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Only English In The Classroom?

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🔔Only English in the classroom?

💆Yes, I also have international students with whom I don’t share a common language.

💆My students are never struggling with understanding, as I am willing to explain any concepts and terms in a simpler way.

❤️The greatest compliment I have received from my students is about making them learn English without being aware that they were learning anything. The struggle was nil.

✨That is the power of conversation ONLY in English!

💸Nevertheless, I make sure that the learning also happens outside the classroom by sending my students:
➡️The follow up sheet after every session.
➡️Videos made by me about a variety of topics, including grammar themes, trending news, the global economy, new English vocabulary, and essential economic concepts.
➡️Articles and books from my digital library that I have built in 20 years of teaching.

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👋Hi, I am Iulia,
#Englishcoach, #copywriter #editor #proofreader #chieffairytalerofficer #jobhelper #journalist

💆Your friendly teacher of all things under the sun: legalese, business, finance, marketing, copywriting, and creative writing.

💆We can work together to craft your personalized content, polish your English-speaking skills, and secure your place in the sun.

✨Without excellent English, there’s no path forward!

✨Check out my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@iuliahalatz6344

PS: If you want to work with me, book a preliminary free session, or ask me a question, please include a note in your connection request.

About Me

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👋Hi, I’m Iulia and I do not like to talk about myself.

❤️Here’s a little intro as I have never done that before.

💆I started my coaching business in 2012. Since then I had thousands of students and met some of the most fascinating people in the world. I am very grateful for that.

👀I am very independent and like to keep my life private.

💚I have 3 stepdaughters who sometimes call me “mother-of-dragons”🐉.

✈️Thanks to freelancing, I started remote work way before the pandemic, and I write and teach on the go. Some of my most beautiful articles were written on the beach.

🏪Only after I became city councillor did I realize that my greatest strength is public speaking and rhetoric.

💸I niched down a bit and I write fragrance and legal business news articles and SEO blogs.

✏️In 2012, during a period of significant challenges, I began writing by combining words into poems. Since then, two anthologies have published my writings.

💟Writing is my medicine in times of adversity.

Fun facts:
🎵 I took piano lessons a long time ago.
🚲I’m a big time cyclist and roller-skater⛸.
🦋I have a rare phobia, Lepidopterophobia (fear of butterflies and moths), but I like snakes 🐍.
📚I’ve always loved geometry, reading, and teaching.
🥐Even though I’m an awful cook, I still put in the time and effort to make elaborate dinners for Easter and Christmas.

Your turn! Would love to hear a fun fact about you too 😀💜.

This photo was taken in the Bucegi mountains and it is probably one of my best.

What is the difference between Tax and Duty?

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✨A question emerged at one of our legal English courses:

What is the difference between Tax and Duty?

➡️Tax is a mandatory obligation payable to the government levied on income, wealth, services, sales etc.

➡️Duty is a fee charged by the government on manufacture and import / export of goods levied on goods and financial transactions.

Duty Tax on Imports and Exports: Meaning and Examples

➡️A duty is a tax levied on certain goods, services, or other transactions. Governments commonly impose customs duties and other taxes on imports and exports. Duties, which are a form of revenue, are enforceable by law and may be imposed on commodities or financial transactions instead of individuals. The term duty also refers to the responsibilities held by an individual, especially someone in a position of power.

➡️A duty is a form of taxation levied on certain goods, services, or other transactions that are imported and exported

➡️Duty rates are a percentage determined by the total value of the goods paid for in another country.

➡️Duties provide a form of commerce protection for jobs, the economy, the environment, and other interests by controlling the influx and outflow of merchandise.

➡️A duty may also be someone’s moral or fiduciary responsibility.

➡️Governments impose taxes on individuals and companies that make or receive shipments internationally. These levies must be paid before delivery can be made. These levies are called customs or import duties. These are tariffs or taxes imposed on goods transported across international borders.

➡️Customs duty rates are a percentage determined by the total value of the goods paid for in another country. The quality, size, or weight of the product are not determining factors.1 The Harmonized Tariff System of the United States is used domestically as a reference for applicable tariffs on merchandise imported to the country.2

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Check out our video for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcjB5vBH4ec&t=3s

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Hi, I am Iulia,
#Englishcoach, #copywriter #editor #proofreader #chieffairytalerofficer #jobhelper #journalist

Your friendly teacher of all things under the sun: legalese, business, finance, marketing, copywriting, and creative writing.
We can work together to craft your personalized content, polish your English-speaking skills, and secure your place in the sun.
Without excellent English, there’s no path forward!

