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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

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)