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 7, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, Languages, Motivation, Reading, Statistics, Thai, Time, Uncategorized
I must have read at least 100,000 words in Thai over the last few years And yet my reading speed has remained terrible. Very interesting that. Shouldn’t be possible. And when I say “terrible” let me be more specific – about 30 words per minute....
by Bruce Balmer | May 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
Headline Translation: Finally, I have found a method to learn Thai efficiently. How incredibly exciting. Sometimes when I can’t solve a problem elegantly and quickly I just use persistence to out endure the problem. I am now absolutely confident that I can learn...
by Bruce Balmer | May 7, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, French, German, Italian, Languages, Money, Motivation, Spanish, Statistics, Thai, Time, Uncategorized
I just had another conversation with someone who finds it impossible to understand what we are selling. How peculiar. Peculiar because our value proposition is incredibly simple. Traditional language teaching technique work for most hard working students. Those...
by Bruce Balmer | Mar 15, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Italian, Statistics, Uncategorized
Today is the one year anniversary of my starting Italian. I have some numbers for the record. Start date : Mar 19, 2020 (early part of Covid in the UK)Finished Learning : Nov 30, 2020Days Learning: 258 (to reach my goal)Amount Learned: 12,704 fluency units (word /...
