Possible Areas of Individual Consultation

1) Establishing goals, testing capabilities
We will discuss and examine the following areas:
your goals;
your existing linguistic, learning and communication strategies;
the linguistic, learning and communication strategies to be developed;
your experience in the desired culture; potential situations in your life that can be used for acquiring the language.

2) Testing language skills
We will test your present capacity to communicate in the target language (using an external expert, if necessary).

The first two steps are best performed at a single session.

3) Action Plan

Together we devise a plan tailored to your everyday activities. The main areas could be the following:
A) regular sessions with our developer / a teacher / native mentor(s) / coach / therapist;
B) specific language learning activities at appropriate times (while commuting to work, etc.);
C) switching as many of your normal activities to the target language as possible.

4) Skill development
Selected language processing and related capabilities will be brought to the surface with the help of our consultants. Some examples could be childhood resources, appropriate emotional states, sophisticated forms of empathy, thinking in the target language, spelling, pronunciation, remembering, comprehension strategies, etc.

5) Sessions with a mentor / teacher
You will be provided with native mentor(s) and / or a teacher who is highly skilled in the target language in order to reach the desired degree of fluency in the content areas of your choice. Sessions that use the language while being engaged in various activities are often deemed more efficient than just sitting and talking, and especially more efficient then sitting in a classroom. These meetings may take the form of a somewhat unusual language lesson, or the mentor may join you in activities you are doing anyway as part of your life or work. Or, you may together find some new, interesting activities to be pursued in the new language.

6) Creating a native environment
In order to continually and effortlessly absorb the linguistic structures, vocabulary and culture, the desired new language will be introduced into as many areas of your life and environment as possible. (As if you were living in a native environment.)

7) Tasks
Specific (interesting and pleasant) language development tasks will be set that exploit the unused possibilities of your life. The success of your learning process will depend considerably upon your regularly completing these tasks.

8) Testing progress
The effectiveness of the chosen activities is monitored regularly. Some may have to be performed more frequently, others altered, and some new possibilities added in the process of your learning. At a given point, when you are satisfied with the results, or are able to continue on your own, we will let you go to reap the benefits of your new expertise. You may simply refer us to your friends then, or continue with us – and another new language…

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