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 | 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...
by Bruce Balmer | Dec 14, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, Listening, Reading, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency
We’d like to congratulate one of our students, Freja, for her stellar performance recently. Having finished our A1 curriculum in less than 25 hours, she took a test administered by U.S. Universities to determine the language level of students studying foreign...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 23, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Languages, Reading, Time, Time Efficiency
It’s a wonderful thing to do. Great for realising how much you are progressing. Fabulous for making your language learning feel “real”, wonderful for picking up the rhythm and flow of the language. Terrible as a way of picking up vocabulary. Why?...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 15, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Motivation, Spanish, Thai, Time
Experience. Firstly, 10 fluency units per day is fast enough (we mean 10 fluency units per day NET not gross). Fast enough to blast through a whole GCSE curriculum in less than a year. Fast enough to blast through an ‘A’ level curriculum in less than a...
