Podcast appearances and mentions of gabby wallace

Gabby Wallace, creator of Go Natural English, joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy to talk about teaching English online, how renovating houses is like learning languages, and what it was like to live in a favela in Brazil.Featured ResourcesitalkiPatreon Extended EpisodeEnjoy the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon to get access to extended episodes and loads more content. Here's what you'll hear in the long-form episode: Building a language teaching business online Learning languages to travel - how to prepare and what to do with the language after travel is over Shannon and Benny's tips for avoiding language interference with similar languages Gabby's ideal day of language learning Learn more and access this bonus content on Patreon.Mentioned in this Episode TuneIn Radio Go Natural English Website Go Natural English on Youtube Go Natural English on Twitter Go Natural English on Instagram Go Natural English on Facebook Go Natural English Podcast Episode OverviewSome of the topics brought up during the interview are: What inspired Gabby to begin teaching English How being a language learner makes you a better language teacher Ways renovating houses and real estate connects to language learning How to balance really diverse projects Living in a favela in Brazil How to choose topics for online content as a language teacher Corporate language training Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

Is now the time to become a digital nomad? No doubt the pandemic has made working remotely more possible than ever. What are the pros and cons? Is burnout an issue? What are the economics like? We answer these questions and more with panelists Gabby Wallace, Amberly Grant, and Kitty Walders.

I love having a diverse group of guests on my show, but this episode features another YouTube Power Hour first! I have never had anyone on my podcast whose channel is totally devoted to teaching languages! Gabby Wallace is a TEDx speaker, self-development junkie, life-long entrepreneur and founder of Go Natural English, an online language training company that she started while teaching English abroad in Japan in 2011. She loves helping people from all around the world transform into fearless, confident communicators.

Do you want to explode your business by "cracking" online video and YouTube? There is no doubt... Online video is powerful, and YouTube being one of the top search engines, and mediums that can highly engage and attract the right type of cusomters to you - Has hgue potential for you and your business... when done right! This is why I bring on good friend Gabby Wallace that is walking-the-walk and has the proven track record and insights to help you start and grow your following.  AND have it turn into more clients.   In this episode we delve into: Why you need to be using online video... and how easy it can be to start. How to use YouTube to build your online or in-person fitness business. How to attract the type of customers you want so you're NOT wasting your time creating videos that don't grow your business. The simple steps that you can start from today to catapult your following and client numbers.   FREE: Join the Fitness Business Success Circle to access the training guides and join the other coaches here - http://www.coachescartel.com/freegroup

In the online entrepreneurial world, the word “content” gets thrown around quite a bit. What is content? It's the words we write, the videos we film and the audio we record and put out into the world. But it's also so much more than that.  Welcome to Should I Start A Podcast  where each week Ronsley Vaz, with the help of a star-studded entrepreneurial guest lineup, explores why you should start a podcast; build an audience, and how to keep them hungry for more. If you're thinking about starting a podcast or simply looking for a better way to get your message out to your audience, then this is the podcast for you. In this episode of Should I Start a Podcast, Ronsley speaks with Gabby Wallace, creator of the massively popular YouTube channel Go Natural English. Gabby started out as an ESL, or English as a second language teacher years ago and fell in love with teaching. But after a while, she longed for a career that allowed her a bit more freedom to travel.  In 2011, Gabby started her YouTube channel, which she puts out as a podcast now as well. Over the years, she spent more and more time “improving her craft” as she says. She now is able to share her passion for teaching English to her 1.76 Million subscribers, with 55 million total views on her videos. This immense following has made Gabby realize that content creation is an art form. And with any art form, you have to put in the work and dedication in order to evolve as an artist. Ronsley and Gabby discuss the habits she sets for herself in order to develop her craft and continue to grow her channel. They also dabble in how influential your audience can be in how you shape your content, how to stick to a schedule when you work for yourself, and why you should just get over your fear and put yourself out there.   Also within this episode: Why Gabby defines herself differently depending on who she's talking to Why despite your fears you should always hit that Publish button Why your content isn't about you How a lack of deadlines can put a damper on your content creation Gabby's production process How to challenge yourself through content Why you shouldn't be afraid of competition   Resources: Watch Go Natural English  Listen to the Go Natural English Podcast  Go Natural English Website Gabby Wallace on LinkedIn

YouTube is full of an incredible range of content, but is it a good platform to build a successful channel around teaching a skill? On this episode of TubeTalk, we talk to a creator that’s done just that. Gabby Wallace runs a very successful YouTube channel called Go Natural English which teaches American English to learners. She’s generated 55M views for her videos, and with a growing subscriber base of 1.6M, she’s tapping into a clear demand from viewers for this type of content. I was fortunate enough to spend some time with Gabby at one of the recent video conferencing event held in Los Angeles, where we got to unpack her channel, understand her strategy. In this podcast you will learn:- How you can use your skills to teach others on YouTube- How to leverage the huge demand to learn new skills via YouTube- How to monetize your educational content on YouTube For the full show notes, head over to https://vidiq.com/blog/post/how-teachers-can-use-their-on-youtube-tubetalk-188. Don't forget to leave a review and subscribe in your favorite podcast app!Any questions or comments? feel free to email me Liron@vidIQ.com

I want to present seven steps that you can use as a clear simple guide for learning English. You can always come back to these steps because they will help you no matter what level or stage you're currently at in English. So if you're ready to begin then let's get started. If you just follow the path that's been set out for you in English learning, you'll probably take traditional English classes. You'll let your teacher tell you what to learn. And then after months or even years of study, you'll realize you're not where you want to be. Maybe your teacher led you down a different path that they thought was interesting but didn't help you accomplish your goals. The seven steps to fluency help you to create your own goals and your own way of learning English. The seven steps to fluency are actually from inside the English Fluency Formula, an e-book that I wrote for you to help you learn English in just 15 minutes a day. So I'm gonna share them with you. Normally, you'd have to buy this ebook to read them but I really want to share the seven steps at least to give you a start, and then you can decide if you'd like to get the full ebook.   The Seven Steps to English Fluency Number one is think and plan. So in other words think about why you want to learn English. What is your reason?  Then plan what you need to know in English in order to be able to do your goal through English. So why are you learning English? Is it to travel? Is it to improve your career or your business, if you're an entrepreneur? Is it perhaps just for a personal hobby, or are you taking a test? So, know your reason why. Think about what English you'll need to accomplish your goals and we're gonna make a plan to achieve them successfully. Number two: surround yourself with English input. So for example, listen to music in English. Read books and articles in English. Set your phone and your mobile device settings in English. Surround yourself in English so that you're creating an English lifestyle and a habit of consuming English. Number three: be curious be curious about what interests you and try to learn about it in English. Number four: repeat. You need to be aware of what you're listening to and repeat the phrases and words that are interesting and useful and new to you. Repeat new words out loud with feeling with emotion and with volume as long as you're not going to disturb anyone else. Repetition and repeating them with feeling are going to help you to remember them. Okay number five: connect. Again, to help you remember words you want to connect new words with old words that you already know or perhaps words in your own language. This is different than translation. To connect a word doesn't mean to translate it. It means to connect it to something you already know that you can relate it to. So for example, when I was learning Japanese, I learned the word for the check. When you go to a restaurant when you ask for the check it is "o-waiso." That's one way to say it and this sounds a bit to me like an "eyesore" which means something that is not pleasant to look at. Nobody likes getting the check and knowing how much they have to pay, right? I remembered o-waiso very easily because I connected it with that idea of an eyesore because it sounds similar and there's kind of a funny meaning there. So you have to try to do this with new words in English connect them to something you already know. You can connect new words also with sounds or with songs. That's why I like to learn language a lot through music because the tune helps me to remember the words. So there's a lot of ways that you can connect words. Next, number six: you need to use the words that you're learning. Use the new sounds, the words, the phrases, the sentences that you're learning.  Number four was repeat them. But number six is different because I want you to actually create your own sentences. You could use what you're learning by writing something or speaking out loud and use what you're learning, so you're applying it in real life. Finally, number seven is review because reviewing is so important to keep new words fresh in your mind. So review don't be afraid to listen to the same song or to watch the same TV series or movie or read the same article or the same book over and over. So to read these seven steps and much much more inside the English Fluency Formula, purchase your ebook today. It's super easy and fast to purchase it and to access it in the members area of the Go Natural English Website. There are thousands of English learners who have purchased it, and who are really enjoying it. So you can read some of their opinions and comments below as well, so thanks so much for watching. I hope that these seven steps will serve you and help you in your journey to English fluency.

