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...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 8, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, Reading, Time, Time Efficiency
You met Freja in a recent post, a student studying French with Total Fluency. Here is a recent translation by Freja which will give you an idea of her current ability… Je m’appelle Jessica Je m’appelle Jessica. Je suis une fille, je suis française et...
by Bruce Balmer | Nov 2, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Thai
I thought I would post the good news. I am now scoring 94-96% retention on my Thai reviews. The words are sticking (at last), the tones are sticking (at last). I’m expanding my vocabulary by 10 words per day but having done that successfully for about 3 months...
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...
