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 | Apr 26, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Time
What will achieve more – sawing wood for 20 hours with a blunt saw or 18 hours with a sharp saw? Probably the latter. From this idea flows another, that spending time sharpening the saw isn’t spending at all, it is “investing”. How can we invest time...
by Bruce Balmer | Apr 20, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Thai, Time, Writing
Getting one third faster at learning a language may sound impossible or at least very demanding and it may not sound inspiringly useful. Time to stop and think. It takes about 600 hours to go from zero to A2 level in a western European language. A2 is also GCSE level...
by Bruce Balmer | Apr 13, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Motivation, Spanish, Thai, Time
Humans are prone to exhortation, not just of others but also to themselves. “Don’t be nervous!”, “Don’t blush!”, “Be more disciplined!”. Who do we think we are talking to at these times and why do we believe that person is listening any more than a teenager is...
