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Secrets of Structured Learning: How Your Brain wants you to Learn to Speak English (or indeed, Any Other Skill) so it NEVER forgets
Do you forget your English as soon as you learn it?
If so, you’re doing something wrong, and you need to learn how to learn English as a second language in a way that actually works, based on what we know from cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
This is what "The Secrets of Structured Learning" is all about.
When I was a beginner in Japanese, I improved fast. But as soon as I hit the dreaded intermediate barrier things went horribly, horribly wrong.
It's not like I wasn't studying. I was. In fact, I was studying a lot. I felt like I'd done everything. I tried all kinds of different methods. Every book. Every audio course. I spent hours watching films and YouTube trying to learn by listening ('cos I read somewhere that was a good idea). I took lessons with a tutor and put hours into learning more and more new words.
Yet… I didn’t see progress.
The problem was that I was learning in the wrong way.
Your brain wants you to learn to speak English (or indeed any other skill) in a specific way – and it’s NOT the way that most people try to learn (and not what you see in the average English learning method...).
It’s not the way you learned at school.
It’s not the way that companies train their employees… and in fact, it’s completely different from what most of us think we should do.
Here’s just some of what this book covers:
* The Principles of Structured Learning – how your Brain WANTS you to learn to speak English (or indeed, any other skill…) based on what we know from cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
* Why learning more, and trying to learn “fast” is actually making you learn less, and slower (and what you should be doing instead).
* The simple “Two-Step” method for learning to speak amazing English in record time.
* Why corporate training almost never succeeds, and the big mistake a sales manager of a hundred-million-dollar company made (that cost his company HUGE sums of money… and got him fired).
* The airline industry's secret to creating some of the most highly training and skilled people in the world (yes - you can do the same with English).
* Why you forget the English you learned (often FASTER than you learned it…) and what to do to ensure everything you learn STICKS and becomes active, usable English.
* The Story two men with brain damage, and what that tells us about learning (that you can easily apply to your daily study… whether it’s English or anything else).
And a whole lot more.
If so, you’re doing something wrong, and you need to learn how to learn English as a second language in a way that actually works, based on what we know from cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
This is what "The Secrets of Structured Learning" is all about.
When I was a beginner in Japanese, I improved fast. But as soon as I hit the dreaded intermediate barrier things went horribly, horribly wrong.
It's not like I wasn't studying. I was. In fact, I was studying a lot. I felt like I'd done everything. I tried all kinds of different methods. Every book. Every audio course. I spent hours watching films and YouTube trying to learn by listening ('cos I read somewhere that was a good idea). I took lessons with a tutor and put hours into learning more and more new words.
Yet… I didn’t see progress.
The problem was that I was learning in the wrong way.
Your brain wants you to learn to speak English (or indeed any other skill) in a specific way – and it’s NOT the way that most people try to learn (and not what you see in the average English learning method...).
It’s not the way you learned at school.
It’s not the way that companies train their employees… and in fact, it’s completely different from what most of us think we should do.
Here’s just some of what this book covers:
* The Principles of Structured Learning – how your Brain WANTS you to learn to speak English (or indeed, any other skill…) based on what we know from cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
* Why learning more, and trying to learn “fast” is actually making you learn less, and slower (and what you should be doing instead).
* The simple “Two-Step” method for learning to speak amazing English in record time.
* Why corporate training almost never succeeds, and the big mistake a sales manager of a hundred-million-dollar company made (that cost his company HUGE sums of money… and got him fired).
* The airline industry's secret to creating some of the most highly training and skilled people in the world (yes - you can do the same with English).
* Why you forget the English you learned (often FASTER than you learned it…) and what to do to ensure everything you learn STICKS and becomes active, usable English.
* The Story two men with brain damage, and what that tells us about learning (that you can easily apply to your daily study… whether it’s English or anything else).
And a whole lot more.
66 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2018
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About the author
Julian Northbrook
11 books53 followersJulian Northbrook is an unconventional punk of the business English learning world. A leading expert in English education and entrepreneurship, he’s fully equipped to drag you kicking and screaming from English-mediocracy to speaking at an outstanding level. After being turned down for his dream job in the art industry, Julian suffered three long years as a crap Japanese speaker. He understands exactly what it’s like to feel like a total idiot every time you speak. But Julian overcame his language problems, mastered the language, and went on to work first as a freelance translator, then as an executive member of a Japanese company. But he soon grew sick of the corporate world and left to do something more satisfying - teaching people how to speak English at an extraordinary level.
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November 17, 2020
This one is really good. I listen to it quite often and despite being quite short (30 minutes audio book) it has a lot of invaluable information. I also use the information from this book to hone my drawing and writing skills.
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