Renata Starling

Fluent For Real

Education EN ↓ 56 episodes

Stop speaking “ok” English and be part of the 2% of fluent professionalsRenata

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Renata Starling

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Jan 10, 2024

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Episodes

Masterclass How to use Adverbs - 100% Practice 05.11.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” to the English that your career demands. This podcast was actually broadcast on Instagram, as one of our weekly live lessons. Every Wednesday, 9pm BRT, we host one of those! Make sure you LIKE the video, comment and subscribe to the channe...

Pronounce ING like a PRO 29.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. Did you know that the "G" is silent in some of these words? King, Angry, Hungry, Hanger, Bringing. Which ones? The topic was the sound of the "ING": - at the end of words like "Working", "King", "Young" -...

Will: not future - Learn an idiomatic use for this apparently basic verb 26.05.2020

ey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. POSCAST: Don't be fooled: “Will” is not as easy and basic as it seems. It is actually a very multifunctional verb, and in today's lesson I brought you one of my favorite ways to use it: to actually describe...

Can our Canadian friend guess these emoji expressions? 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. MC here! First of all, thank you Shelly Jean, my colleague here in Canada, who was such a sweetheart to join us in trying this challenge! I had loads of fun challenging her into guessing which popular sayi...

Responding YOUR questions - Our very first Q/A Live Lesson 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. Every Wednesday, at 9pm BRT, we are live on instagram (instagram.com/fluentforreal), and this week, for the first time, we decided to do a full Q/A video (questions and answers). It was all about YOU guys...

How to convince people at work (client, boss etc.) – in 3 easy steps 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. Do you know that situation when a client is about to make a huge mistake? Or your boss is making the wrong decision? And you need to convince them to take a different path? How to do that without being int...

'S - The quick lesson you asked me for!ive case quick lesson 13.05.2020

The " 'S " in English to demonstrate possession (ex: John's laptop) is a basic topic that is very often mixed up because of its many possibilities. And making a mistake like that in an email can cause communication breakdown 🤯. Check out this quick lesson I created based on a pop quiz I posted on  #InstagramStories  last week. And check out our Stories daily - we post a lot of cool quiz...

Fear of imperfection can block your English. 13.05.2020

Check out this short tip and don't let fear stop you!

Yes, they do. Basic mistakes in English interfere in your work. 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. ABOUT THIS VIDEO: We, MC and Renata, share some examples of real situations where English speakers mess up basic structure and the price is high. 3 topics are discussed in this live lesson. Do you make the...

94% need this lesson - How to ask questions in English PROPERLY - Complete Lesson 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If you want to boost your career and you need English to do that, you are in the right place. Take your English from “ok” intermediate to advanced with us. 94% of you can’t ask questions properly. That’s what YOU told me when I posted a poll on Instagram Stories – FOLLOW US on Social Media to interact and get daily content. This video starts with around 10 mi...

The great habit that doesn't improve your English - and what you need to d 13.05.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If your career depends on speaking excellent English, you are in the right place. Here, you will take your English from intermediate to advanced, focusing on the gamechangers, on what really makes a difference for your professional life. Come unlock your dreams! Hey! Renata here. In this video, I share what I have learned from neuroscience and my 14-year expe...

#20- How to pronounce the sound you use 15 times in 3 sentences: the short "i" 10.04.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real. If your career depends on speaking excellent English, you are in the right place. Here, you will take your English from intermediate to advanced, focusing on the gamechangers, on what really makes a difference for your professional life. Come unlock your dreams! At the end of this class, you will learn how to produce 1 NEW sound that you didn’t know your lips...

#19 - How to Report Information - Correctly! 07.04.2020

If you are new here, welcome to Fluent For Real. Here, we help you unlock your professional dreams by making English your booster, not a barrier. Go from Intermediate to Advanced, and reach your professional goals. In this video, Renata teaches you how to use Indirect Speech, the structure in English that we use to narrate previous conversations. Belive us or not, people are ALWAYS sharing previou...

#18 - The right intonation at virtual meetings - surviving the Quarantine 03.04.2020

Welcome to Fluent For Real! If your career depends on speaking excellent English, you are in the right place. Here, you will take your English from intermediate to advanced, focusing on the gamechangers, on what really makes a difference for your professional life. Come unlock your dreams! Virtual meetings are more common now because of the social isolation we are going through. And the communicat...

#17 - 26 idiomatic phrases for the workplace - Part 2 03.04.2020

You can be extremely idiomatic while organizing your ideas – clearly- in the workplace. Do you want to know how? Here are 26 phrases to use in the workplace. Not 30, not 25. 26. Welcome to Fluent For Real! If your career depends on speaking excellent English, you are in the right place. Here, you will take your English from intermediate to advanced, focusing on the gamechangers, on what really mak...

