I met with one of my tutors today.
We were reviewing the progress for a student she teaches. The student has studied 42 hours of Spanish. To put that into context:
With 1 hour of study per day, that’d be about 1.5 months
With 30 min of study per day, that’d be about 3 months
That’s not a very long time, all things considered.
She has progressed a lot.
She has doubled the number of tenses she uses in her speech while maintaining over 90% overall grammatical accuracy.
Furthermore, when she first started lessons she required translation assistance 15% of the time in a conversation, but now she only needs assistance 3% of the time.
Lastly, her vocabulary has increased by 26% (990 word families to 1250).
This kind of rapid progress should be normal.
You can experience it too. And it’s not complicated.
What’s the secret?
There are two steps.
Be consistent. I can only help you with this if you sign up for my lessons. We’re getting really good at encouraging students to be consistent. Read more about that here.
Use effective methods. This I can help with right now.
What is an “effective method?”
I’ll answer this rather specifically and directly. Over the past 17+ years of experience, I’ve distilled 10 self-study activities that are super effective and super easy to do.
Just use those and you’re off to the races!
Successful Calgary Language Nerds students are doing some combination of these 10 self-study activities. And they’re improving.
Let’s dig into these 10 methods.
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Thanks for reading!
Best of luck on your language learning journey.
Azren
Calgary Language Nerds owner
https://azrenthelanguagenerd.com