Using this process for skills development, you will find yourself absorbing masses of sophisticated, useful language much faster than you could by following a step-by-step course book, doing ‘ fill the gap ‘ exercises or struggling to remember vocabulary without context via flash cards or word lists.
You will of course in parallel want to cope with the demands of interactions with others in your new language. We don't expect you to remember but help you create your personal quick retrieval database and a conversation book to anticipate and rehearse what you will need. You decide what you need to learn and when.
We give you a FOCUS catalogue showing how your new language works. It is organised so that you can quickly look up how to ask questions, agree, disagree, be enthusiastic, say no, indicate who, what, which, when, where, how much, how often and how likely. It includes all the sentence building words you need, and about 1000 high frequency descriptors; an overview of the verb system so that you can easily talk about the present, the past and the future, the factual and the hypothetical; a list of high frequency verbs, especially those (I want to, I have to, I’m going to, I can, I could, etc.) that you can combine with a standard form of less familiar verbs.
We give you multiple checklists to help you monitor your progress, and step-by-step FOCUS activities to help you enjoy extending your range and interacting with native speakers wherever you encounter them.
Our aim is for you to become addicted to communicating in your chosen language and culture, driven by ‘want power’, not will power.