40-page Handbook • “Globally sought-after books...” – The New Indian Express. • “Internationally popular” – THE TIMES OF INDIA. • “For learners worldwide...” – The New Indian Express. Ask for it – NOW! Globally respected! FREE! Fluentzy: air ev N K . f ro ncy B y P ther of flue fa s. “The opment” Expres l n e a v i d de w In – Ne THE ENGLISH FLUENCY-BUILDING ENCYCLOPEDIA • “World’s first...” – THE TIMES OF INDIA. •• • World’s 1st & most time-honoured system of fluency building. • A set of 20 great self-study books: By the TM world authority, Prof. Kev Nair. • Ideal for use as a self-study course: The Fluency Development Course. RAVE REVIEWS “SPEAKER’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FLUENCY TOOLS...” – THE HINDU. In 3 months! • •Advertorial • TM For total Self-study If you know English very well, you may be able to complete making use of these books as a self-study course in 3 months. • • “Quite impressive.” – THE HINDU. “FLUENTZY’S PHENOMENAL SUCCESS” – THE HINDU. Roget & Nair “Many people consider the course designed by Nair to be the greatest development in the history of the English language since 1852 when Peter Mark Roget published A Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.” – The New Indian Express In a class by itself! How to tame English fluency! “WHY IS it that most of those who even have a master’s degree in English find it difficult to express their thoughts, ideas and feelings in fluent spoken English, though they do it without much difficulty in written English? “Prof. Kev Nair, an eminent scholar of international repute and a renowned English language lexicographer, goes into this question in depth and comes up with clear answers in Fluentzy, a series of twenty definitive books on the subject authored by him. These 20 prior planning. Or advance preparation. self-study books, as a set, constitute a dedicated system of fluency Understand this: Every real-life speech situation brings up new twists and turns building.” – The New Sunday Express. “And how to transform yourself... from a h-e-s-i-t-a-n-t speaker... into a fluent debater – thro’ these 3 telling truths.” W HAT IS IT that prevents most educated people who write good English from speaking it quite fluently? The culprit is a wrong impression: They’re under the wrong impression that the right way to speak English is to speak it the way they write an essay or report. And whenever they start speaking in English, they try to speak the way they write. That is, they try to force written English thro’ the medium of speech. Like trying to force bricks thro’ a water pipe. Is there any wonder they stumble, stammer & falter? – THE HINDU. World leader “This course... has become the international standard against which advanced courses in English speech production are compared everywhere.” – Genl. Knowledge Today. No teacher! No classroom! The liberating truth “... specially designed, so that the learner can achieve maximum fluency without any teacher’s mediation” – Hindustan Times. Truly unique “‘Fluentzy’... one of its kind in the world.” – THE TIMES OF INDIA. Result-oriented “A no-nonsense course... A downto-earth approach... Highly effective... Unique...” – Com- petition Success Review. Pirated abroad! “A Russian Internet Service Provider... has closed two websites that were engaged in selling pirated versions of the fluent English self-study books... in the ‘Fluentzy’ series by Prof. Kev Nair... charging an exorbitant premium...” – THE HINDU. Prof. Kev Nair World authority “Perhaps more innovative in method than Roget and more modern in approach than Fowler, Prof. Kev Nair is... one of the foremost Indian scholars who wield great influence on the thinking of the English-educated people around the world.” – Genl. Knowledge Today. Globally respected “His students are spread across 35 countries; highly educated, well-placed professionals turn to him for help; students aspiring for superior jobs find his experience and guidance of great worth.” – The New Indian Express So here’s the 1st truth: Spoken English is not written English said aloud. And nobody can speak English fluently if they try to speak the way they write. Nobody. So, to speak English fluently, you need a set of tools that are wholly different from the set of tools that help you write English. Secret of the silver-tongued So the very first thing you should do is this: Acquire fluency-building knowledge & skills. And whenever you speak, speak only according to fluency-building knowledge & skills — and not according to your written English knowledge & skills. And the great news is, this first step is also the last step: Master fluency units and specialized fluency strategies — and whenever you start speaking in English, your word clusters start flowing out . Readily. And easily. Instead of just remain- ing on the tip of your tongue. This is the 2nd truth. 7 wrong methods Self-study: Smart people’s way to pro-like fluency WHAT IS TRUE FLUENCY? You can’t call yourself fluent just because you can speak one-line English here and there, can you? You’re truly fluent only when you can speak continuously. At length. By giving supporting details, reasons, justifications, and illustrative examples of situations and events. Easily, clearly, confidently. Without unwanted hesitations. That too, in newer & newer situations. Even in situations you’ve had no training in. Spontaneously. Without There’s only one way to master the fluencyskill: Self-directed self-study. That is the only way. No teacher-dependent method can help. You should do independent study — outside classrooms. Yes, outside. Teach yourself. Without a teacher. Yes. The fluency skill can only be mastered directly. Thro’ self-effort. Without a teacher coming between you and the learning process. Only then will the fluency skill become your skill. And this is the 3rd truth. The Fluentzy system makes this selfstudy quite easy. Easier than you think. ✔ Handbook — FREE! Act NOW! And ask for our 40-page Fluency Handbook: How to pick up fluency in English thro’ self-study... And find out how to go about achieving the highest level of fluency in English. Why every home needs Fluentzy • WISE MOVE. Everyone for whom English is a second language is a victim of the “cart-before-the-horse” problem! Yes, everyone. And so, every home must have a set of the Fluentzy series! Yes, every home. Every language has two sides: The spoken side and the written side. The right order of learning these two sides is this: Learn the spoken side first. And then you can use the knowledge of the spoken side as a basis for learning the written side. That’s how we all learnt our mother tongue. But what happened when you learnt English? Classrooms taught you the wrong side first — the written side. And then asked you to use the knowledge of this ‘wrong’ side to produce the ‘right’ (spoken) side. Is there any wonder true fluency has been eluding even those who have a master’s? of the communicative pressures under which you speak in a real-life situation. They’re wholly different from the kinds of Why classrooms can’t make you fluent learning pressures or work-production pressures in a classroom. In a classroom, what’s your aim? To produce work for display to an evaluator. Right? To produce examples of language. And not to produce language as part of an Why? First of all, the focus of classroom work and the focus of fluency work are not the same, but different. Second, just think Treasured by millions! “Fluentzy... The finest contribution English language has ever received from outside an English-speaking country.” – The New Indian Express. Earliest pioneer “Think English, Speak English — Fluentzy!” “He had been researching since 1971, and the results... led him to new discoveries... ” — and throws up new speech-composition problems. And fluency is your ability to navigate these twists and turns. And to keep up a steady flow of speech. So the fluency skill is a unique skill. The only one of its kind... And so you can’t learn it in the same way as you learn other skills — computer skills, or mathematics or swimming. Fluency skill needs a different approach. A completely different approach. Mind you, conventional methods are only language-learning tools. And not fluencybuilding tools. And so they’re not capable of helping you master fluency units and fluency strategies. This may sound incredible at first. But this is a fact. So understand this: Classroom training cannot make you fluent in speech. • Nor can e-learning. • Nor audio cassettes/CDs. • Nor videos. • Nor language laboratories. • Nor ready-made sentences. • Nor learning done thro’ your mother tongue. Of course, some of these methods may help you utter one-line English here and there: One-line statements. One-line questions. One-line replies. One-line instructions. In a few stereotyped situations. But mind you, true fluency is something else. – ongoing communicative process. In a classroom, your aim is to demonstrate your knowledge of theoretical usage. And not to use language to communicate. But in a real-life situation, that won’t do. Here you have to produce language as part of an ongoing communicative process. And communicate. Talk to people as one individual to another. By organizing your language into ‘here-and-now communication units’. By putting your language to actual use. Real-time use. Exploratorily. Manipulatively. By going on meeting the everfluctuating communicative needs. By bending and twisting and manipulating and juggling with language units. By dealing with the real-life communicative pressures. On the spot. Only specialized fluency work can give you this ability. Fluency work outside classrooms. THE TIMES OF INDIA. How to strengthen your fluency – THE HINDU. Trusted teacher “Kev Nair has... reached out to thousands – judicial officers, professionals, top executives, scholars – who need that comfort and ease in speech with his specialised fluency techniques.” E – The New Indian Express. VERY SKILL can be strengthened by practising the ‘corresponding acts’. Walking by walking. Running by running. From this, many people jump to conclusions and wonder: Can’t the skill of spontaneous speech also be strengthened similarly — thro’ speech practice? Pioneer fluency lexicographer Achieve verbal balance & cross the fluency threshold “Prof. Kev Nair is regarded the world over as the father of fluency lexicography... Fluency lexicography came into existence as a separate branch of dictionary writing with the publication of Prof. Nair’s Dictionary of Active Fluency Combinations in 1986.” Mind you, there’s a flaw in the above line of thinking. It forgets a basic truth: You’ll not be able to practise a skill till the germ of that skill has taken root in you. And till you’ve crossed that skill’s threshold — the level at which that skill starts to happen. For example, you won’t be able to strengthen walking by walking till you’ve crossed the walking threshold. You won’t be able to practice the skill of cycling till you’ve crossed the cycling threshold. In the same way, you won’t be able to strengthen your skill of speaking thro’ speech practice — till you’ve crossed the fluency threshold: That is, till you can carry on the process of speaking steadily (though slowly) — to a minimal extent. By using fluency-maintaining strategies and holding your own against fluency-blocking factors — factors that keep trying to throw you, and the flow of your speech, off balance. – Competition Success Review. Who for? “...meant for those who can write good English, but who have difficulty speaking it fluently.” – HINDU Business Line. FLUENCY WEBSITE www.fluentzy.com Schuma “If it has been your dream to speak English smoothly, without hesitation, check out www.fluentzy.com ” Beware of False Fluency! Just think! Suppose that a few people who are not fluent in English get together and start doing some kind of