Gun To Your Head: From Gun Point to Car Crash: Real Life Stories of Overcoming Adversity Ebook!  Hey Path Hunters! Today's guest I have an awesome soul, Gabby Wallace a Youtuber with 350,000 subscribers. Gabby creates online courses helping adults learn English as a second language all across the world. Launching her English learning channel in 2011 she is a passionate digital nomad that has an amazing journey. By saying no to the norm, and choosing her own path, she took off early in her journey to teach English in Japan  Side Hustle Gabby was explaining that during her time in Japan she knew she really wanted to strike off on her own and decided to invest her time into her Youtube channel but during the first few years of it, she wasn't making any money and didn't know if she'd want to pull the plug on it or not but something deep inside her told her to keep going. It was about 2014 when she started gaining more momentum, the money started coming in. I love what Gabby did for this because she continued to work her job in Japan as an English teacher while at the same time creating a side hustle making sure that her side hustle was generating the same amount of money for her to leave.   Start Now A great lesson that Gabby mentioned was that most people think Youtube right now is saturated and everything's been said but that shouldn't stop you from creating your own channel because you'll be able to learn from those who are already doing it before you. She mentioned that she witnessed other YouTubers grow at a monumental rate because they've learned from those who are already doing it and learning all the mistakes as well. A great lesson to start now, and even though it may seem saturated or crowded you should still start anyways! Gabby it was amazing chatting with you for the Path Hunters Podcast, I appreciate you for taking the time to chat with me. Until next time!! With gratitude! Follow Gabby Website | Facebook | Instagram |Youtube You may also like these episodes:   PH - 78 | Dan Schwartz | How To Achieve Your Dreams PH - 88 | Sean Croxton | Why Greatness Is A Choice  PH - 60 | Philip Mckernan | How To Be Truly Vulnerable PH – 63 | Chris Guillebeau | The Art Of Non-Conformity    Sponsor >>>Foursigmatic.com/pathhunters  Check it out and use the promo code Pathhunters and get 10% OFF your order!

Today listeners, we have a good friend of the show and YouTube master Gabby Wallace joining us. Gabby is the founder of Go Natural English and has used YouTube to market and catapult her business in the past few years. Currently, Go Natural English has 300,000+ subscribers and has grown by nearly 10,000 from the time we recorded this, to the time we published the episode. Gabby shares some really great information about growing a YouTube channel. She and I discuss the growth of her content and herself as a YouTuber. We dive into equipment, handling comments and interaction. Gabby shares her strategies for branding and creating a YouTube funnel. And then we wrap up by listening to some of the mistakes Gabby shares so others can avoid. If you have a YouTube channel or thinking about using one for business, check out this episode! “Approach YouTube with a very giving mindset…I think it's a mistake to see YouTube as a commercial or infomercial.” Gabby Wallace “The marketing led to the business, not the other way around!” Gabby Wallace 02:06: Gabby's Story 06:12: Gabby's first video content vs. her video content today 07:45: Recommended Equipment for Video Recording 09:14: Handling YouTube Comments 12:46: Videos and Content that Creates Greater Interaction on YouTube 15:15: Gabby's Strategy for Branding on YouTube 17:29: Gabby's YouTube Funnel 21:13: Mistakes to Avoid on YouTube “I don't believe in that type of competition, or competitive attitude (in business). I think we can all be more successful if we collaborate in a strategic way!” Gabby Wallice Honorable Mentions: TubeBuddy Software https://www.tubebuddy.com/ Contact Info: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNaturalEnglish http://gonaturalenglish.com/ http://gabbywallace.com/ Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/entrepreneur-house-live-in/id1069958541?mt=2

Leveraging teaching experience and a passion for helping people connect, Gabby created the YouTube channel and online school Go Natural English, now with over 250,000 subscribers and 12 million views. She is a TEDX speaker, traveler, and helps teachers become entrepreneurial YouTubers too. Sponsors: Constant Contact: See how you can be a marketer: sign up for a free trial today at ConstantContact.com/podcast! ​The Complacent​ Class: What is making us COMPLACENT in the face of such challenges? Find out in The​ Complacent​ Class​ from New York Times best-​selling author Tyler Cowen, available where books are sold.

Gabby Wallace has created an online learning empire with over 250,000 YouTube subscribers, and a converting sales funnel to her self-hosted courses. She shares her online course story with us in the show. Visit http://onlinecoursemasters.com for show notes and more online teaching resources.

Gabby Wallace has built a YouTube channel with more than 250,000 subscribers - and it generates tons of leads and customers for her online courses. Today, she talks about her humble beginnings, how she grew her channel, and how you can optimize yours. Highlights: Gabby's first (horrible) video - and why she posted it anyway (3:05) How Gabby grew her channel to 250,000+ subscribers over several years (5:15) Gabby's template for quick and easy video recording (7:30) Why competition doesn't matter on YouTube (9:45) What her video production process looks like now (13:40) Quick-win tips for optimizing an existing YouTube channel (16:15) Show notes: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/gabby

Gabby Wallace went from teaching English in a classroom to over 200,000 subscribers on YouTube. On our show, she shares some of her BEST tips on how to grow an audience and start a YT channel even if you have $0 to spend on advertising.

