Thank you for this fantastic lesson! Miss you and all from the Advanced Conversation Group!
But how we can follow the 30 days challenge if we don’t have videos?
Hi Assia, you can download the 30 speaking prompts for daily practice to do the challenge.
Hi dear Emilia, I’m so glad you loved this lesson!!! How is the 30-day challenge going for you so far? Have you been doing the speaking prompts? We’re missing you and I hope all is well!