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 | Sep 19, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Time
We all like a compliment. I had occasion to explain in a forum something of what we do including the speed at which a Total Fluency student make progress as compared to students in more conventional study programmes (150 hours to B1 as opposed to the traditional 900...
by Bruce Balmer | Sep 13, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Time
It is now possible for those of you who have used our app for more than two months and who have a Total Fluency tutor – to “bring forward” reviews from the next seven days and review them today. Why might you do this? You have extra free time one day...
by Bruce Balmer | Sep 6, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, Languages, Motivation, Statistics, Thai, Time
There are few things more beautiful than turning disaster into victory. As my regular readers will know, learning Thai has represented a severe challenge both to my language learning skills and my sanity. I had to take a year off, at one point and learn Italian just...
by Bruce Balmer | Sep 1, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Money, Motivation, Time
Let’s say a student is headed for straight “B” grades for three “A” levels. What would it cost to raise their performance to straight “A” grades? I’d estimate, with our approach about £1,200. Worth it? I suppose it...