That went quickly! Listen in to our live event where we commemorate 100 episodes of The Busy Creator Podcast and remark on the journey. This event was a crossover with the New York City Podcast Meetup, recorded at Small City Co-working space in Brooklyn. Joining Prescott on stage are musician Joaquin Cotler (@ShinyIslands), UX designer Rashan Casseus (@rcassues) & video publisher/entrepreneur Gabby Wallace (@GabbyAWallace). Together we discuss daily practice, creating projects and nurturing them over time, and our own experiences with podcasting. Get The Episode Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 100 (MP3, 1:07:53, 32.7 MB) Download The Busy Creator Podcast, episode 100 (OGG, 1:07:53, 35.9 MB) Subscribe to Get New Episodes     Subscribe to The Busy Creator Podcast on iTunes, on Google Play Music, on Android, on iHeart Show Notes & Links Small City co-working space in Brooklyn Joaquin Cotler, musician, journalist, composer of The Busy Creator Podcast theme song Paul Shaffer, Clark Terry, Questlove — late night talk show band leaders through the years New York City Podcast Meetup Joaquin has appeared on The Busy Creator Podcast episode 41 John Lee Dumas & Kate Erickson, guests on TBC episode 50 "It's a great time to go to Puerto Rico if you already have a lot of money." —Joaquin Cotler Tweet This Creighton Mershonn & Jessi Arrington, proprietors of Small City and past guests on TBC ep 92 Vector Media Group, our default host of the NYC Podcast Meetup Nick Spriggs, partner at Vector, guest on TBC ep 91 New York City Podcast Meetup is one year old  New York City Podcast Meetup on Twitter  New York City Podcast Meetup on Facebook Prescott removed Facebook from his phone, sleeps better  The Busy Creator Podcast made it to 100 episodes — they're all here Jonathan Coulton, and his Thing A Week podcast project JoCo Cruise, featuring Aimee Mann, et al "Busy is a four-letter word." —Prescott Perez-Fox  Tweet This “Busy Beaver” is an English-language idomatic expression MIT's mascot is Tim the Beaver, nature's engineer Tim The Beaver Buzz The Busy Beaver is the mascot of The Busy Creator Podcast, but not modelled after Prescott #HumbleBrag, a definition The Busy Creator Podcast started as bi-weekly, went up to weekly, then returned to bi-weekly Bi-Weekly vs. Fortnightly vs. every-other-week, semantics TBC by the numbers: 3 years, 106 episodes (including B-Sides), 98 unique guests, 15 single-topic episodes, 4 monologue episodes TBC by the numbers, best single day downloads: 567, 11 January 2017 TBC by the numbers, best monthly downloads: 10,148, November 2016 TBC by the numbers, lifetime downloads: 103,279, as of 16 January 2017 Marc Maron's show received nearly 750,000 downloads in 24 hours when he interviewed President Obama Casper Mattresses, not a sponsor #TBC100 and #NYCPodMeet to see photos from the event Rashan Casseus, NYC native, FIT Grad, currently a Senior UX Designer Rashan & Prescott met at a fan meetup for Keith and The Girl R & P participated in The Cinnamon Challenge The Ice-Bucket Challange, The Mannequin Challenge, etc. Ice Bucket Challenge Emeril Lagasse "I make digital tools easier to use." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This "UX is the thought process of how a human being gets from point A to point B." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This MailChimp, and their mascot Freddy Disembodied Monkey Hand, the name of Joaquin's new punk band Microcopy, the words around the site on buttons, short messages, etc. Eat24, and their “hungry” shopping cart 90Elm, Rashan's cousin's t-shirt company User Stories, User Interviews — tools of planning a site Sayba Naturals, Prescott's mother's soap brand Squarespace, also not a sponsor "Websites are never finished, they are only abandoned." —Prescott Perez-Fox, paraphrasing Leonardo da Vinci Tweet This "Your website is done when you run out of time, or when the client says 'I want it up now'." —Rashan Casseus Tweet This Museum of Arts and Design, NYC Gabby Wallace, YouTube producer, teacher, online marketing coach — hates headphones!  Keith Richards Gabby defines herself as a creator. Simple. "I create something every day. Most day, many things." —Gabby Wallace Tweet This Prescott & Gabby met at Podcast Movement 2014 Gabby was a podcaster, has moved back to YouTube. GoNaturalEnglish, a video show to learn to English Friendtor, teaming up with people of complementary skills Adrienne Stortz, Katie Quinn, cooking video producers in Brooklyn Matt Cremona, woodworker "I reject all that quality and editing because it takes forever!" —Gabby Wallace Tweet This Keytar Gilmore Girls, and the revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Gilmore Guys podcast The Town Troubadour from Gilmore Girls Joaquin attended CUNY J-School, earning a Master's in Multimedia Journalism Atavist, easier to use than Squarespace or WordPress Roots on The Record, Joaquin's graduate project speaking to musicians and  Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Marian McPartland, 1918–2013 The Nerdist Podcast Alicia Witt, and her episode on The Nerdist The 101, traffic magnet in Los Angeles Studio 360 Kurt Andersen Ashley Milne-Tyte, previous guest on TBC ep 8 WBAI, the liberal talk station which plays Latin Jazz Ray Barretto "Way more fun than playing music is listening to other people play." —Joaquin Cotler Tweet This The Busy Creator Podcast is switching from bi-weekly publication to a seasonal format 9 Habits of Highly Creative People Zapier, upcoming episode for season.next Hulse Durrell, upcoming episode for season.next Vancouver Olympics New brand and website for The Busy Creator coming in the spring SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), better than CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)  Rashan Casseus on Twitter  Rashan Casseus on Facebook  Rashan Casseus on Instagram  Rashan Casseus on LinkedIn  Gabby Wallace on Twitter  Gabby Wallace on Facebook  Gabby Wallace on Instagram  Gabby Wallace on LinkedIn  Gabby Wallace on YouTube  Joaquin Cotler on Twitter  Joaquin Cotler on Facebook  Joaquin Cotler on Instagram  Joaquin Cotler on LinkedIn  Joaquin Cotler on YouTube Tools Jira Slack Squarespace Google Docs Atavist Techniques Name buttons on websites in an intuitive way; say “conclude” or “done” Consult a designer even when using a templated system like Squarespace Take team outings as a way to get to know each other Post a common planning document to keep your team accountable Share your core message; if you don't have it defined, go back to square one Mix your “main bit” with casual, less rehearsed pieces When discussing an “album”, call it a “record” to be more generic Habits Keep your skills up with family and community projects Find the intersection of your creation and what people need Post helpful content and videos; people will ask for your help Constantly learn from others via podcasts, videos, blogs, books, etc. Return to a consistent format to avoid rehearsal SaveSave

Today's interview is with Gabby Wallace. When Gabby Wallace was young, she wanted to travel the world and achieve world peace. These dreams led her on an incredible journey teaching English to students in Japan. As her vision grew, she started Go Natural English to teach English to students around the world. She has taught over 100,000 students since the beginning of her company. Throughout her career, she has visited many countries and met many interesting people along the way. Having big dreams and always looking for the “better story” has made Wallace’s life both exciting and meaningful. Gabby Wallace, founder of Go Natural English, taught English as a Second Language for 10 years before creating the Go Natural English platform. She earned a Masters Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at a top university in the United States. Also, she has worked closely with learners from many different countries who include scholars preparing for the TOEFL and IELTS tests, professionals in... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gabby Wallace believes in collaboration, not competition. She organized a one-week "flash sale" with several other online English teachers - and not only were 400 packages sold to delighted customers, but the sale also supported an educational charity. Listen to Gabby share how she organized the sale, what she learned and changed in the 2nd (and about to be 3rd) time around, and flash-sale marketing strategies that work. Highlights: How Gabby went from idea to successful super-sale in only a month (2:00) What kept her up at night during the first sale (5:15) What she learned and changed before the second sale (7:45) How the sale also contributed to charity (10:15) Marketing strategies for a flash sale (12:00) How can you apply a flash sale in other areas? (14:15) Show notes: http://www.entrepreneursinmotion.com/flash

Can you still get traction on YouTube in 2016? You sure can. In this interview, Gabby Wallace shares her best tips on how to build an audience on YouTube. Show notes: http://www.becomeablogger.com/278 Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Call the hotline @ (888) 835 - 2414

Gabby reveals how her Youtube channel went from 1,000 subscribers to 100,000 subscribers in less than a year, why her business model isn't based on what SHE wants, and how she handles internet trolls and hate mail.

If you want to learn English, you may have come across one of Gabby Wallace's hundreds of YouTube videos on the subject. Her channel, which started only because the video she recorded for her classroom students was too big to email, has grown to more than 170,000 subscribers and nearly 9 million views. Gabby is a long-time teacher and found a way to turn her subject matter expertise into a business.

My Guest today is Gabby Wallace who I am delighted to interview on this the first episode of the new branding for the show. Gabby has had amazing success with her Youtube channel and it has been one of the major contributing factors to her success.  Today she shares some great ideas about how you can be successful too!  If you find this helpful, then grab the Cheatsheet I created from the content in the show which you can get below! Guest: Gabby Wallace   Gabby Wallace earned her Masters Degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in 2010 and that same year started making ESL video classes with the goal of helping more students learn ESL in a convenient, awesome way. Gabby has been teaching English as a Second Language since 2004. She loves to travel, learn other languages and explore culture and food. In this Episode you will discover: Youtube Strategies you should be focusing on Why you need a clear goal Some important facts about Youtube audiences you may not know Why you need to be using Youtube Annotations Why Tags are important and how to create the most relevant ones The importance of Thumbnails and how to create an effective one Why Youtube should be seen as an interacitve platform  How to use Facebook in conjunction with Youtube How to create effective Titles for your Video Why sharing your videos is important How to tie your Youtube Video into other content What you need to know about selling on Youtube How to demarcate your free and paid content What you need to do next! Where to Find Gabby Youtube:  Go Natural English https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNaturalEnglish Laptop Teacher https://www.youtube.com/user/OnlineTeachingLife Check out Gabby's Channels and take a look and see what she is doing there and how she is doing it!   Are You Looking to Growth Hack Your Youtube Channel following Gabby's advice?    Just Click on the Image or this Link!  

Get the transcript at www.feelgoodenglish.com/gabby-english Gabby Wallace is a TEDx speaker, writer, and entrepreneur. She has created a location-independent business and travels the world while running it. She is an expert on language learning and the founder and owner of Go Natural English, an online English as a second language learning company. Her YouTube channel for English language learners currently has over 7 million views. In this episode, Gabby and I talk about her beginnings with English teaching and what she is currently doing today. She also talks about a book that has really helped her become more productive and focused each and every day, call The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. Gabby shares great insight on ways English learners can use the lessons taught in this book to become more dedicated English learners. So listen and learn! 

