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08/18/2024

How to say very small in a bunch of adorably playful ways:
Itsy-bitsy
Teeny-weeny
Teeny tiny
Teeny mini
Itty-bitty
Eency-weensy
Tiddly-widdly
Weeny-teeny
Itty-witty
Itsy-titsy
Teensy-weensy
Eeny-weeny

02/16/2023

Друзья, буду выходить в Live в это воскресенье в 10 утра по LA и рассказывать travel hacks и тонну смешных историй о своих приключениях! Жду!

И вот собственно, что я хотела сказать в этом посте: It’s been a week since I got back to my American home. I mean, I still think home is in the heart, of course, and it has nothing to do with time, space or words, though after having hugged some of my favorite people, their kids, pets, plants, walking a few miles around the neighborhoods I used to live in, having a massive bowl of kimchi stew at my favorite Korean spa, saying hello to the hallucinogenic local flora and fauna (OMG, I completely forgot how impossibly perfect the light is in LA) and sunsets on hikes, getting to meet some of my favorite speakers and writers in person, getting a groovy living space, and all my books back suddenly feels like the concept of home I used to reference in “the real world.” No, no, I don’t want to go back to thinking that the world is what we see—rest assured, that concept is forever gone for me. Thanks to my world exploration, and in large part, to India, I have somehow stared to better grasp the essence of every inspirational, esoteric piece of literature and thought I had been collecting for years. Thanks to all the experiences I just went through, living in the moment and clearing the space without creating attachments and illusions of self have become so so much more manageable…Long story short, I’ve missed you, big weirdo, a.k.a Los Angeles 🫶

09/03/2022

Had a blast collecting these British vs American words and phrases. So much fun! You should have seen their faces when I said “I am so pooped” 😂

🇬🇧To be done in/gobsmacked/knackered - to be pooped/beat/exhausted
🇬🇧Sparkling water - Seltzer (it’s kind of New York of me to call it that)
🇬🇧Soda - sugary sparkling water

🇬🇧Rubbish bin - trash can

🇬🇧Holiday - vacation
🇬🇧Garden - backyard
🇬🇧Hen/stag party/do - bachelorette
🇬🇧Lead - leash
🇬🇧A do - party/event
🇬🇧Continue straight on - continue straight
🇬🇧Fill in - fill out
🇬🇧Aubergine - eggplant
🇬🇧Petrol - gas
🇬🇧Trousers - pants
🇬🇧Pants - underwear
🇬🇧Do you fancy it? - do you want it?
🇬🇧Cot - crib
🇬🇧Boot - trunk

06/27/2022

Happy Birthday to me! 🥳🥳🥳

My personal favorite thing about getting older is that the older I get the more mesmerizing and joyful my realm gets.

It’s been one year since I conquered all of my former anxiety outbursts, healed emotional wounds, removed all fear, opened my heart and learned to love myself, people and all life fully and unconditionally, quieted the mind, learned to breathe, find miracles and lessons in every plant, animal, human and inanimate object, sent my negative ego to the Bahamas with buckets of honey lavender ice cream (so it doesn’t come back nagging again), went on a ton of retreats, shaman adventures, learned about the wonderful world of meditation, energies, frequencies and neuroscience, removed everything I didn’t need, became a US citizen, started traveling the world, spending more time with my family, expanding my business, writing new projects, beaming effortlessly 24/7 and feeling pure light and gratitude.
By all means, life has been bringing challenges and very big tests to the table, especially the last few months, but when you have integrity, faith in
more awakening and energy switch in the world and posses tools that help you balance back into your most desired alignment under all circumstances, life just continues to bring you more magic and really good cinematic moments you want to remember for eternity. I love you, life. 🕉🤍✨

04/09/2022

Hey y’all! I’m back in Los Angeles. Currently developing a free course for everyone who’s relocating to a new English speaking environment. The course will consist of tons of useful phrases and how to pronounce them. Categories: apartment hunt, immigration lingo, job hunt, household logistics, banking lingo and more. Since I know what immigration is all about, I’ve been incorporating examples and vocabulary based on my personal experience here in the US.

