This is a broad effort. The goal is to have 50,000 people to volunteer to test a different kind of language learning. Online sessions begin this Wednesday, January 14. If you are serious about beginning to learn Spanish or improving your Spanish, this could be what you are looking for.
Trials start this WEDNESDAY, January 14.If you know anyone who might be interested in this program, please send them here to volunteer.
The idea behind this program is simple: The way we've been taught to learn a new language is all wrong (hence the incredibly large failure rate). When learned properly, you can become conversant in Spanish in a single day followed by 15 minutes of listening in the morning and at night for 30 days.
The full program (when it's ready at the end of January) will consist of four parts:
PART ONE: Memory priming. Half of our volunteers will participate in a brief memory priming exercise before learning Spanish with our new methods. If this sort of priming works as we think it should, the first step in our program will be to have your memory primed with a 15 minute video. You'll only need to watch it once.
PART TWO: Relaxation Recordings. Contrary to popular belief, learning all your colors together… all your body parts, your numbers, your foods is not the best way to learn a language. When it comes time to recall, you'll mix them up. Instead, you'll learn words in groups that form mental stories – banana, yellow, breakfast, table, waitress, cereal, milk, bagel, knife, butter, jam, bread, morning, coffee, etc. And the ultimate best way to learn is to choose word groups you use often. For me that might include food and travel words. For you it might include family or politics. You'll pick your morning and night routine. One at 60 bpm and the other at 120 bpm – the two best rhythms to learn a language.
PART THREE: Your One-Day Workbook. The hardest part about learning a new language is conjugating verbs. In this section you'll skip verb conjugation and instead build a vocabulary of useful Spanish words using patterns and words you already know. (Example: All words that end in or in English are the same in Spanish: doctor, doctor, etc). You'll find that when you combine certain verbs with words you know, you don't even need to conjugate to have conversations
PART FOUR: There are other tricks that can help you learn and we'll expand this section after we get the results from the trials you'll participate in starting Wednesday. These pieces include learning words with pictures and no translation. And recall techniques used by ancient scholars to help them recall hundreds of names, dates and locations with ease.I'm so excited for Wednesday, and looking forward to seeing the results of the quizzes. We're working hard to make this an awesome experience for you.
This is your last chance to get a friend or family member on board. Studies show you'll be far more successful if you involve others around you rather than going it alone. This is true for dieting, studying, and healing yourself from illnesses and mental fatigue. The more allies you have, the better.
Please send them here and tell them to volunteer before Wednesday.
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