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 | Jan 4, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Motivation, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency
It’s easy to know if you are being efficient. Zero to B1 requires not more than 3,000 fluency units (words, conjugations, grammatical constructions). We know that a reasonable expectation and the basis for many language programmes is 900 hours. So that is 3...
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 | Oct 27, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, Languages, Statistics, Time, Time Efficiency
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 –...