PS: If you want to work with me, book a preliminary free session, or ask me a question, please include a note in your connection request.

MASTER THE ART OF PRESENTATION: Start with a Villain

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Many executives start presentations about products or initiatives with a vague theme statement, often expressed with as much pith as a puff of smoke: “We have a new focus on customer satisfaction,” or “Our current strategic goals are execution and innovation.” But this approach is not only lacking but lackluster. Did Shakespeare begin Hamlet by saying “This is a play about indecision”? Of course not.

Villains in business often aren’t animate. In the mind of the consumer, even mere frustration is a recognizable evil. Or the villain could be a transaction that is incomplete or unsatisfying (anything from a faulty product to cold coffee or warm ice cream). The victim is the customer or the person whose problem you’re trying to solve. And doing so will make your company or team the hero.
This villain-victim-hero framework can be applied across many industries.

Check out the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUXak-_rQ-I&t=6s

Looking to level up your English-speaking game? Whether it’s nailing those corporate presentations, acing employment interviews, or slaying any public speaking situation, I’m here to help you shine! Let’s unlock your full potential together!

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Hi, I am Iulia,
#Englishcoach, #copywriter #editor #proofreader #chieffairytalerofficer #jobhelper #journalist

Your friendly teacher of all things under the sun: legalese, business, finance, marketing, copywriting, and creative writing.
We can work together to craft your personalized content, polish your English-speaking skills, and secure your place in the sun.
Without excellent English, there’s no path forward!

PS: If you want to work with me, book a preliminary free session, or ask me a question, please include a note in your connection request.

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Which Charles Dickens novels should I read if I am interested in social critique and commentary on the economic and social issues of the 19th century?

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations works on a number of levels: as a critique of Victorian society and as an exploration of memory and writing. However, it is perhaps more importantly a search for true identity. During the course of the novel, Pip comes to realize that his “great expectations”—social standing and wealth—are less important than loyalty and compassion. Great Expectations was also noted for its blend of humour, mystery, and tragedy. In the original ending of the work, Pip and Estella were not reunited, but Dickens was persuaded to write a happier conclusion.

Bleak House

Bleak House, novel by British author Charles Dickens, published serially in 1852–53 and in book form in 1853 and considered to be among the author’s best work. Bleak House is the story of the Jarndyce family, who wait in vain to inherit money from a disputed fortune in the settlement of the extremely long-running lawsuit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The novel is pointedly critical of England’s Court of Chancery, in which cases could drag on through decades of convoluted legal maneuvering.

Legal corruption permeates this novel like a disease, issuing in particular from the Byzantine lawsuit with which all the book’s characters have a connection. Dickens provides his customary witty dissection of the layers of Victorian society. Characters—from the wearyingly earnest to the brilliantly shallow, from the foolish and foppish to the vampiristic and dangerous—are all illuminated in the darkness of Dickens’s outraged urbane opus. In reality, it is the public sphere as a whole that is satirized in Bleak House. Everything resembles Chancery: Parliament, the provincial aristocracy, and even Christian philanthropy is caricatured as moribund and self-serving. The narrative, which is split between the third person and Esther, concerns moral disposition as much as social criticism. The novel has also been hailed as a progenitor of the genre of detective fiction, with the methodical and dogged Inspector Bucket as the first police detective hero in English literature.

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https://www.quora.com/Which-Charles-Dickens-novels-should-I-read-if-I-am-interested-in-social-critique-and-commentary-on-the-economic-and-social-issues-of-the-19th-century/answer/Iulia-Halatz

Hi, I am Iulia,
#Englishcoach, #copywriter #editor #proofreader #chieffairytalerofficer #jobhelper

We can work together to craft your personalized content!

Want to know more?
Visit my establishments:
Copywriters, AI nerds, job seekers, and passionate travelers: go to blog.seocopywriting.ro where I share stories about writing, content strategies, AI fears and benefits, job interview strategies, and carefully select the best hotel offers for YOU.
English learners, small business owners, and solopreneurs: go to my YouTube channel, where I create videos about trending news, the English grammar, the global economy, new English vocabulary, business development, and essential economic concepts.

Join my courses!
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Reflection Emirates Pride Perfumes

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My most recent Fragrantica article is about Reflection from Emirates Pride Perfumes, an estival perfume dedicated to the warmhearted bond between Father and Son.

