by Bruce Balmer | Jan 25, 2022 | Accelerated Learning, Thai, Time, Time Efficiency
I’m so happy about my Thai. It used to be that each review of a Thai word would take 2-3x longer than reviewing any other language I know. Today, I was having to slow down my reviews because I was under the minimum recommended exposure time per fluency unit (3...
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 | 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 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 | 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...
