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🔥 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.

🎯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/2148770947Can you explain me… suggest you to… discuss about…? If these sound correct to you, this video is your English level test. Learn the 5 common English verb mistakes that keep intermediate learners from sounding advanced.In 20 years of teaching intermediate and advanced English learners, I've heard the same verb mistakes from B1 and B2 learners all the time. Native speakers understand you, so nobody corrects you. But these small errors reveal your level instantly, and you need to fix them before you can reach C1.In this lesson, you'll learn the principle behind all five: every verb has a pattern. Knowing what a verb means isn't enough. You need to know what a verb needs after it.You'll learn:✔ explain vs "explain me": explain something to someone✔ suggest + -ing and suggest that: why "suggest you to" is wrong✔ discuss vs "discuss about"✔ remind vs remember: remind someone to, about, of✔ enjoy + -ing: why "I really enjoyed" sounds incomplete✔ how verb patterns show up in Cambridge exams (B2 First and C1 Advanced, Use of English Part 4)

📖Join My Next Cambridge Bootcamp:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/bootcamp📧Connect With Dr. JonRobert Tartaglione:https://www.influence51.com⭐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/2148770947How To Change Someone's Mind | 5 Principles of Influence (C1 English Conversation)Why do smart people with good arguments fail to persuade anyone? In this English conversation, I talk to Dr. JonRobert Tartaglione — psychologist, behavioral scientist, and founder of Influence 51 — about the science of persuasion and what actually changes the way people think, decide, and behave.JonRobert earned his PhD in psychology at the University of Cambridge and now advises leaders at companies like McDonald's, Visa, and Nintendo. In this interview, he walks us through his Five Principles of Influence: why the human brain is not a computer, why loss aversion shapes every decision, how social norms drive behavior change, how values filter what people accept, why pushing harder makes people push back, and how framing and metaphors change the outcome of a conversation without changing a single fact.This is an unscripted, natural conversation between native and near-native speakers — ideal listening practice for B2 and C1 learners who want to understand real English at natural speed, and who want to communicate with more impact.What you'll learn in this episode:• Why humans are rationalizing creatures, not rational creatures• Why you should connect emotionally before you present your data• Loss aversion and the coin flip experiment• Why social rejection activates the same brain regions as physical pain• How social proof and social norms drive behavior change• Psychological reactance: why "Do not touch the art" makes you want to touch the art• Conversational receptiveness and self-generated persuasion• Message framing: 80% fat-free vs 20% fat• How metaphors change the way people solve problems

📧Connect with Kurt:https://kurtuhlir.com/⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago📖Join the waitlist for my next Cambridge B2 and C1 exams prep group:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/cambridge-exam-waitlist📣Join The Fluency Hub Community:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community💻Book a 1.1 Call With Me:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/fluency-discovery-call📓Get This FREE GUIDE:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947Most advice about English for work comes from teachers. This one comes from the other side of the table.Kurt Uhlir is a Chief Marketing Officer who has hired and led teams across six continents. In this conversation he explains what he actually looks for in candidates, why he often prefers working with people who speak English as a second language, and why most people who want a promotion are asking for the wrong thing.If you work in an international company — or you want to — this is the conversation to listen to twice.ABOUT KURT UHLIRKurt is a Chief Marketing Officer who has built and led teams across six continents. He holds more than 20 patents, and technologies he helped create are used every day by millions of people at companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Garmin. He is currently CMO at ez Home Search. He has been featured in USA Today, TechCrunch, NBC, and Wired — and he is a certified alligator handler. More on that in the interview.

⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago📖Join the waitlist for my next Cambridge B2 and C1 exams prep group:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/cambridge-exam-waitlist📣Join The Fluency Hub Community:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community💻Book a 1.1 Call With Me:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/fluency-discovery-call📓Get This FREE GUIDE:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947You understand 90% of my videos without subtitles. So what's your level? Can you call yourself B2?It's the most common question I get on this channel, and today I'm answering it properly — including the uncomfortable part, which is about me, not about you.If you're working your way from B1 to C1 English and you've never been sure where you actually stand, this episode will change how you think about the question. Because the honest answer isn't a letter. It's something more useful than that.In this episode:→ Why understanding my videos is real progress but is NOT a measurement of your level → What the CEFR actually says about B2 listening (and why every descriptor has a condition attached) → Reception vs production — why understanding is the cheapest skill you own, and why it's been flattering you for years → Why you don't have just level, but something else — and why that's far more useful → My verdict: when you're allowed to claim a level, and when you're not

⭐Download The B2 Edge App: https://studio.com/thiago📖Join the waitlist for my next Cambridge B2 and C1 exams prep group:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/cambridge-exam-waitlist📣Join The Fluency Hub Community:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/community💻Book a 1.1 Call With Me:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/fluency-discovery-call📓Get This FREE GUIDE:https://www.englishwiththiago.com/pl/2148770947Most English learners reach intermediate level and stay there. Not for weeks. Not for months. For years.Not because they're not trying. Not because they're not talented. Because nobody has ever shown them clearly what actually needs to change — and what the gap between intermediate and advanced English really looks like from the inside.In this video, I'll show you exactly what separates intermediate from advanced English — and what you need to start doing differently if you want to stop being stuck where you are.You'll learn:1) Why moving from intermediate to advanced is not about learning more words or more grammar rules — it's something else entirely2) The vocabulary shift that happens at advanced level — and why it's not what most learners expect3) The difference between a mistake and a slip — and why understanding this distinction will change how you think about your own errors forever4) Why C1 speakers don't just know more English — they can do more with it, in more situations, with less effort5) The repertoire concept — what it means for your English and why expanding it is the real path to advanced fluency6) A real example from my own professional life that shows exactly what advanced English looks like when it matters