HypnoGerman
is an innovative language learning program developed by Dr. Viktória G Duda, hypnotherapist and life-long multilingual, who has asked the question:
Why is it that people learn languages in school or on courses, for years and years on end, yet so rarely reach fluency?
Why is it that people learn languages in school or on courses, for years and years on end, yet so rarely reach fluency?
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Children have a natural ability to pick up a second language very well when exposed to a foreign culture. That is because there is a “language learning machine” inherent to the human brain which they utilise. We never actually lose this ability, just fail to switch it back on.
Since adult learners are exposed to the target language a lot less than children learning naturally their languages, they are not sufficiently immune to the three great enemies of language acquisition: |
Contrary to the commonly held myth, children do not actually learn a language faster than adults. They are only exposed to many more hours of meaningful input than the normal adult learner. A child is exposed to the target language 10-12 hours a day, thanks to the collective effort of parents, relatives and friends, television, games and kindergarten. The average adult learner only spends a few hours per week with the target language. |
Enemy Nr 1: Stressing
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As adults, we do not only get less exposure to the target language, as children regularly do, we are also more attached to the outcome and stress ourselves when we do not fulfil our own expectations. However, we know from modern psychology that the mind works the best, when relaxed: then it is more creative, learns better and remembers more.
When you use HypnoGerman, you will be in a relaxed, focused state, which is optimal for learning. This is the Alpha-state, in which brain waves slow down, like in half-sleep or day-dream (reverie). |
The brain is most effective when the Alpha-brain wave state: a relaxed, focused,
slightly hypnotic state of mind.
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Enemy Nr 2: Forgetting
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Research has shown that any new piece of vocabulary needs to be repeated a 100 times, before it reaches long-term linguistic memory. In old fashioned language class, words were memorised, then a vocabulary test was taken, and the word, in a few weeks, forgotten. It is not enough to simply remember a word, it has to come automatically: without thinking, without effort. (Like in sports, when a movement is stored in muscle memory.) In a natural environment, 100 repetitions of any given word occur rather quickly: if we learn a word at any given time, we are likely to hear it on television, in personal conversation or read it somewhere shortly again. And again. And again. But if we don’t live in the country where the language is spoken, our words are more vulnerable to forgetting. HynoGerman uses a spaced repetition system, which is designed to feed us back the learned information at optimised intervals, before it would be forgotten.
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Spaced Repetition Systems counteract the notorious "forgetting curve."
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Enemy Nr 3: Translating
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During many years, I have observed the difference between naturally bi- or multilingual people (who speak foreign languages as their own) and students in ld-school language classes (who might study a lot, but still struggle to use the foreign language). I understood that those people who struggle, translate in their heads: they think in their mother tongue all the time. Linguistically effective people don’t do that: they don’t translate – not even while they are learning the language! The brain can hardly cope with two languages running simultaneously (even professional translators can’t keep up doing that for more than 20 minutes).
Since HypnoGerman is based on visualisation, you learn by creating associations to images (rather than linking back to your mother tongue). That way you will get used to using a new language without translating, very much like bilingual children do it naturally. |
Visualisation is using the brain's natural way of processing information.
Using it helps to bypass the bad habit of translating everything inside our own head.
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Based on relaxation, visualisation & Mnemonics
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HypnoGerman is not some miraculous method, which enables you to learn a new language while in trance or asleep. That experiment has been tried and failed. It is, however, an indeed miraculous journey into the depth of your own mind, a step-by-step exploration into the workings of your own language machine. It is utilising leading-edge and so far almost hidden techniques which will enable you to understand, speak and read a foreign language, while giving you tools of visualisation, memory and positive manifestation you can use in other areas of life, as well.
When you speak a foreign language, it is like you are becoming a new person. It enables you to discover parts of your personality, which hitherto remained hidden. You take on the soul of a different culture, thereby you free yourself from limitation you previously might have imposed on yourself. |
HypnoGerman is:
☼ multimedia ☼ internet based ☼ individual ☼ and friendly. |