Gabby Wallace is the founder of Go Natural English, a platform for English learners which provides courses and video lessons. In her TEDx talk, Gabby shares her journey of how she has connected over 100,000 people around the world through hard work and taking "small steps". Dreaming big and deciding to commit 100% to her dreams has allowed Gabby to live a location independent lifestyle, where she can travel and connect with English learners all around the world. In her talk, she wants you to ask yourself 3 questions. Listen to this episode of the Feel Good English podcast and discover these three life-changing questions. For transcripts - www.feelgoodenglish.com/gabby-wallace-ted

Create an online business & travel anywhere with YouTube Marketing Expert, Gabby Wallace. Gabby started making money online by teaching English on Udemy and YouTube. Now she travels the world teaching others how to create their own online business and travel the world working on it. We’ll talk about creating a video course, marketing with YouTube, […] The post Episode #4: YouTube Marketing Expert & TEDx Speaker – Gabby Wallace appeared first on Skillhance.

http://www.tropicalmba.com/youtube/ On this week's episode, Dan and Ian are speaking with Gabby Wallace. Gabby is extremely qualified at teaching English as a second language, and has spent many years doing so in Japan. She got fed up with the traditional ways of teaching language abroad, and she decided to start her own business called Go Natural English. Gabby's business has been built almost entirely through her YouTube channel, where she has over 150,000 subscribers. YouTube can be an incredibly powerful platform for location independent entrepreneurs and on this episode, Gabby is sharing all of her best tips and strategies for using YouTube to your advantage.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkbd5Z_l9F0   Episode transcript below:   English is essential. It's the number one second language in the world. There's more non-native English-speakers than native speakers. And in any case, English is essential for your professional, for your personal life, and for growing as a person. If you want to do business, if you want to study or travel abroad, if want to connect with people, if you just want to know more about the world around you, English is the best tool to do that. Maybe you've been studying English for years, but you still struggle with shyness, with hesitation. You struggle to speak. If you're struggling to speak, it's unfortunately probably because traditional English classes haven't really caught up with the modern English-speaking world. We lack practice in the classroom speaking with native speakers and other fluent English speakers. The same thing happened to me when I was learning Spanish. I was taking university Spanish classes and I learned a little bit of grammar, how to read and even how to write a little bit, but then, when it came to speaking Spanish in the real world, I was totally lost. So I created my own method for learning Spanish fluently and that's how I created Go Natural English, to help English learners like you. Now, the Go Natural English method is a course online. The Go Natural Team and I have created our best course ever, and I want to invite you to be part of it. Fluent Communication is the best course to help you with your fluency. We cover all skills and you get tons of practice. Compared to taking private English classes, it's much faster and easier. That's my goal: to make it fast, fun and easy for you to learn English. Instead of taking years of private lessons and spending a lot of money, the fluent communication course is sixteen weeks long and it's an incredible value. With one week of lessons at a time, you can study independently online from anywhere on your own time. No commuting, no worrying about schedules. It's all up to you. And now there's more detailed video lessons and lots of supplementary materials to help you to learn faster and easier, and to get tons of practice too. So you feel confident in the skills that we're learning together. With Fluent Communication, you'll feel confident in your English fluency and you'll also feel like you belong in our community of like-minded English learners. You've probably met me through Go Natural English online, but in case you don't know, I'm Gabby Wallace, an American English teacher and I've been teaching English in the classroom for ten years, and online for five years. So I know what it's like to struggle with English, but my goal is to help you to learn quickly, in a fun way, and I've also studied and learned other languages to fluency myself, so I know what it's like to be a learner. Also I have my master's degree in teaching English, and I've taught in the US and abroad, to university-level students and to corporate business people as well. Check the details below for how to join the course. You can click on “Buy Now” to be part of the course when it launches. Now, I hope that you'll take action to get fluent now. Don't wait on your decision for fluency. Start enjoying confidence and fluency in English now. I hope to see you on the inside of the course. The post English is Essential – Join the New Class Fluent Communication appeared first on Go Natural English.

Gabby Wallace started her Youtube channel back in 2011 as a way of sharing homework materials with students. It petered along for a while, but she started to step up production in late 2014, and managed to grow the channel from about 20k to 100k subscribers in less than 1 year. Today she runs a 6-figure business selling ESL courses via her youtube channel and her website, GoNaturalEnglish.com, and is launching a new venture to help other online teachers do the same.

In this interview I'm joined by Gabby Wallace, owner of Go Natural English and the Laptop Teacher which helps entrepreneurs with YouTube marketing and creating online courses. She's here to share her story of quitting my university professor job in February to travel to 18 countries this year, and growing an online teaching business that's earning 3 […]

Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research   Interview starts at 14:38 and ends at 41:53   It's not about Amazon Echo, it's about putting microphones in various contexts in your life. Plug one in, like a Glade air freshener, into your bathroom, one next to your bedstand, one in the hallway, one in the laundry, and pretty soon you don't need Dash buttons. All you have is Alexa everywhere in your home. And you can have Alexa on your phone or in your car if you want, but but most of what Amazon sells you are thinking of in your home, in specific contexts. And so long as you have that microphone sitting everywhere, listening for you to wake it up by saying “Alexa,” that gives you frictionless commerce opportunities that are astonishing, really, compared to what we think of Amazon in 1998 when they were starting to do things like single-click ordering, and you think, “Wow, that was convenient.” We are so far past that now.   News Amazon Flex “What Amazon's Uber-like delivery service means for the sharing economy” by Brian Fung at The Washington Post - September 30, 2015 “Why I Work for Amazon: A Response” by Maria Renz at re/code - September 25, 2015 You can help the Kindle Chronicles by purchasing your new tablet using these links (thanks!): Fire and case Fire HD 8 and case Fire HD 10 and keyboard case “First Look: Amazon's $50 Fire tablet” by Chris Meadows at TeleRead - October 2, 2015   Tech Tips Listener Tom Semple's tip for accessing the diagnostics screen an original Kindle:   Go to Settings page, then type ALT-4-1-1. The first line will say something like 'The FRAS, FIRS, WEBSITE, TODO, CDE server is UP, UP, UP, UP, UP' when everything is working. These will all be 'DOWN' if wireless is turned off or some mix of UPs and DOWNs when there is some other issue (again the meaning is not particularly clear other than 'UP' is good and 'DOWN' is not good). ALT-5-1-1 initiates a 'loopback test', which always seems to fail on my Kindle. No idea what it is for. Finally there is ALT-6-1-1, which seems to show absolutely nothing. If I remember, it was sometimes necessary to switch cellular networks, maybe that is what it is for.    Click here to buy a $25.95 replacement battery for the original Kindle. (via Tom Semple)   Interview with James McQuivey   Content Starts at 41:57 and ends at 44:28: Excerpts from my conversation with Gabby Wallace, author of the forthcoming Kindle book, Go Natural English: Learn to be Fluent in 15 Minutes a Day . Recorded on September 25, 2015 at the Agents of Change conference in Portland, Maine.   Next Week's Guest Alexandra Alter, publishing industry reporter at The New York Times   Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.    Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!

Are you able to learn to speak and understand American English? Gabby says that while English is a crazy language, if you have the ability to speak, you can learn other languages beside your native language, including English. It is well worth the effort as English is spoken around the world. With Gabby's release of the Go Natural English book, you will have at your disposal a wonderful tool to make the most of your American English journey. Along with the book, when you visit gonaturalenglish.com you will be introduced to materials and support to help you with your learning. Don't be afraid to explore the Go Natural English method and see how you can reinforce your language skills, while at the same time meeting other American English learners with whom you can communicate.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6RtqHdMX7M   Episode transcript below: Hello, and welcome to Go Natural English. I am so excited to announce the release of the Go Natural English book. This book will share with you the natural way of learning language. I'm Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher and Number One fluency coach. And I'm here to share special strategies I've developed for learning the English language. English is a crazy language, but I believe it is possible for anyone to learn it, and that includes you. It's our natural ability to be able to use language to communicate with each other, and if you can speak your native language, then you can speak English. In the book you'll learn strategies for speaking English with confidence and fluency. You'll see real examples from native speaker conversations broken down into lessons that you can easily understand, and vocabulary that you can use in your everyday conversations. I believe this book is the perfect guide for the intermediate English learner who desires to become fluent and confident to use English as a tool in your daily life, to live the life that you want, an international life where you're connecting with people from all over the world, and you're using English as a tool to be able to pursue your passion, and your professional life. So, if you'd like to find out more about the book, come to gonaturalenglish.com/book – that's b-o-o-k. I'll see you there. Bye for now. The post Fluency in 15 Minutes a Day – Go Natural English Book Release News appeared first on Go Natural English.