“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco

First, I loved the story, as I believe in the strong unseen bond between parents and children, and I am proud to have shared a very strong bond with my father. We were very much alike. He used to call me Iulius, and he instilled in me a strong sense of independence and strength. Even to this day, I keep in mind my father’s wise words and I try to follow his advice: “If you don’t work hard, your luck will dwindle. And the better you work and prepare, the luckier you become.” ; “Always play fair and admit your mistakes. There is nothing to be gained by not admitting failure or defeat, you should acknowledge your shortcomings and become better”…

Reflection’s fragrance story reminded me of the feeling that even if you are in a bad place in the present, you feel warmed up by the memory of a beautiful heavenly place that puts honey on your face. Sweet and warm. Some memories act like heaters for the heart. These are the cherished memories of my time spent with my father.

https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Reflection-Emirates-Pride-Perfumes-21031.html

Enjoy!

Photos by me, taken on my cycling trips in the Bucegi mountains.

Creativity Surge Hits Everywhere

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Creativity hits everywhere! Just be prepared.
There are no typical days for writers, bloggers or poets.

Here I am (in the picture) in a forest clearing in the mountains, under attack by shepherd dogs and a flock of sheep. In the last photo, you can also see the sheep.

I have answered some question about creativity and writing on Quora!
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-describe-a-typical-day-for-a-professional-author-blogger-poet-or-other-similar-occupation/answer/Iulia-Halatz

Here is another answer: How do you complete a poem in any subject matter you are interested in?

I travel with a notebook and two phones, and I am prepared for any whiff of a good idea, feeling, vision, or image that I can incorporate into my writing. 

What fragrances do you wear when you feel under the weather?

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My latest article on Fragrantica covers my experience with positive, moderately-vibrant, and mellow-soothing fragrances that make me forget about my headaches. Fresh and ozonic scents are the best.

We talk about fragrances in connection with everything — holidays, food, campaigns, special occasions, seasons, ingredients — but what about the fragrances we use when we do not feel well or to alleviate temporary health problems?

https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Fragrances-and-Headaches-20902.html

Enjoy!!!

AI Writing or Copywriting?

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This is a poem I wrote a long time ago:

The Moon

In the evening
with my eyelashes
I kill all the events of the day
I choke perceptions and
reveries green
That could be real
Pending dream.

In the evening
with my fingers

I spin yarns
For your sweet bedlams…

Also published at Spillwords.com.
Also featured in Quora Digest.

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This is a poem written by AI (Gemini) following the prompt below:

Write a poem about the moon in the style of Emily Dickinson.

A Pearl upon the Velvet Night –
A Lady, shy, in gown of mist,
Her Carriage drawn by spectral light,
Across the wide, star-dusted tryst.

No Coachman bold, nor Steed of fire,
She pilots with a silent hand,
A Beacon, cold, with keen desire,
To pierce the secrets of the land.

The sleeping flowers, unaware,
Unfurl beneath her watchful eye,
And lovers, lost in moonlit snare,
Believe they share her secrecy.

A smile, perhaps, the clouds enfold,
A tear, a crescent, sharp and bright –
The Moon, a story yet untold,
In realms beyond the reach of sight.

What do you think?

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What are your fears about AI?

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If you don’t master it, it will master you.

Progress is everything. AI is progress. Therefore, AI will be in everything. I love progress and new things.
Nevertheless, new things create new questions..

Will bots replace you? Is using ChatGPT to compose an email ethical? Eat rocks if Google’s searchbot says so? (No.)

Despite adults’ concerns, many youngsters are already experiencing generative AI. Snapchat and Instagram have it; iPhones and Chromebooks will get it.

“More than a decade on, adults are still trying to unravel what smartphones and social media did—and do—to young people,” If anything, worry over their impact on youth and mental health has increased. Today’s parents face various tech backlash waves due to AI.

Of sure, worries are valid. Young people may benefit from AI: using it ethically and under surveillance could be the answer.

Many a time, I have asked myself this question: How will AI shape our lives? Will it also transform our mental lives? Maybe. However, the foundation of such physical realities is neither solid nor sturdy. However, AI can influence our perceptions, causing us to see what we want to see rather than what is actually in front of us. Or, the other way around. Because sometimes we see what we want to see and not what is in front of us. 
We are humans, not robots.

In my opinion, the AI can shape realities from the point of view of perceptions.
We have access to a vast amount of information. What will we do with it?

We live in the age of choices.
“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.” – Charles Eames

Next article form our AI Series is dedicated to human writing vs AI writing. Stay tuned!

https://blog.seocopywriting.ro/2018/08/29/are-you-a-rebel-writer/

Please read another AI article: Do not rely on AI!

Art – Kaoru Yamada

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