When I was at school I felt boring while sitting on several lessons. Especially I hated English – I always made mistakes and teacher forced me to memorize this rules and tenses. I got bad marks, tried to study hard but really couldn’t make any step forward. Therefore I was bored and stressed all the time on this lessons and there were no development in my studying.
I finished University without knowledge of second language and you may know how it’s important now to have a communicative skill in English. I didn’t know what to do, headhunters required resumes with advanced knowledge of English, and it was quite hard to attend interviews with such a poor level of second language I had.
So I started to search in internet some effective way to learn language. And finally I’ve found it. There was a very energized and active young teacher from San Francisco who offered a new method of learning languages than I had in school. He’s name is AJ Hoge and his system I guess is now one of the most demanded in the World for learning English. Main idea is that second language is the same as first language and therefore should be thought the same way.The system is based on following positions:
1) No grammar – it kills motivation for learning language
Can you remember you were studying grammar constructions and rules of you native language while was a kid? NO! Do you speak it perfectly now? SURE!
2) First listen – then speak
The system is based on monolingual translation – when teacher explain difficult words by simple ones. For example, improvement – is a process when you make something better in yourself. Simple and understandable? YES! This way learner understand real meaning of difficult word without needing to translate it inside on his native language.
3) Repetition is way of success
How you learned your native language while was a kid? You listened the same words and phrases many times a day and then started to pronounce it. You made mistakes but who cared? NOBODY! On the contrary your parents inspired every new word you pronounced even it was wrong JI got AJ’s lessons and followed his advices. And you know what? I started to speak English after 3 weeks! And now I want you to speak Russian! We made our lessons with the same method as AJ’s. I KNOW FOR SURE it can help you. <img title="Laughing" src="http://www.italki.com/Scripts/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" />
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