What is the purpose of this blog?

The aim of this blog is to help foreign language learners become competent in their chosen language in the shortest possible time.

It is designed to explain how to tackle difficulties and overcome hurdles as they arise and provide proven solutions to boost performance wherever needed.

How can this set of skills benefit you?

Each item in this blog addresses specific learning barriers. Each post covers crucial topics, abilities, and challenges that all foreign language learners must understand and grasp in order to develop skills quickly and efficiently.
The information is suitable for all ability levels and for any language. Of course, certain pages may be more relevant to you than others.

What you were probably never told but need to know

Looking at the route taken by language learners, the success rate is pitifully low. In the United Kingdom, for example, just 10% of the population can communicate effectively in a foreign language. You are not alone if you blame your failure on yourself, a lack of motivation, or a lack of ability.
There are a number of valid causes for this failure and collective defeat, the majority of which are deeply established.
They aren’t your fault, and there is a solution.
Our course focuses on some of the mind’s inherent barriers, and how to overcome them. The road to fluency also includes fast-track lanes for  hazardous off-roading!, as well as the introduction of underlying principles for new language learning habits.

What you were never told and need to prepare for

Our goal at [SPI:K] is to help you put in place the pillars of “your language talent”.
You will discover how to build and fine tune learning as well as create and nurture environments for progress.
There are important skills for you to learn and foster. Some – usually considered as a given or an excuse for not being able to learn – are addressed head on. For example, attitude and self-confidence are skills that can be understood, arranged into steps and practised. The same applies to ear power, accent and memory, as well as designing an environment for growth.

What you need to do

This is the ‘in-action’, detailing what you need to do in order to optimise your conversations with native speakers and the reality of engaging, communicating and learning from every exchange.
In order to be carried out, these activities require focussed attention. Your listening and speaking skills are mostly influenced, controlled and ruled by habits and expectations linked to your native language.
With [SPI:K] you will learn to adapt and re-align routines, avoid counterproductive habits and create new ones. You will train your self-confidence, tune-up your go-for-it attitude, enhance your own non-verbal skills, nurture reading foreign body language, boost your mimicking skills, design your surroundings to maintain progress and much more!