Listen up! I want to tell you about an exciting offer that Gabby is making for the Go Natural English community to help build confidence and English fluency. In the coming weeks there will be a series of YouTube videos released regarding steps to fluency in listening and speaking.   You will not want to miss this if you are serious about improving your American English language skills. Go natural English is dedicated to teaching you how American English is actually spoken, not just the rules of grammar that so many courses teach.   Be sure to visit gonaturalenglish.com to find out about all of the resources and support available to you regarding the learning of American English. This is a great opportunity to share your adventures with other English language learners. Stop by and leave a comment, or ask a question. Just remember, there are many people out there in the same boat as you who want to be able to communicate in English to improve their fluency. Don't be afraid to make contact with them.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4eA-CkgEU   Episode transcript below:   Hey. How's it going? I'm Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher and today I'm not in a recording studio. Today I'm coming to you from the shore of the Bosphorus River. You can see behind me. I hope it's not too distracting but this is the best place – kind of quiet – where I could make a quick English tip and update for you today. So, in this quick tip, I want to talk about why it's difficult to become fluent in English and what the answer is. How to become fluent in English. I get this question so much. How can I become fluent in English? What should I do? Well, I think the biggest problem is that in most English classes we don't start with steps or formula, or instructions. You know how when you get a new – it could be a new toy, it could be a new piece of furniture, it could be a new game – you usually read the instructions or maybe a friend tells you how to play the game. But you need to know the rules in order to play the game, and for me, that's a lot like learning English. I mean, in my mind it really helps me to know the rules before I play a game, and learning a language to me is a lot like playing a game. So, what I'd like to do with you over the next seven quick English tips, back-to-back, I'm going to share my seven steps for English fluency. These are steps that I made for the Go Natural English community, for you, to show you exactly the rules of the game – How to become fluent in English. So, it's kind of detailed, so, I want to take it one step at a time. Now, if you would like the video, audio, and the text – all of the subtitles for all seven steps, come to gonaturalenglish.com/7steps. That's the number 7 s-t-e-p-s, and you can download all of that with one click. I want you to come visit so, I would love to share that valuable resource with you to help you improve your fluency. I'm going to keep this really quick but for today what I want you to remember is that it's really important to understand the rules of the game if you want to win it. Okay, so that's what we're going to do with English – with our seven steps to fluency over the next few days. This is a really valuable series that I'm sharing with you that could be its own course but I want to offer it free for you to help you as much as I can. So, come on over and grab the video, audio, and text for all seven or you can wait over the next week or two weeks, I believe, it'll take some time since we're on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday release for quick tips. You can wait and you can watch the videos separately, the audio separately, and read the subtitles as you watch the videos on YouTube, or you can come over to gonaturalenglish.

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Speaking on the telephone or on Skype in a foreign language has to be one of the most terrifying things you can do. Speaking to someone who keeps quiet and does not say anything makes you feel even unsure of yourself. You begin to wonder if you've said something wrong, or are not being understood.   If a non-native English speaker is speaking with you in English, try to make them feel at ease. Give them positive feedback as they speak (without interrupting them). You should use comments such as “yes, I see” or “I know what you mean”, or even just “uh huh” to let them know that you are listening and understanding what they are saying to you. It makes the conversation flow better, and makes both of you feel better.   Tips like this one can be found at gonaturalenglish.com where you can also learn how to improve your English language grammar and spelling skills as well as speaking and listening. Gabby Wallace is there to support you along your English language journey.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwcPOSHuD7w   Episode transcript below:   Hey There! What's up? How's it going? I have a quick English tip for you that will help you to make your telephone conversations, or Skype conversations, whatever you use to call people up these days. It will make them even better – one big mistake to avoid – so, if you want to know, keep watching. Now, I had an experience where I was talking on Skype with a friend of mine – actually, now she's a friend but I guess you could say when I called her, it was the first time that we spoke so I didn't really know her at all, and when we were talking on Skype, I experienced this weird feeling because every time that I said something she was kind of silent. Actually, she was silent. She didn't say anything so I had to again say something more, or ask a question to see if she would respond but her silence made me realize that in American English telephone conversations, we're always making some noise or small comments to show that we're listening, that we're interested, and that we're really engaged in the conversation. So, without even using any new words, it's important to use these phrases like “uh huh”, “yes”, “I see”, “Okay.” These kind of phrases make a huge difference and they'll make your partner, or the person you're speaking with feel like you're really interested and part of the conversation. Now, I am not sure about this silence in other cultures or other languages, but I think in American English we don't like silence. So, try to be aware and observe how your conversation partners are feeling that silence or if they're not feeling that silence. It's all about observing and learning from your surroundings and that's the natural way. So, if you'd like to learn more about how to learn English the Go Natural English way, come back to gonaturalenglish.com, where you can find out about the premium course and I'd like to give you a free eBook just for visiting. Thanks so much for watching and I hope to see you soon. Bye for now! The post Speak Fluent English and Make Your English Telephone Conversations Better in 2 Minutes appeared first on Go Natural English.

Have you ever wondered what somebody meant when they said to you, “I must be losing my mind?” You probably thought that is impossible because while a brain is a real thing, a mind is not. This is one of those rich idioms that adds flavor and color to the English language.   As Gabby and Rob explain in this English episode, the expression is normally used after someone seems to have forgotten something they had just done or seen. Most commonly it is heard when someone can't find their keys, as they're trying to run out the door. They will say, “I must be losing my mind, I was just holding my keys and only put them down for a second. Where did I put them?” Gabby and Rob explain that it is a similar phrase to “I must be going crazy.”   If you want to sound more native-like and fluent in English, be sure to add colorful phrases like this to your conversation, but make sure you are using them correctly. More tips and advice like this can be found at gonaturalenglish.com where your American English teacher, Gabby Wallace is always ready to help.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPV5n5PGIXo   Episode Transcript below:   Hello! Welcome to Go Natural English. I am so excited to be here with my friend, Rob. Rob, how are you doing? All is well, Gabby Wallace, I'm excited to be here with you and all of your audience. So, Rob is an English teacher and his students have asked him some interesting questions. One of those questions – was about - what was it- my mind – I'm losing ... Yes ...? ... something?.. I don't know – what was it? Yes, the question was, “what does ‘losing my mind' mean?” Oh, that's a great idiom. Yeah. So, it's pretty common, right ... Yeah ... ... to use “losing my mind?” ... Yeah. She lost her mind or ... You must have lost your ever-loving mind. That's a good twist on it. Yeah, the question was, “What does losing my mind mean?” Maybe – you're a little bit better at this than I am ... Oh, Please. ... but my explanation was, “basically, OK, if you forgot something or you can't focus on whatever you're trying to focus on, or if you're trying to do some work, or you're trying to find something like, “I just had my keys – I just saw my keys – what am I doing? I must be losing my mind. My keys were just right here “ and I don't know where they are now but they're in your pocket the whole time. I have to be losing my mind but you have so much on your mind, you can't focus. So ... Is it similar do you think to the idiom, “I must be going crazy”? Yeah. I might use it at the same time like, “I lost my keys. I can't find them anywhere. I must be going crazy.” It's in the same neighborhood. Mmmm. Cool. That's great. It's in the same neighborhood. Yeah, I must be going crazy. Another idiom, “It's in the same neighborhood.” It's very similar. Uh huh ... Exactly. ... awesome. Well, thanks for sharing that idiom with us. Oh, well, thank you. Super helpful. It's great. So, if you'd like to learn more idioms, more natural American English, then come visit me at gonaturalenglish.com. You can come get a free eBook and you can check out the premium course. Indeed. Alright. Thanks guys for watching. Take care. See you there.     Photo Credit: ClkerFreeVectorImages The post English Idiom – Rob talks about Losing my Mind! appeared first on Go Natural English.

