Call me old-fashioned… but I don’t believe in gamification. I am not going to trick you into learning. I won’t produce seemingly fun materials to provide you with the dopamine kick connected to clicking on a screen. My job is to make you speak and understand through connection with me. That’s what I will focus on. Always! Therefore, I leave the rest of the work to professionals, and I have you buy a textbook. There… Read More »Textbook or not ?
I have heard that every so often from one student or another. Let me tell you that is inefficient. First, your brain has indeed managed to retain something from what we have gone throught since last course, nearly in spite of you. I am currently trying to learn italian, at my own pace and with looong breaks without touching my textbook. I am amazed about how much I retain everytime, without doing anything. Second, will… Read More »I’d like to cancel the course because I haven’t studied since last course…
Long ago, when I was 12 years old and in Germany for the first time, I met with the fear of speaking in a foreign language. What if they didn’t understand me? What if I said the contrary of what I meant? What if I said something completely out of turn? What if I said something gross or insulting? What if…? I have been putting off the real start of this blog for 16 months… Read More »About fear
