by Bruce Balmer | Oct 11, 2021 | Motivation, Time, Time Efficiency
A good question that comes up fairly frequently. It sounds reasonable. Maybe it would be quite efficient. I used to be interested. My simple answer today is “bad idea”. And now for the more nuanced answer. Firstly, it depends a little on the languages...
by Bruce Balmer | Sep 6, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, Languages, Motivation, Statistics, Thai, Time
There are few things more beautiful than turning disaster into victory. As my regular readers will know, learning Thai has represented a severe challenge both to my language learning skills and my sanity. I had to take a year off, at one point and learn Italian just...
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 | Aug 23, 2021 | Motivation, Time
Learning a language is a marathon not a sprint. Any activity that must be engaged in repetitively over a long period of time benefits from habits. The most important habit I formed re language learning was consistently learning and reviewing every day FIRST THING IN...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 27, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, French, German, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Time, Writing
Congratulations to Chrissi. She recently completed a day of reviews and got 99% right. That 99% was her score across over 60 reviews, combining material from everything she has learned so far for French and Spanish and which is tested without prior revision – in...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 19, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Thai, Time, Writing
To complete a degree programme requires you learn between 7,000 and 10,000 fluency units (words, conjugations, phrases etc). For this post I identified that I have learned 12,156 fluency units of French. To maintain my ability to use all my French in conversation, I...