If you know of Go Natural English, then you are undoubtedly familiar with your American English teacher, Gabby Wallace. Knowing of something or somebody means that you are familiar with a certain place, object, or person.   You could hear phrases like, “I know of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt although I've never personally been there, but I have ready many books about it.”  You might also hear someone say, “I know of your theories, but I've never actually put them into practice.”   English is a great language to use when communicating because it is rich with expressive idioms and phrases. Don't forget to take every opportunity to visit gonaturalenglish.com for helpful tips and ideas on how to improve your English conversational skills. Be sure to check out the premium course for more advanced support and practice with English.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNKox_1r5fs   Episode transcript below:   Hey there! What's up? How are you doing, lovely English learner? I want to share an awesome English tip with you that I notice a lot of people having some trouble with. So, the difference between “To Know” and “To Know Of” – To know of, that little word “of” makes a big difference. So, I see people confusing these two a lot, So, if you're not sure what the difference is, then listen on and watch on. So, “To Know” of course, is to have knowledge of something right? “I know my address.” “I know my friends very well.” “I know how to learn a language.” “To know of” is usually used with a person. Now, I said, “I know my friends well.” That means that I'm familiar with their characters and the way they behave, but if I say, “I know of” plus a person – for example “I know of” – who was I just looking at yesterday – there was a comedian, Chelsea something. Let's say “I know” – let me use someone I actually remember the name for ... “I know of Jimmy Fallon, but I don't know Jimmy Fallon.” “To know” someone means you actually have met them – you know them personally, right? “To know of someone means that you've heard their name – you may be familiar with what they do or who they are, but you're not close friends with them. So, a native speaker will use these two phrases in different ways, right? “To know of” a person is to have heard their name. “To know” a person is to be very familiar and to have met the person – to be familiar with them, to know them on a personal basis. Alright, so that's the difference, and that's why it sounds funny when I hear people saying, “Oh yeah, I know Jimmy Fallon”, right? No, you know of Jimmy Fallon, right? So, it's a small little word, but it can just help you to sound a little bit more fluent and native-like, alright? We also use “To Know of” with places, right? So, “I know of Mongolia, but I've never been there.” If I've been there, I would probably say, “Oh yeah, I know Mongolia really well”, right? Because I'm familiar with that place – I've been there. Actually I personally haven't been there so, I would say, “I know of Mongolia and its beautiful places.” I think there's a beautiful Lake Baikal there. Anyway, if you're from Mongolia, please leave your comment. Tell me about what I should know about Mongolia. I'm getting way off topic, but I want you to know the difference between “To Know” and “To Know of.” So, I hope this was helpful. I hope that you will watch English lessons with Go Natural English on gonaturalenglish.com. We have the premium course and then we have the quick English tips so, two different ways that you can learn together with me. Alright, thanks so much for watching and I'll talk to you again soon. Bye for now.     Photo Credits: geralt

How did you get to know about Go Natural English? No matter how you learned of it, it is a great place to improve your English language fluency. “Got to know” is one of those phrases that does not necessarily translate word-for-word but is often used to express how someone learned of something or somebody.   You will often hear people say, “I got to know about the American sport of baseball when I was living in the United States.” You could hear phrases such as, “I got to know Kenji very well while living and studying in Osaka, Japan.” “Got to know” is such a versatile phrase and one that you should try to use in conversational English.   Tips like this can be found at gonaturalenglish.com where Gabby Wallace provides many opportunities to learn English tips and improve your language fluency. Visit gonaturalenglish.com and pick up your free eBook just for visiting the site.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJxZNOHRfl4   Episode transcript below:   Hey! What's up? Welcome to Go Natural English. I have a quick English tip for you. The phrase is, “I got to know.” What does this mean? Well, in American English, “I got to know” means that you know something over time. So, for example, “I'm getting to know some new friends.” That's the present progressive, but I could say it in the past, “I got to know some new friends” in let's see, what city I could say, “I got to know some new friends in Bangkok.” I was recently in Bangkok for just about a week, so, I got to know some new friends. It's not correct to say, “I knew some new friends.” You have to say, “I got to know.” This is just a really common phrase, so it's really useful. I encourage you to use it and also to recognize it when you're listening to native English speakers. So, I hope that you learned something new - that you got to know more about English through this video tip, and if you'd like to learn more about how to learn English the Go Natural English way, then come to gonaturalenglish.com where you can get a free eBook just for visiting, and learn more about the premium Go Natural English course that has tons more help, support, and practice for you on your English language learning journey. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you again real soon. Bye for now.   Photo credits: imageneserik and Ramdlon The post Got to Know – Understand a Common Phrasal Verb in American English appeared first on Go Natural English.

Wait just a minute. What are these new phrases that we call idioms? Idioms are parts of speech that are generally used in certain geographic locations, and are not usually literal but are understood nonetheless. In this episode, Gabby talks about the idiom “Lesson Learned.”   Normally, you would learn a lesson from a textbook or a teacher but in this case, a lesson learned is usually something learned from life experience. For instance, if you make a mistake, or do something foolish or embarrassing, you will probably have learned not to do that particular thing again. You don't want to experience that same embarrassment a second time.  You might hear someone say, “I drove downtown during rush hour and it took me an hour to go two miles.” In this case, the lesson learned is that rush hour is a bad time to drive downtown.   Visit Go Natural English and learn more about idioms and phrases that will help you learn to sound like a native English speaker faster and better. And as always, create opportunities to talk to native English speakers. You will be glad you did.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-_2UjSb2E   Episode transcript below:   Hey there! What's up? Welcome to Go Natural English. I'm Gabby Wallace and this is my friend, Robert Foster. What up? What's up? Well, I think we have an idiom to share today. Of course. A really common, great idiom – was it something about lessons, something about learning? Yes, lesson learned. A lesson learned. A lesson learned. Is this about studying English like you learn your lessons from the books? No, it's more life lessons. Life lessons. Experience. We all have those. Yeah. I learned just the other day when I went to the bank that I have to be very careful when I'm filling out my paperwork because I made a mistake and it cost me money and it cost me time, and that was a lesson learned, that I have to be very detail-oriented and careful when I fill out paperwork. Because the way I like to fill out paperwork – I was like scribbling and oh yeah ... Scribbling and like hurry up. It'll be OK, right. Get it done. Yeah, yeah. Nope. I know one of mine, one of my many – one was, I was about 100 feet from a restaurant I was supposed to meet some friends for a restaurant in Tokyo and I didn't want to ask somebody for help because they sent me the pindrop for my phone wouldn't work. Oh no. So, I figured I'd just follow it around – well, they told me, “look over here, look over there.” I walked around for 30 minutes ... 30 minutes? ... 30 minutes to a place that was 100 feet away, and all I had to do was ask somebody for directions. So, that was my lesson learned. Just ask the question if you don't know where you are, ask, and you can cut out a lot of time. That's a good ... I missed a lot of time there. ... That's a good lesson learned. So now I ask all the time if I'm lost. Mmmmm. Well, I hope that you have a lesson learned that you should always watch Go Natural English because there's such helpful idioms and fun times. Yes, they and will help you with everything. Yes. If you want to learn more, come visit me at gonaturalenglish.com. You can grab a free eBook and you can find out about the premium course. Sound good? Sounds good. Alright. See you later. Take care. Thank you. The post A Lesson Learned – Use this Common American English Idiom and Speak Fluently like a Native appeared first on Go Natural English.

