Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition, he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical knowledge in short periods of time.
Attention, meaning, relevance and memory
Five Principles
- Focus on language content that is relevant to you (We learn tools fastest when they are relevant to us)
- Use your language as a tool to communicate from day 1
- When you first understand the message you will unconsciously acquire the language (Krashen ,2013)
- physiological training
- Psycho-physiological state matters, learn when happy and don’t get frustrated
7 actions for rapid language acquisition
- Listen a lot (brain soaking)
- Focus on getting the meaning first (use body language)
- Start mixing and be creative
- focus on the core
- Week 1: The Tool box (learn to say the following all in the target language)
* What is this
* How do you say?
* I don’t understand - Week 2-3 pronouns, common adverbs, adjectives
- Week 4 glue words, but and, though
- Week 1: The Tool box (learn to say the following all in the target language)
- Get a language parent to help you understand
- works to understand what you are saying
- does not correct mistakes
- confirms understanding by using correct language
- uses words the learner knows
- Copy the face
- Work on the muscles and look at native speakers
- Direct connect to mental image (visual association)
