by Bruce Balmer | Oct 27, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, Languages, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency, Uncategorized
Today we have a guest blog entry from a recent (and very coachable) student. She has become a reasonably expert user of our system in very short order. For the rest, I’ll let her explain in her own words (bold text for emphasis is mine). I am learning French...
by Bruce Balmer | Oct 18, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency
Do you enjoy numbers? I do. I just worked out something astonishing a few days ago. Let’s play with some numbers and you can see it too. 900 hours – the expected time to get from zero to B1 in a European language for a native English speaker. 3,000 –...
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 | Oct 5, 2021 | Gamification
What is the benefit of gamification and what is the cost? Many people have been trained to take learning seriously – to suffer through it – to “tough it out”. This often leads to negative emotions which results in reduced motivation and a diminished...
by Bruce Balmer | Oct 4, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Time Efficiency, Uncategorized
We’ve been having yet another interesting experience recently with the clients we coach one on one. It turns out that it is not unusual for a person to have a knowledge of a language where they have quite a lot of fairly advanced stuff and are missing super...