Why does it so often seem like English makes no sense? The words don't always sound like they look. English has words where the letters sometimes aren't pronounced. Words sometimes don't contain letters that are pronounced. It can be very confusing and hard to figure out.   In this episode, Gabby provides a helpful tip on the best ways to improve your English language skills. She talks about listening to your favorite music while reading the lyrics so you become familiar with the way the lyrics sound. She also explains that news website are extremely useful in learning how words are pronounced and used in context. Another excellent way to improve your English and learn pronunciation is to listen to audio books. This can be a great benefit as you travel and can listen without interruptions.   While Gabby is taking a short break from the podcasts while she works on the new full length eBook, visit Go Natural English on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and at gonaturalenglish.com to continue improving your English language fluency.     Episode transcript below:   Hello, and welcome to the Go Natural English podcast. I'm your host, your American English teacher, Gabby Wallace. In this episode I am so happy to be able to share with you an English learning tip that's simple – it's straightforward and I think it's going to be fun for you to try out. So, my tip for improving your fluency is ... it's one of the tips that I'm going to include in the Go Natural English eBook, the full length one that's coming out later this summer and I'm going to talk to you a little bit more about that but let me just tell you the tip. So, the thing is ... the problem is that English sounds really different than how you read it, right? So, some words have letters that we don't say. Some words have sounds but the letters aren't really there. So, the way English sounds can be really confusing especially if you're used to reading or writing most of the time in English, or if you learned English from a textbook, or in a class where you just kind of read a lot, or wrote a lot, or talked about English in your native language. So, if you haven't listened to a lot of English, you really have to start listening. You have to listen to English every day and that could be the Go Natural English podcast, that could be music, or it could be an audio book. I personally love listening to audio books and I think that audio books could be a really interesting and fun way to improve your listening skills in English, especially if you can listen to the book and read the book at the same time. Now, an easy way to start with this kind of learning - listening and reading at the same time – is actually going to a news site like Voice of America or Breaking News English. Those are a couple of great sites where you can listen to the news and read it at the same time. And that way you can relate what you're hearing with what you're reading. And another really fun way to do this is to find music that you love in English, so you're listening to the music and the lyrics in English as you read the lyrics. So, find a song that you really like and it could be something classic like the Beatles or the Doors, or it could be something newer like Taylor Swift is really popular right now. You'll have to find music that you like and make sure you're enjoying listening to it, and listen to the lyrics and find the lyrics online. You can just search for lyrics to find the words of the songs and read along as you listen. I promise you, this will help your English a lot because this is how I learned Spanish, and Portuguese, and some Japanese, and French just by enjoying music that I really love in those languages and reading the lyrics along with the music as I'm listening. So,

Are you familiar with the most common vowel sound in the English language? Well, you are about to meet the “schwa” sound. “What is that”, you say? Well, the “schwa” sound is that “uh” sound that is found in the unstressed syllables of words.   In this podcast, Gabby explains how the “schwa” sound is a lazy utterance that is used instead of the actual pronounced syllable in some words. Gabby provides three examples to illustrate the “schwa” sound – “pencil”, “question”, and “famous.” You will find that a great many English words have this particular sound. By listening to native English speakers, over time you will be able to not only hear the sound, but you will be able to use it yourself. This will help you sound more like a native English speaker.   To learn more about learning English, visit gonaturalenglish.com, and just by visiting you can get Gabby's free mini eBook. You can also find Gabby on Facebook and Twitter. Expand your opportunities and improve your English language fluency. Subscribe to Go Natural English today.     Episode transcript below:   Hello, and welcome to the Go Natural English podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher and Number One fluency coach. I'm so excited to bring you the tip today that will help you so much with your English fluency through pronunciation. Now, before I forget I want to remind you that you can get the free Go Natural English mini eBook just by visiting gonaturalenglish.com. Enter your name and email address and I will send you your free mini eBook to help your English fluency immediately. So, I hope to see you over there as soon as you're done listening to this quick English tip on the GO Natural English podcast right here. So, I have a really important tip that I want to share with you really quickly here. The most important sound in the English language is actually one that you probably didn't learn in your English class, and that makes me mad because it's really important. It's called the “schwa” sound but the name is not important. What is important to know is that when you have an English word that has two syllables like, “today” – one, two – “today.” Two syllables, right? “Today.” Two parts – we break the word into syllables and there's two in the word, “today.” Well, you have one syllable that is stressed and another syllable that is not stressed. So, we have a lot of words that have two or more syllables in the English language. You're always going to have one stressed syllable and another syllable that's weak could be a “schwa” sound. So, I'm going to share some examples with you and I want you to listen to see how the weak syllables all sound very much alike. And that is the “schwa” sound. It makes a kind of “uh” sound. It's a funny sound, right? “Uh” but check it out. How about the word pencil.” Do you notice how the first syllable is strong, “pen”, and the second syllable is weak and it sounds like ‘Uh?” “Pencil, pencil.” OK, how about the word “question?” The strong syllable is the first one “quest – ion.” And the second syllable kind of sounds like “uh” again. OK, how about the word “famous?” Well, the first syllable is strong again, “fam” and the second syllable “ous.” So, even though the spelling is different for all these words, right? “Pencil” – p-e-n-c-i-l. “Question” – q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n. And “famous” – f-a-m-o-u-s. Even though those spellings are so different those weak syllables – the “schwa” sound makes those weak syllable all sound alike. One more time – “pencil'”, “question”, “famous.” OK, and those three words are just three examples off the top of my head. Now, there are a lot more examples that you'd be able to hear the “schwa” ...

Have you ever thought you had enough of English learning while reading through books? Now, that's a mouthful to pronounce since in English the “ough” sound has many different pronunciations. One reason for the multitude of pronunciations is that many English words are borrowed from other languages. But sometimes, the words just aren't spoken as they are spelled.   English has many words which contain silent letters such as should, would, and could which contain the unpronounced “l.” As Gabby mentioned in this English podcast tip, Wednesday just does not sounds like it is spelled. English also contains the words “err”, “air”, and “heir” which are all spelled completely differently and yet are pronounced the same.   There are no real rules for how English words sound and how they are spelled. You just have to memorize the sounds sometimes. If you would like to learn more about this and other tips for improving your English fluency and gaining confidence in your speaking ability, then make sure you visit gonaturalenglish.com where Gabby will coach and guide you on your English language learning adventure.   Episode transcript below: Hey! How's it going? Welcome to the Go Natural English podcast – the best place to improve your fluency in the English language. In this quick English tip we're going to learn about how to improve your pronunciation in English to sound more like a native English speaker. If you don't know already, I'm your host, Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher. And you can visit gonaturalenglish.com to pick up your copy of the short and free Go Natural English eBook that will help you to improve your fluency by improving 15 common mistakes. So, getting rid of those mistakes will help you with your English fluency and that mini eBook is free. So, speaking of eBooks, we're also working on completing the full length Go Natural English eBook that will really help you with strategies, practical examples, and advice on how to improve your English fluency naturally. So, that eBook will be available in August 2015, so I'm very excited for that to come out, for that release. So, stay tuned and if you join the email list at gonaturalenglish.com – if you get your eBook you will automatically join the email list and you can find out more about the release day of the Go Natural English eBook. OK. So, without further ado, let's talk a little bit about pronunciation. One problem that I've noticed a lot of English learners having is how to pronounce words that seem to have a lot of extra letters in them that we don't say. For example, think about the word “Wednesday”, the day of the week. We write it, and you'd think that it would be said, “wed-nes-day” but that's not how we say it at all. We don't say, “wed-nes-day”, we say “wensday”. But you wouldn't know it from the way that we spell the word. Another word for example – take the word “autumn.” You would think that we would say it “ah-oo-tum-nuh” by the way that it's spelled but that's not at all how we say the word “autumn.” So, my advice for words like this and there are a lot of them in the English language is to remember that speaking English is not the same as reading English, or writing English. When you want to listen, and you want to speak English, or you want to listen to English, you want to understand what native speakers are saying, and when you want to speak and you want to sound like a native speaker, you have to remember the way that words are said. You have to remember the sound of the word and not the spelling. So, if you attempt to sound out every word from the English spelling, you will be sorry. The thing is English writing has a very loose relationship with its sounds. So, you have to learn the sounds if you want to understand English and ...