#16- Phrasal Verbs EVERYONE needs in the workplace - Live Lesson Fluent For Real 27.03.2020

Welcome to Fluent For Real! Unlock your professional and/or academic goals with us: take your English from intermediate to advanced. For real! In this video, we - MC and Renata - bring a list of vital phrasal verbs that EVERYONE needs to use in the workplace. MC shares what are really useful phrasal verbs that she sometimes neglects in her own experience working in a multinational company in Canad...

#15 - Prepositions IN, ON, AT - an intermediate approach - Fluent For Real 27.03.2020

Welcome to Fluent For Real! Unlock your professional and/or academic goals with us: take your English from intermediate to advanced. Renata here! After you guys voted for this topic, I created a full lesson on prepositions IN ON and AT, focused on: - basic position/location - idiomatic expressions - verbs followed by prepositions The video is divided by preposition and clearly marked. You can easi...

#14- How to pronounce I.T. Vocabulary - Are you sure your pronunciation is ok? - with Renata and MC 12.03.2020

Welcome to Fluent For Real, the podcast that takes your English from Intermediate to Advanced. Renata and MC Oh, the internet, oh, computers. Almost every word in the I.T. (information technology) world is in English. We read them ALL the time, and some of them are hard to pronounce (yeah, we know! That's why we're here). Others, we just don't know how to pronouce because, let's be honest, the "Po...

#13- Finally SPEAK Present Unreal: program your brain to use it! - Fluent For Real with Renata 10.03.2020

Hey, guys! Welcome to Fluent For Real, the channel that takes your English from Intermediate to Advanced. In this lesson, I, Renata, teach you how to really include "would" in your conversation and talk about hypothetical situations without mistakes. I am giving you ALL the details, step by step, plus practice and conversation exercise: http://bit.ly/FFR-PresentUnreal STOP using Simple Present or...

#12- How to pronounce "es" and improve your pronunciation - Lesson with practice - Renata and MC 06.03.2020

How do you pronounce "oranges", "offices" or "places"? This week's podcast is about a common struggle for a lot of Brazilian learners: the pronunciation of the final "es" sound after certain consonants: S, SS, CH, GE, among others. We talk about the rules for the "es" in those cases, we demonstrate the wrong way x the right way, and practice with words on the screen. Join us live every Wednesday a...

#11- Favors and services - the right way! Causative Form Live Lesson with Renata and MC - Fluent For Real 28.02.2020

Hey, everyone! If you are an intermediate speaker and want to become Fluent For Real, subscribe to our channel! We take you there! Unlock your professional goals, have a crisp and clear English with us! In this week's live lesson (We are live on Instagram every Wednesday at 9pm BRT! Tune in! www.instagram.com/fluentforreal), we talked about Causative Form, a very idiomatic structure that expresses...

#10- Fluent For Real Podcast - You can ONLY learn English from a Native Speaker. Is that so? 24.02.2020

Hey! Renata here. In this video, I brought some cool facts and my personal opinion - based on my experience and articles I have read - about a very strong belief you find online and offline: That Native Speakers are the only people who can actually teach you English, that can get you to fluency, advanced level and beautiful, impressive English. Subscribe to our channel if you want more cool conten...

#9- Learn from our (and your) mistakes! Live lesson Embarrassing mistakes speaking English-Renata and MC 21.02.2020

Oh, boy! Did we have fun during this live lesson! Last Wednesday at 9pm, we were on Instagram, as usual, and this time, the subject was: BLUNDERS! Mistakes, mix ups and a whole lot of learning! Check out some of our followers' and MC's funny situations, and the lessons that we can learn from those mistakes in order to have a better English every day. Make sure you LIKE the podcast, comment and sub...

#8- Making mistakes at work: 7 embarrassing stories and what I learned from them. 18.02.2020

Hey, guys! MC here. In this podcast, I share SOME of my most embarrassing stories, in which I made mistakes while speaking English. I was pretty much petrified in all of these moments, but there is a greater lesson to learn from situations like that! And throughout the video, I share what I learned from those harsh situations, too. Check the video out and be ready for some laughs! Make sure you LI...

#7 - Live Lesson with Renata and MC - Pronunciation of the final "ED" 13.02.2020

Hey, you guys! This week's live was about a common struggle for a lot of Brazilian learners: the pronunciation of the final "ed" sound of verbs and adjectives in English. We talk about the rules for the "ed", what we believe people TRY to do when they are pronouncing it, and some exceptions to the rule. Also, there is a lot of practice throughout the podcast, plus an exercise (below), which I expl...

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