Toastmasters International supports a wide range of skills and projects. It is not only about
public speaking. It is not only about leadership. Once you join, your fellow club members may support you in everything you do to help yourself and others achieve excellence!
Katarzyna Stelmach, this year’s Polish Champion of Public Speaking
A great example of that! Read about her journey towards becoming an author!
Q1: Tell us briefly about your book.
We have books to learn English, German, French or any other existing language. But what about manual helping learning languages in general? I felt that such a book was missing, and that’s why I’ve decided to help people explore a wide range of existing methods to improve their language skills.
Knowledge from psychology, neurobiology, plus stories of my clients I work with as a language trainer for 7 years now. What's more, I wanted to give readers the opportunity to use my book to plan their learning process. That’s why every chapter finishes with coaching questions that are ready-to-use templates to plan particular elements of the learning experience, which makes my book as theoretical as a practical book to learn any foreign language. I also ask a reader a lot about their motivation, fears and previous experience of learning a language. All of it taken together is a „From stemming to speaking” (Polish title: „Od dukadnia do gadania”)
read more on: https://toastmastersd108.org/tm-stars-katarzyna-stelmach/
Q2: How did you get an idea for it?
In Poland, we have famous fitness trainers that write books and help people become more sportive, lose weight or just feel better in their body. Theory plus practice. Useful tool. Why don’t we have such support when it comes to learning a language. It’s easy to find a training plan for our body, but our mind and language skills don’t deserve being treated in the same way? Another stimulus was questions from my clients to finally have in one place all my advice I give them and things I believe in.
My approach to teaching and learning is very different from the one we can meet in public schools. This fresh point of view I have is always appreciated by my clients. I decided it’s time to share these pieces of information with a bigger audience and support more people to overcome their barriers, fear and provide a tool I was wishing to have when I was struggling to learn languages and gain confidence in using them.
read more on: https://toastmastersd108.org/tm-stars-katarzyna-stelmach/