Have you ever tried to pick up a new skill and find yourself getting frustrated because you didn't get it as quickly as you thought you should? Well, can be a common occurrence in language learning because there is so much to take in.   If you are making yourself tense because you're not becoming fluent in English as fast as you would like, maybe you're trying too hard. In this podcast episode, Gabby talks about a time when she was trying to learn a new skill – scuba diving – and how she made herself relax so she could actually enjoy the experience of learning the sport. Gabby explained that learning English could bring about the same anxieties and frustrations, and the way to overcome that is to relax, take a breath, and enjoy the English language journey. You will find that you learn more, and that you learn quicker if you are able to have fun along the way.   Learning English is a new skill, and it requires the same effort as learning any other skill. Don't get nervous, or anxious, and certainly don't hyperventilate. Just relax, and learn new words or phrases while continuing to use the ones that you already use in your conversations. Gonaturalenglish.com is your go-to-place to pick up English language learning tips.   Episode transcript below:   Hello! And welcome to the Go Natural English podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher and Number One fluency coach. In today's episode I'm going to share a tip with you that comes from my own personal experience of learning a new skill, and I'm going to relate that to how you can learn the English language better and develop your fluency skills. So, this week I had the pleasure of traveling in Indonesia where I learned to scuba dive for the first time ever. So, learning to scuba dive is pretty scary if you've never done it before. It involves going under the water for a long period of time and breathing through a kind of pipe that's attached to an air tank. And when you go underwater, well, you know you're far from natural air and it's just really freaky – it's really scary because you aren't used to breathing through a kind of cable or cord. It's pretty scary to be under the water about 16 meters, and think about, “Oh my gosh, if anything goes wrong ...” well, we don't want to think about that. What we want to think about is staying calm and enjoying the experience. And that's what I would say the exact same thing about for learning the English language. It can feel really strange to go without your native language for a long time, just like it feels weird to go without regular natural air for a long time – breathing through your scuba tank. It feels weird just like speaking English might feel weird at first. But the best thing that you can do in either situation when you're becoming used to this new situation is to stay calm. You can even invent something that helps you to stay calm. For me, with scuba diving it was counting. I would count my breaths – one – two – three – inhale, and – four – five – six – exhale, and again. And if you just concentrate on doing those simple things like breathing, which when you're speaking English, if you feel like you're going to hyperventilate it might be a good idea, or you could concentrate on simple things like using the vocabulary that you already know. Don't try to pressure yourself to use words that you're not familiar with all the time. Of course it's a good idea to try out new words but if you're feeling really nervous, then just try to stay calm. Relax. Use the skills or the vocabulary that you know and enjoy the experience. I noticed that when I was scuba diving – when I was really worried about what might happen, or might I be in danger – when I was just thinking about those things I couldn't enjoy the be...

How far would you go to learn English? What types of situations will you put yourself in to make your English-learning experience better? In this podcast Gabby relates a story about her travels in Japan, and how she found herself in a situation where she had to speak Japanese because she was with someone who spoke no English at all.   One of the best things you can do if you are really serious about learning English is to speak English as much as you can, even if you could take the easier path and speak your native language. If you put yourself in those types of positions, you will be amazed at how friendly and helpful people can be. If you make the effort to communicate in English with native English speakers, they in turn will encourage you, and appreciate your effort. You will almost certainly learn new words and phrases that will help you communicate better the next time.   So, if you are serious about learning English, visit gonaturalenglish.com and let Gabby take you on an English-speaking journey. And don't be afraid to visit some of the other sites that Gabby mentioned during the podcast and check out the resources available to you.   Episode transcript below: Hey there. How're you doing? I'm Gabby Wallace, your American English teacher and host of the Go Natural English podcast. Welcome! In today's episode I'm going to share something kind of personal with you. It's actually very personal. I don't always share personal stories but I think it might be helpful and interesting for you as an English language learner so, what I'm going to share about is my travel experience in Japan and something kind of dangerous that I did. Something I wouldn't advise anyone else to do but it actually was the best thing that I've ever done for my Japanese language learning. So, I'll explain about that but before I start my story, I just want to remind you to come visit gonaturalenglish.com for more English learning materials like the premium Go Natural English course that's coming out very soon that you can join. Also you can find out about the Go Natural English eBook. There's a short free eBook available and there's a full-length eBook that's coming out in August of this year – 2015. So, I'm really excited about everything that's going on at Go Natural English. I just want to make sure that you are in the loop, meaning that you know what's going on. So, what's going on with me in Japan? I've been traveling in Japan for a few weeks. You guys know probably that I lived and worked in Japan for a little while and so I studied Japanese and I'm still learning. My Japanese is pretty basic but I've felt in the past like I didn't have enough time to practice Japanese so I tried things like lessons online, Skype lessons or online lessons using Verbling or italki, or different language exchange sites and those were all really helpful. But I still wanted more practice and what I did a couple weeks ago was I was traveling with a friend of mine – with a male friend – and we decided to hitchhike from southern Japan down to farther south in Japan and like I said, it's dangerous to hitchhike. You're standing out on the road asking for a ride from basically anyone who drives by and of course you can use your judgment. You can decide whether you want to get in, or not, and I was with a friend – a male friend – so I felt like that was a little bit safer but I know it's not really recommended so I'm not recommending that anybody hitchhikes but I just want to share that I had such a great time actually. We got our first ride with a really nice older gentleman, Kimura-san, and Kimura-san only spoke Japanese. He did not speak a word of English, nothing – absolutely - not even “hello, how are you?” So, I was put into a good position where I had to speak Japa...

Are you a non-native English speaker who is constantly worried about what other people think of your language skills? Then this podcast episode is for you. Listen as Gabby provides some useful tips and encouragement for you to feel better about yourself. Learning another language is hard. It may be easier for some people than others, but it is never a simple task.   Most people, whether they would admit it or not, struggle to grasp certain spellings, pronunciations or grammatical structures. Fortunately, the more you practice, the more you learn, and the easier it gets. Anybody who has ever persevered in the learning of a foreign language knows all too well about embarrassing moments either in speaking or writing. Learn from your mistakes. Ask your peers, or your teachers to provide constructive feedback so you can improve and move forward. The key is not to give up out of frustration or fear of what others may be thinking.   Whether you are an advanced English speaker or a novice, Go Natural English is there to help you gain fluency and have fun at the same time. Listen to Gabby often to gain keen insights into the English language.   Episode transcript below: Hello, hello, hello, awesome English learner. Welcome to the Go Natural English podcast. I'm your host, your American English teacher, Gabby Wallace. In today‘s episode I want to talk about the fear of what other people think. Are you afraid that other people might think that your English is really bad? Are you feeling embarrassed about what other people might be saying about you, or thinking about the way that you communicate in English? Well, listen to this episode because I'd like to talk with you about this very fear. Before I discuss the fear of what other people think, I want to remind you that you can get a free short eBook by visiting gonaturalenglish.com. When you sign up for the Go Natural English email list, you instantly get a free mini eBook about ways that you can fix common mistakes in the English language for learners like you. So, I hope to see you over there. Now, I was thinking – I was thinking this morning about the fear of what other people think of your English skills. Now, if you're afraid of what your peers think, let's say other people from your country who are listening to you speak English – if you're afraid of what they think, well, first of all, who cares? I know it's easy for me to say but we have to focus on the positive. You have to focus on what you are able to do, and what you hope to do instead of focusing on what other people may be thinking negatively about you. And, who knows what they're thinking? Maybe they're actually thinking, “Wow, I'm really impressed that they're trying to speak English”, right? What are some things that you can do to avoid having people think negative things about your English skills? Because I know, I know we care about what other people think even if we don't want to care, even if we want to say, “Who cares?” It's much easier said than done. So, what are some things you can do to make people think your English is good? Well, first of all, don't be shy. Sometimes when you're quiet, people think that you're quiet because your English is really bad. They think maybe you're not understanding, or maybe you don't know how to say anything in English and that's why you're quiet. Whereas I know sometimes if you're quiet, it's just because you're enjoying listening or maybe you just want to think more before you talk. That's OK, but try to talk a little bit more if you tend to be quiet. Another thing you can do is smile. Just be positive and look for ways to project a confident and friendly image. Third, and last, use the little bit of English that you know, a lot. So,

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