It should be done in about 1,5 weeks.
Sending hugs.
I hope you guys are safe and hopeful.

Strength and honor,
KB

02/28/2022

Знак «мир во всем мире». As many of you know, I chose to stop watching/reading the news over 10 years ago. I did not know how bad the situation had been getting and lived in my own realm where I believed in universal love and humanity. On the 24th of February I woke up from multiple calls from my friends and family all over the globe to hear that my home country Ukraine had been attacked by my country of citizenship Russia while I was peacefully sleeping in my second country of citizenship USA. I sat in bed motionless with my eyes popped for over 30 minutes to process everything. Then the ache in my heart got so intense that I collapsed crying uncontrollably. Seeing this war, tanks, cruelty, two of my blood-related nations kill and hate each other, my friends and family losing their homes, lives, becoming fugitives, fleeting their hometowns cannot look any more real. Some of my married friends with kids stayed in their apartments because they refuse to be separated. They just watch explosions through their windows. I continue receiving horrifying messages from my childhood friends and colleagues sleeping on the subway, buses, random shelters, in their cars, having to use buckets to p**s, not having a place to shower. My grandmother is keeping it together in her small Ukrainian town, while I receive bloodcurdling updates from the town’s locals. She keeps telling me “I’ve lived enough. This is no big deal.” I said f**k it and flew back home to be with my family and get my grandma anyway I can. People is all that matters in life at the end of the day. Politics, misinformation, dictatorship, greed, human disintegration, fear, insanity and hatred lead to wars. There is nothing worse than war. I pray for Ukraine and for this nightmare to be over. I love you, people, and I am so f**king sorry this all has come down to this tragedy. Link in bio.

02/04/2022

Recording an audiobook version of my dystopian novel Out of Oblivion: How I Left Ob-Lom at Киностудия им.Горького with the best sound magician. An important message for all you accent-enthusiasts: reading out loud is the best accent practice, because it really filters out all of the little imperfections you may have phonetically and intonation wise. 5 hours at the studio felt like 5 minutes. I think voice acting and oral narration feel like teleportation devices to me. My favorite part was doing different shades of voice acting for all the squeaky doors in the book. If you wish to read my book (the audio one is not ready yet), it’s available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kindle. Trying to get it on the Russian market too. Hopefully they let me publish an anti Soviet piece of literature in Russia 🙈 caution: the sentences are super long and wordy. I’ve always wanted to write like Nabokov ☺️

01/26/2022

Из категории “thinking out loud”:

Ever since I mastered English to a point of native fluency I haven’t been able to stop fantasizing about gapping the bridge between Russian Speakers and America.

7 years of no physical access to Russia whatsoever was a really massive chunk of time for me to learn to really see all the linguistic and cultural nuances, lifestyle patterns and qualities of both places I’ve lived in for nearly half of my life in each.

3D stuff: My American experience has turned me into a fearless entrepreneur, in some ways a capitalist, diligent tax-payer, a bit of a workaholic, financially-conscious person, strong independent inventor and a slightly stronger version of my female self. Perhaps it has a lot to do with the fact that I moved to the US at a pretty young age and learned how to support myself fairly young, but overall I think anyone can learn a ton of beautiful, valid, kick ass life hacks from the healthy capitalistic approach the American lifestyle brews quite effortlessly as part of most of its social structures and business-operations.

Замечали такое?

О мыслях о России и моей русской персоне в контексте Америки поделюсь в другом посте…

01/04/2022

Так, ну по-моему уже пора рассказать подробно о своих ощущениях от родного города 7 лет спустя. И что стало с моим языком и восприятием. Выйду сегодня в Live в полночь по московскому времени и все все вам поведаю. Кажется, я готова.

Те, кто не был дома много лети потом приехал, как у вас все это протекало, а?

P.s. В семейных кругах меня все стали называть снежинка 😂

01/01/2022

I normally love summaries, long sentimental passages, poetry, abstractionism, everything cinematic and grandiose, though this year I feel significantly more humble, calm and at peace with every inch of my multidimensional existence. Thus, my 2021 summary will be short and sweet:

I believe it’s been the most transformational, incredibly mind-body-spirit-altering year of my life. Nothing feels the same. Everything is bigger, lighter, jollier, more love-affiliated and beautiful.

