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 | 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...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 5, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Uncategorized, Writing
Do you remember how enthusiastic you were the day BEFORE you decided to learn a language? Do you remember how enthusiastic and excited you were the day you started? The sense of rapid progress. The vision of sitting in a pub or restaurant with a glass of wine and...
by Bruce Balmer | Jun 28, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Time, Uncategorized, Writing
Why do children love to play? Maybe it is because play is fun. But perhaps there is a more important purpose and so kids have evolved to like playing because those that liked it the most were the most successful at acquiring skills. Playing and a playful atmosphere...
by Bruce Balmer | Jun 14, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Writing
I once had the good fortune to be coached on snow-boarding (which was new to me at the time) by a super-experienced snow boarding expert. I was in a group of two, myself and a dutch guy whose principle pass time was football. We were not progressing as fast as I...
by Bruce Balmer | May 17, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Thai, Time, Writing
I am warming up to relearn my Thai starting in June. At present I am finishing a curriculum for myself that will have taken 50 hours to complete but which reduces the time my learning will require by 200 or more hours and more importantly make sure I am successful....
