English with Thiago

🔥 BLACK NOVEMBER: the B2 Edge app is 20% off on quarterly and annual plans until November 30. Lock in your price before it goes up in December, and keep it for as long as you stay subscribed. The C1 Edge curriculum is coming to the app before the end of the year.👉 https://studio.com/thiago/b2edge?c=v7HOdaBtI went from B1 to C2 in English without ever living abroad. I started at 15, with zero English, in a public school in Brazil, and today I hold the Cambridge C1 and C2 certificates and have been teaching English for 20 years.In this video, I share the 3 turning points that took me from B1 to B2, from B2 to C1, and from C1 to C2. What I stopped doing at each level, what I started doing instead, and how you can make the same switch from wherever you are right now.You'll learn:• Why going from B1 to B2 is a fluency jump, not a knowledge jump• What a "solid B2" really is, and the difference between basic mistakes and smart mistakes• How to get 4–5 hours of real speaking practice a week, without a job in English• What actually changes at C1• Why advanced learners get stuck on autopilot, and what C2 vocabulary looks like• A one-week challenge for B1, B2 and C1 learners📣Speak English with Real People:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community📓Get My Free Vocabulary Guide:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947

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📣Speak English with Real People:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community📓Get My Free Vocabulary Guide:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947Want to talk about AI at work in English and sound like you actually use it? In this interview, Alcir Candido Goncalves, a Brazilian who has spent almost a decade at Meta in New York, shares the English you need for AI meetings, global teams and working with people from all over the world. It's for B2 learners aiming for C1 and for professionals who use English at work.Alcir started at a public university in Brazil, worked at TIM, then moved to Meta in New York, where he helped bring WhatsApp Business to the United States. Today he works on go-to-market for AI products that haven't launched yet. He's not an engineer, but he builds his own multi-agent systems.In this conversation, you'll learn:✅ How to say big numbers like a native speaker in meetings✅ Why Brazilians lose people at work by over-explaining, and how to be more direct✅ 5 words every AI meeting runs on✅ How to use AI to practise for a real meeting or job interview✅ How to check whether what AI tells you is correct✅ Why AI makes you faster, but not right, and what that means for your career

⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago📣Speak English with Real People:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community📓Get My Free Vocabulary Guide:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947Why is your English stuck at B2, even when you use it at work every day? In this video, I break down the three traps that keep upper-intermediate learners from reaching C1 (advanced) English, and what it actually takes to get there.You’ll see a real essay introduction from one of my Cambridge C1 Advanced students, rewritten from B2 to C1 level, and why her “speaking problem” was really another deeper problem. I also share, for the first time on this channel, how I prepared for my Cambridge C1 and C2 exams, and why I didn’t reach advanced English alone.In this video:1) Why B2 English feels “good enough,” and how that stops your progress2) How a problem you notice in one skill can actually come from another3) B2 vs. C1 writing: one idea per sentence, natural collocations, clear connectors4) Fossilisation: why your B2 mistakes sound right to you5) Self-study vs. guided preparation: what each can do for your EnglishWork ethic and skin in the game: what learners who reach C1 and C2 do differently6) A one-week writing challenge to find your real gap

🎯Join My Next Cambridge Bootcamp:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/bootcamp⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago📣Speak English with Real People:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community📓Get My Free Vocabulary Guide:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947Is your English really B2? Take a 15-question, Cambridge-style Use of English test with me, score yourself out of 18, and find out what’s keeping you from C1.In this lesson, you’ll work through all four parts of the Cambridge Use of English paper, the same format used in B2 First and C1 Advanced:1) Part 1, multiple-choice cloze2) Part 2, open cloze3) Part 3, word formation4) Part 4, key word transformationAt the end, you’ll get score bands that show whether you’re a fragile B2, a solid B2 or ready to push for C1, plus a diagnosis of the gap that’s costing you the most points.✍️ Your challenge: write one true sentence about your English journey using a phrase from today’s lesson, and post it in the comments with your score.

⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago🎯Join My Next Cambridge Bootcamp:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/bootcamp📣Speak English with Real People:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community📓Get My Free Vocabulary Guide:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947You can understand almost everything — films without subtitles, podcasts at normal speed, a fast meeting. Then someone asks you a question, and what comes out of your mouth is nothing like what was in your head.That gap between understanding English and producing English is the intermediate plateau, and more input will not fix it. In 20 years of teaching I've watched hundreds of learners try, and it has never worked once.Musicians solved this problem a long time ago. In this video I break down the four principles of musical practice that transfer directly to spoken English fluency — the same four I used to build my own English from scratch.If you've been consuming English for years and your speaking hasn't moved, principle four is probably why.