speech practice — in order to achieve fluency in English... What kind of English will they be able to do the speech practice in? Only in broken English. Right? (Because they can’t speak fluent English!). And suppose they carry on Classic! “Fluentzy, the classic fluency development solution” – THE HINDU. with this kind of speech practice thro’ broken English for 3 months or more... Won’t broken English become their habit? Rather than fluent English? Teacher can help only with accuracy — Not fluency... Mind you, even a teacher’s presence cannot improve the situation. No, it can’t. Why? Because a teacher can notice and correct only ‘externally noticeable’ mistakes: Mistakes of grammar, usage, vocabulary, etc. But remember this: We’re speaking about people who know English — very well or reasonably well. Don’t they already have a good command of grammar and usage? And don’t they have a reasonable (or even a wide) vocabulary? Even then, don’t most of them find it hard to be truly fluent? So ‘externally noticeable’ mistakes are not the real reason that blocks fluency. The real reason is this: Internal speech processing difficulties. And internal speech composition problems. Mistakes, difficulties and problems that happen when your mind tries to compose speech before its delivery. When your mind tries to manipulate the semantic and syntactic resources of the English language — to process information. And to formulate speech out of that information. And to bring it up for delivery. Mind you, a teacher or anyone else will not be able to notice these internal mistakes and problems. Or the pre-delivery process. No, they can’t, because these things happen inside your mind. You are the only person who’ll be able to be aware of them — and to cope with them on the spot. That’s why if you want to achieve true fluency, you must become a teacher to yourself. Yes, you must. Fluency Nucleus: The Inexhaustible fluency source Mind you, true fluency is not the speed of delivery of speech. No, it isn’t. It’s really the flow with which the things you want to deliver come out of your heart and mind — in ‘readily deliverable’ speech units. And true fluent English is not a terrible struggle: A sentence-based speech-production struggle. No, it isn’t. It’s something wholly different. Something whose mark is actually effortlessness. Fluent English is the ready flow of speech units: A steady stream of word clusters flowing out easily... From something called the fluency nucleus. And what the Fluentzy system does is this: To help you do things, so the fluency nucleus starts growing inside you. Once that happens, you’re on your way to achieving higher and higher levels of fluency. And from then on, even group speech practice and audio-video sessions can prove useful. But mind you, only from then on — and not till then. Now, how do the Fluentzy books help you to be fluent? “WALKING TALL” 1). These self-study books tell you how to compose your speech and speak at the same time. On your feet. Against the pressure of time. 2). They help you to break free of h-e-s-i-t-a-t-i-o-n-s. And to deal with on-the-spot speech-composition difficulties. And speech-processing difficulties. And to speak on... In free flowing English. About your ideas, thoughts & feelings. 3). They help you to achieve the ability to say something appropriate in all the everyday situations you face in your social and career life, so that you won’t be at a loss for words in these situations. 4). They help you to achieve adequate control over fluency-producing vocabulary and other resources, so you can manipulate them and juggle with them at will — orally. And speak English spontaneously. Describe, explain or narrate things. Without prior planning. Or preparation. Whether you’re having a chat or a serious conversation. Or a public discussion. Or making a presentation. Or speaking at a job interview — or media interview. Or negotiating. Or arguing. Or making a speech in public. 5). They help you to train your organs of speech. And to get those organs to work like those of a native speaker of English. And to help you Buyers from 46 countries • Learners from 46 countries have bought these self-study books so far: From USA, UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Latin America, SE Asia, Middle East... Judges, IAS/IPS officers • Learners from India include: Judicial Officers, Senior Diplomats, IAS/IFS/IPS/IRS Officers, Scientists, Professors, Sr. Managers, Commissioned Officers, Advocates, Doctors, Engineers, IT Professionals, Journalists, MBA/MCA/ TSE/Civil Service candidates. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari. • They include District & Sessions Judges, Ambassadors, a High Commissioner, a Consul General, Commissioners of Income Tax, IGs of Police & Registration, General Managers & top executives of public & private undertakings (including multi-nationals)... an Archbishop... a Test Cricketer... and legislators, including a Chief Minister. speak on. In effortless English. Without stumbling over English sounds. Or their sequences. “NO... NOT JUST ANOTHER CRASH COURSE...” – THE HINDU. What it takes to be truly articulate • “...definitive books on the subject” – The New Sunday Express. If you’re deeply and seriously interested in achieving true fluency, there are certain things you’ll have to do. On your own. Sooner or later. There’s no alternative. None at all. And the 20 Fluentzy titles tell you what these things are. And how to go about doing them. Remember this: They’re the world’s 1st source of this unique knowledge. Yes, 1st. • Idea units & Fluency. Nothing that you do by Fluency in Asking Ques• Speech Generation & following this system tions. • Fluency & MoFlow Production. • goes waste. And every ment-to-Moment SpeechTeaching your Tongue little that you do adds to production. • Fluency in & Speech Rhythm. • Functional English (2 your fluency. 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