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Theory:
Using the pre-acquired neuro-linguistic mechanisms |
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Why is learning a foreign language often so slow and complicated?
Because most of the time the learner is flooded with different kinds of information to memorize at the same time:
pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar rules, idioms, etc. As a consequence, the foreign language is truly perceived as “alien”, i.e. totally different from the native language.
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The Balingua method turns things around:
- Some elements are common to all languages, i.e. the neuro-linguistic mechanisms that all speakers have developed when learning their native language;
- These mechanisms shared by all languages are a pre-acquired competence that eases the learning of any new language. Without realizing it, the learner already knows things that the method can tap into to help him or her acquire a new language.
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This is why the Balingua method
- does not aim at teaching “content" (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation) but
- to “format" the brain in the language studied.
"To format" means: to tap into the pre-acquired neuro-linguistic mechanisms to help the learner to assimilate the syntactical structures of the language studied. When the learner’s brain is “formatted”, the latter is ready to use properly the structures of the new language. |
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