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 | Aug 16, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Time
Spaced repetition has been around a long time. I first started using it seriously around 1992. It is transformative in its ability to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary results. In fact, it formed one of the three foundations of my work getting “gifted...
by Bruce Balmer | Jul 27, 2021 | Accelerated Learning, Activity, French, German, Languages, Listening, Motivation, Reading, Spanish, Speaking, Statistics, Time, Writing
Congratulations to Chrissi. She recently completed a day of reviews and got 99% right. That 99% was her score across over 60 reviews, combining material from everything she has learned so far for French and Spanish and which is tested without prior revision – in...
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...
