by Bruce Balmer | Mar 22, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Languages, Motivation, Time, Time Efficiency
The most important thing for you to stay motivated is a sense of progress, of “getting there`” where ever “there” may be for you. If you rely only on your perception, you will go through several patches that are quite demotivating when progress...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 25, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Thai, Time, Time Efficiency
I’m so happy about my Thai. It used to be that each review of a Thai word would take 2-3x longer than reviewing any other language I know. Today, I was having to slow down my reviews because I was under the minimum recommended exposure time per fluency unit (3...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 17, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Thai, Time, Time Efficiency, Uncategorized
Our current progress in accelerating language learning stands at this. In our lates group of reddit DuoLingo users, which we asked to try our system and compare it to their experience of DL – none of those people will take longer than 75 hours to get from zero...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 11, 2022 | German, Speaking, Statistics
The GCSE curriculum (A2) is based on a theoretical vocabulary of 2,000 words. I know a young man who just received a distinction in this speaking exam while only knowing 831 of those 2,000 words. So now completing 40% of a curriculum gets you a distinction. Nice...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 4, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Motivation, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency
It’s easy to know if you are being efficient. Zero to B1 requires not more than 3,000 fluency units (words, conjugations, grammatical constructions). We know that a reasonable expectation and the basis for many language programmes is 900 hours. So that is 3...
by Bruce Balmer | Dec 20, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Languages, Listening, Time Efficiency
Lots of people are quite good with a language but still struggle to listen well. The last time I saw this an A* language pupil came out of the listening part of her GCSE and said “I didn’t understand a word of it”. No doubt an exaggeration, but not...
