Learn to speak English quicker than ever using your iPod or
MP3 player.
That small easy to use globally ubiquitous piece of technology in your pocket has the power to change your life forever and help you to learn to speak English almost ten times faster than the most popular English course publishers claim in their own publicity.
Everyone knows about audio-lingual English courses, the ones where you buy a box with a small book and some cassette tapes or CDs and then listen to cheesy conversational scenarios.
In recent years they have been upgraded and are now available as MP3s that you can upload onto your iPod or MP3 player enabling you to listen anywhere, anytime. Now it is possible to easily create your own personalised super effective audio-lingual English acquisition courses using free Internet technology and some unique English course materials for teachers and students.
The effectiveness of the standard audio-lingual method, as with virtually all language learning techniques, has often been disputed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in the case of audio-lingual courses most get listened to once or twice and then never get used again, the learner becoming bored and de-motivated.
The reason for this is probably because the content is quite uninspiring and not relevant to the learner. Also, they have not experienced any personal feeling of success using the target language, either on paper or through speaking it. So they really don’t know how much language they have absorbed, and what, if any, they can actually understand and use for themselves.
Second language acquisition research strongly suggests that the human brain requires a considerable amount of comprehensible input (understandable content processing in the language being learnt such as reading and listening) before it is ready to speak a language. The more a learner can get of this at just the right level (a little bit but not too far above the learner’s level for understanding most of what is being communicated), the better.
We also know that the brain is vain and that it loves to listen to itself . So what if we substituted the boring fake scenarios and cheap actors of a mass produced audio-lingual course and replaced them with you speaking to a fluent English speaker in English about something interesting involving language you needed to be able to use well?
Well, this is now possible, is great fun, inexpensive and proven to dramatically boost the learners’ ability to speak better English. Simply by using Facebook, Skype, free audio recording apps and some specially created English learning ebooks you can follow some lessons, use the language from the lessons with your English speaking friends and then listen to it all over again as much as you like on your iPod or MP3 player. Your audio-lingual course can now have you in the lead role and be relevant to your own life and the language you need to learn to improve it.
What’s more, if you practice with four or five people per lesson you will hear different accents, hear where you were going wrong or why you were misunderstood in certain places and your brain will naturally be interested and hence absorb a lot more of the language and the correct way to say words and phrases. In other words you will learn naturally, effortlessly, just by listening. All you need to do is follow the lessons, do the practice and then listen again at your leisure. Your own highly personalised, super interesting, linguistically relevant, audio-lingual English speaking course.
To listen to before and after proof of people who have benefited hugely from using this innovative method and to hear an adult Chinese English learner (who had studied English formally for 16 years but still spoke like a beginner) start to speak comfortably at intermediate level after just six lessons visit: www.EnglishOutThere.com