I am grateful for all of you, for your interest in what I am here to teach and share, for your kind words, commitment to my method, love towards American English and its phonetics and music! Some of you have become my dear friends all across the globe and that is priceless! Special thanks to my one and only producer

Vika, you’ve been rocking my boat and expanding my world to the most mesmerizing degree. Thank you so much for that 🤗🤗🤗

I have a lot of exciting integrations and innovations to come in 2022. Cheers to all forms of magic, the past, the present and the future! Happy 2022!! 🍾🎄✨

12/10/2021

Feeling the holidays in the air! 🦄 Decided to make a detailed breakdown of how to pronounce everything I keep in my fridge 😃 This combo pretty much summarizes my overall diet. My favorite desserts are (I guess I’ll have to make a separate video for pronouncing those): nougat (especially if it’s raw), macaroons, baklava, marzipan, cream puffs, honey lavender ice cream from Salt and Straw and Japanese mochis.

12/04/2021

A list of useful literature and other stuff to inspire you before the holidays 🤓🤓🤓
For changing your mindset and opening heart ❤️❤️❤️
Shows and videos:
1. Joe Dispenza's Show "Rewired" on Gaia (I really recommend the Gaia network in general for more spiritual development and inspiration) 2. Quantum Effect on Gaia 3. This track/video as a daily reminder: https://youtu.be/3G4kCi_ldr84.
Super Human - the invisible made visible on Apple TV5. Samadhi: Maya: the Illusion of the Self
Books: Breaking the Habit of being Yourself by Joe Dispenza, Becoming Supernatural by Joe Dispenza, Unlock your subconscious mind by Joe Dispenza
💕 For those who want a better romantic relationship to occur: The Honeymoon Effect by Bruce H.Lipton
🧙🏻‍♀️Waking up in 5D by Maureen J. St. Germain, Beyond the Flower of Life by Maureen J. St. Germain, A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
For further accent work 👅👅👅 If you still feel like you need more clarity on sounds - check out my first course - www.bezaccenta.com
🐳 Watch cartoons and imitate them - Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Fox Kids, 👨🏻‍🚀Watch Ted Talks with subtitles and try to imitate them, watch your favorite American speakers and imitate them Imitate me if you like 🙂 Take a public speaking class or Improv class to gain more performance experience.
Take an acting class to loosen up.
Meditate and repeat your daily positive affirmations. Stay curious and open minded about pronunciation - get apps that help you pronounce new words, ask native speakers to pronounce new words for you or ask me 🙂 Read outloud to synchronize and boost your letter-pattern recognition. Sing and memorize lyrics, so you can sing along! Memorize a bunch of Eminem songs and practice rapping in all forms and shapes. Listen to audiobooks read by Americans and really pay attention to how they use their intonation and word stress. Watch comedians and write down your favorite jokes to develop your own repertoire 🙂 Fall in love with the language, its culture and people - open your heart! Have fun and smile!
Love galore,
KB 👩‍🎨

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ШАГ 1: Если очень захотеть, можно в космос полететь! Банально, но факт. Если вы загорелись идеей заговорить на английском like a pro, поставленный акцент вам, безусловно, очень будет кстати. Особенно если вы актёр или часто говорите перед публикой. Вам страшно? Вам кажется у вас ничего не получится в силу возраста? Я встречала много людей, которые говорят: «Блин, ну о каком ты акценте говоришь в мои тридцать лет? Я уже старый для этого». Знаете что? Акценту все возрасты покорны. Просто надо очень захотеть. Прям так сильно, что вы готовы уделять этому час или два в день, не стесняясь косых взглядов ваших сожителей. Избавиться от акцента примерно так же сложно как заставить себя сесть на диету, обучить себя ежедневной медитации, игре на музыкальных инструментах, профессиональному танцу, и т.д. Но, согласитесь - когда вы представляете себя музыкантом мирового уровня, стройняшкой на обложке Vogue, или главной героиней нового фильма Tim Burton, и при этом знаете, что все ещё возможно, все сложности кажутся крайне преодолимыми. Правда ведь? 😇