by Bruce Balmer | Sep 1, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Money, Motivation, Time
Let’s say a student is headed for straight “B” grades for three “A” levels. What would it cost to raise their performance to straight “A” grades? I’d estimate, with our approach about £1,200. Worth it? I suppose it...
by Bruce Balmer | May 7, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Money, Motivation, Spanish, Statistics, Thai, Time, Uncategorized
I just had another conversation with someone who finds it impossible to understand what we are selling. How peculiar. Peculiar because our value proposition is incredibly simple. Traditional language teaching technique work for most hard working students. Those...
by Bruce Balmer | May 4, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, Listening, Money, Motivation, Reading, Speaking, Thai, Time, Writing
The short version: – I’ve been trying to learn Thai for 3 years. I’ve started back at the beginning 3 times. My total bill in money exceeds £3,000 and my total bill in time exceeds 500 hours. And sure I can hold a conversation but I don’t...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 11, 2021 | Money, Motivation, Statistics, Time
What does it matter if a person wants to take their time to learn a language, to have fun with it, to pass the time with it. In theory there is nothing wrong with that idea. In practice it is a dishonest idea. Let’s say you asked about the “brow of the...
by Bruce Balmer | Jan 4, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Money, Motivation, Time
You don’t need to join a class to successfully learn a language though you may want to do so for social reasons. There is so much information on the web you could easily use and it’s free. Or you could do what I did when I learned French, I just bought...
by Bruce Balmer | Dec 10, 2020 | Italian, Money, Motivation, Statistics, Time
If you wish to maintain your fluency once achieved and you are human then “the brow of the hill” is an extremely important concept. The brow of the hill is where maintaining the language you have learned is more fun than it is work. People say it is hard...