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I've attended ICAN Club for over a year and it has fulfilled my dream of surrounding myself with smart, educated and inspiring people in an English speaking environment. Thanks to the efforts of Valentina, our organizer, the Club is like a family with people feeling comfortable to share the stories of their lives, especially at tea time with treats, finding support and advice. The Club's activities are always exciting and engaging, including meetings with native speakers and adventurous trips across the country and abroad. There's no better place in Minsk, Belarus, to speak English on a weekly basis on subjects that  personally matter to you.

I am the new member of the club. I have attended this club last week and understood how much I missed! It`s so interesting to speak in English, participate in different methods of teaching, practice your communicative skills, have fun and pleasure, new acquaintances.

The main idea of ICAN club is to create an opportunity for people to practice speaking and communicating in English.  It helps to overcome the barrier when English learners can understand everything, but have difficulties in speaking. It is not easy to start to speak English fluently. But if you practice it day by day, improvement will come.
The atmosphere in the Club is very friendly and warm. For me, it became not only the place where I practice English. I really enjoy our classes and relax after a working day. And there is no doubt that learning is more effective when people are relaxed and enjoying it. I`m happy that I discovered such a nice place to study and enjoy English at the same time.

Valentina has never been my tutor or my teacher. To tell the truth, it was my 1st time yesterday evening I dug my heels in at Val's speaking club.

Nevertheless, she has been one of my all-time heroes, since I first saw her years ago at the conference on teaching at Иняз. We were already colleagues and I remember my excitement at listening to her speech. It was all about making students’ classes more challenging and entertaining. Val made my day then.

These days I am an experienced English teacher and an entrepreneur, I am currently running my own educational projects, but I always thrive on new ideas to learn more and do more. And yes, yesterday I was heartily welcomed to her class.

Valentina is still truly inspiring, immensely enthusiastic and relentlessly cheerful – this is in her DNA, which comes from within and spreads rapidly throughout her club members. Be sure to sense the friendly atmosphere, be involved in PechaKucha presentation format, speak openly and make conversation with the people around the table, get and do homework.

I wish I’d had such an English teacher while studying at university. But this is my story. Why do You have to regret? You don’t have to be a teacher or study at linguistic university to take a chance and be a part of ICAN. Go for it now.

I can. And you can too! :)

Best wishes,
Yulia
ELT Educator and Methodology Writer