Will I only speak English?  Will there be other students from my country?

This is a very real fear that many students have. It is very difficult to always speak in English if the people around you are speaking together and indeed speaking to you in your mother tongue. Unfortunately, it is human nature to seek the easiest route and if that is communicating in your own language many people will do it even if they are paying to learn English. You may feel stupid if you insist on speaking in English and will probably lose the battle and resort to your own language.

So why is MovingOn Courses so confident that you will only speak in English?

Firstly, remember that you live with your teachers. In summer you live in a university residence  and there is a teacher in every apartment

If you choose our fully intensive option with afternoon activities/trips then you will spend the whole day with the teachers. Please note that the teachers  continue working as teachers and do not simply attend the trips for tourism. They will correct you, help with any structures or new vocabulary etc. Obviously they will impose 100% English. It is just like being in a classroom environment.

More things to have in mind:

When you arrive on the course we will remind you that any time you spend speaking another language is a waste of your time and money. However, we will  also appeal to your conscience and remind you that if you do not speak 100% English you will waste the time and money of your colleagues.  And crucially, if you do not speak 100% English you will be destroying our business. Guess what! We will not let you do that and if you do we will ask you to leave the course and we will return your money.

The homestay courses in Belfast (available all year – www.  )

Talking about other other courses.

Remember if a course offers you the guarantee of only a few students of the same nationality in your class there will be other students of your nationality attending other classes. You need to consider how much free time you will have when there is no teacher to ensure you only speak English.

The following will be weekly blog so that people interested in learning English with MovingOn Courses or elsewhere can have abundant reference material.

Which is best: live in with an English family or live in a residence or shared flat etc?

We have to bare in mind your priorities. Are you visiting an English language country  solely to learn English or are you thinking of combining an English language learning experience with a cultural experience. Or perhaps you are just looking for a good holiday abroad and if you learn some English then you are pleasantly surprised.

All this series of question and answer will be addressed at people who wish to learn English as fast as possible hope that some of these students wish to learn English in a different environment. MovingOn Courses offers

Sorry, I need to review the information in the last post about learning a language faster through a system i have not fully checked.

Hey, it can also be considered a call for help and references.

Anyway, i have since come across a similar website that is perhaps a little more commecial but nontheless equally useful.

The web http://mnemosyne-proj.org/ seems to offer a systemised way to learn a language through flash cards.

MovingOn Courses offers intensive residential English courses so these systems are pretty much our antithesis but that does not mean that they cannot be combined with one of our wonderful course

All feedback about any quick or alternative learning method woudl be much appreciatec

Look for podcasts – there you have an easy enjoyable route to language learning!

Learn a language faster and not with MovingOn Courses

It is not normal for us to recommend another company or another website. This is not because we do not want to lose students but rather because we do not have time to fully check out  other centres or language resources.  We do not want to recommend an alternative way to learn a language, especially English, without knowing the quality of the language centre or language system involved.

Anyway, the point is that I came across an article about how to go about memorising information.  Bugger, got to check who has written this wonderful article.  Below i give my own summary.

Thanks to the work of many psychologists over many years a guy called   has put together a software programme that helps people memorise information better. Notice I did not say improve your memory. The idea/concept is to use less time to memorise information because you learn and relearn the information at the right time, with the right intensity etc

For the learning process you need to maximise/minimise your time spent learning. It may seem obvious so far but various psychologists have investigated how to best go about the learning process and some of their finding are contra intuitive.

The contra intuitive aspect explains that just because you memorise something frequently and find that you seem to know it perfectly after several repetitions does not mean that you can remember this information long term.

My personal summary for remembering information is as follows. The more difficult it is to remember something the better you will remember it long term (of course after having retrieved this information from your memory

For the moment I am still thinking how this applies to the English language courses offered by ourselves.

If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated.

We offer the opp

Oh and this not even a full on recommendation because we are yet to try out this software.

we will fillout the post shortly – for the moment it is an experiment

Go learn your language of choice