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 | Jul 19, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Thai, Time, Writing
To complete a degree programme requires you learn between 7,000 and 10,000 fluency units (words, conjugations, phrases etc). For this post I identified that I have learned 12,156 fluency units of French. To maintain my ability to use all my French in conversation, I...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 12, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Motivation, Spanish, Statistics, Thai, Time
Thai progress. By finding the right area of focus and the right exercises with which to deploy that focus – my Thai is on a sudden upward trajectory (certainly compared to its former trajectory). Progress is: 1 – Reading speed has doubled 2 – The...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 5, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Uncategorized, Writing
Do you remember how enthusiastic you were the day BEFORE you decided to learn a language? Do you remember how enthusiastic and excited you were the day you started? The sense of rapid progress. The vision of sitting in a pub or restaurant with a glass of wine and...
by Bruce Balmer | Jun 28, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Time, Uncategorized, Writing
Why do children love to play? Maybe it is because play is fun. But perhaps there is a more important purpose and so kids have evolved to like playing because those that liked it the most were the most successful at acquiring skills. Playing and a playful atmosphere...
by Bruce Balmer | Jun 14, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Conversation, French, German, Italian, Languages, Listening, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Thai, Writing
I once had the good fortune to be coached on snow-boarding (which was new to me at the time) by a super-experienced snow boarding expert. I was in a group of two, myself and a dutch guy whose principle pass time was football. We were not progressing as fast as I...
