Success story: 25 minutes of conversation after just 12 lessons
Here's the secret that unlocked her fluency
One of my French students had a breakthrough today! She had 25 minutes of fluent conversation after just 12 lessons.
Keep reading below for the key to her success! If you want to progress fast like my student, book an info call. I’d be happy to provide you with more info.
The student’s past experience with French
She is an adult who did some French in middle school, but didn’t study it after that. As an adult, she used Duolingo prior to signing up for 25 hours of private lessons with another tutor who used a variety of traditional teaching methods.
Results with my teaching method
I’ve been developing a new teaching method since the fall of 2023. Read more about that here. Here are the student’s progress highlights. She takes two 60-minute private lessons every week.
First lesson: 0 minutes of fluent conversation
Third lesson: 5 minutes of fluent conversation
Seventh lesson: 10 minutes of fluent conversation
Twelfth lesson: 25 minutes of fluent conversation
Pretty crazy, right!? She went from being unable to hold conversations at all to conversing for almost 30 minutes…after just 12 lessons!
The best part is that these types of results are typical at the Calgary Language Nerds. So far, incredibly fast conversational progress is the norm with those we’ve taught with the new teaching method.
Keys to her success
For this student specifically, the biggest breakthrough was a Fluency Framework I created called Triple A. This framework outlines a set of unwritten conversation rules. We all, essentially, only do three things when conversing:
Ask. We ask each other relevant questions.
Acknowledge. We acknowledge what the other person said
Add. We add some relevant information based on what the other person said
Teaching her this framework turned our conversation into a game of ping-pong. We both equally participated in the conversation, bouncing around topics in a free-flowing, natural fashion.
Next steps
I will work with this student to improve upon her current results. I will also be introducing Success Streaks into her lessons. A Success Streak is a motivating way to track how many times in a row a student maintains a certain level of fluency.
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Great success! Congratulations. Keep up the good work!