Welcome

Aww Yeah, RealLifer!!!

This guide will provide you with critical instructions for  your first week, an overview of the course, as well a series of “ninja tips” and strategies for your  success.

We are super excited to get the ball rolling (to get started) with a few simple but powerful first  steps on your Fluent with Friends Adventure.

Our goal with this course to help you build and discover:

• An effective real world learning process that brings you short-term AND long-term results in using English and understanding native speakers (both in media and in-person)
• A fun and engaging learning experience that motivates you to take the consistent daily action you need to make consistent progress on your journey to true, lifelong fluency.

What are your goals? Please, take a moment to introduce yourself and let us know what your  goals are for this course (you may do it in the Fluency Circle once we add you there, or write us an  email at [email protected]).

This will help us get to know you better, and work with you throughout the course. We would  love to hear from you.

Getting Started

I hope that you already accessed our platform, if not - please look for an email called "Redeem your copy..." It will take you to your course. If you have any questions about it please write to us at [email protected].

<aside> 💡 Key Piece of Advice As you can see, we are presenting you with tons of new information and resources this week, so for your long-term success, we have a really important piece of advice: relax into this and have fun!

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This is a marathon, not a 100-meter sprint. You don't need stress over learning 100% of the material. Start getting familiar with the learning materials on the platform, and use them to watch Friends in a relaxed, curious, and enjoyable manner.

<aside> 💡 Do you have any questions? Find the answer in our Helpdesk!

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How to Use Friends Power Lessons

We talk about this more in-depth in Power Learning Method Instructions , but most of our students have reported the most effective way of the Power Lessons as follows:

1. WATCH the scene - usually a 1-3 minute part of the episode (with English subtitles or without subtitles).

2. READ/ Review the Power Lesson for that scene to understand all the vocabulary, expressions, jokes, and practice pronunciation. Take notes. Print this out if you want.

3. RE-WATCH the scene, paying close attention to what you didn't understand before. Constantly reference the Power Lesson. Some students will watch the same scene 5-10 times in order to understand everything!

4. TRACK your progress with our Checklist, which you can download below.