Language Learning Facts:

• The only essential ingredient necessary for language acquisition to occur is Comprehensible Input (CI).
• Input = reading & listening to the language
• Comprehensible Input = UNDERSTANDING what you hear and read.
• If input is also compelling and in context, acquisition will occur more quickly and more enjoyably.
• Being forced to speak and/or repeat words and phrases does not lead to acquisition or learning.
• Conjugation does not lead to communication.
• An average learner needs to hear words 50 to 100 times (in a compelling, contextualized and comprehensible way) before s/he will internalize it.
• Reading will greatly enhance acquisition and increase the rate of acquisition!
• Our brains are not wired to focus on grammatical rules and language simultaneously. In other words, knowing grammar rules will not help you become fluent. In fact, it will actually deter it!

Give us 20 minutes, and we’ll prove it!