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Unforgettable
Languages In
the Press
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August
5, 2002
Languages:
A Fishy Way to Learn
--Nada El Sawy |
""Samakah"
means "fish." You can remember that by imagining
trying to smack a fish. Smack. Samakah. Smack. Samakah. Yes,
you're learning Arabic one word at a time. In two or three
hours, claims unforgettablelanguages.com, you will learn at
least 100 words. Doubt it? Try another one: the Portuguese
for "bed" is"cama." Picture a camel
lying on your bed. "It's rather addictive," says
site creator Michael Morehouse.That's evident from the sales
numbers. The "unforgettable" people offer 30
languages, amoung them Swahili, Hebrew and Greek. When the
site went up in mid-August 2001, it wasn't making any money.
But Arabic sales took off in January, tripling in a matter
of months and helping to push the service into
profitability. More than 300,000 people worldwide have now
used the site's courses or similar versions, and soon the
method will make an appearance in a few British classrooms.
Are all these people really learning languages with pure
mnemonic devices? The courses use memory researcher Dr.
Michael Gruneberg's Linkword method. After a weekend, the
site promises, you'll have a working vocabulary and basic
grammar..." |
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May
19, 2003
Get
Fluent for $30? News Channel 4 Puts CD's to the test
--Roseanne Colletti, Consumer Reporter |
NEW YORK -- "You've
probably seen endless ads for instructional videos promising to
teach you everything from playing a musical instrument to learning
another language. But how well do they work?"
Click on the NBC icon to see our newcast
report. |
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2004
The Web's
Greatest Hits
Your
One-Stop Guide to the Best Sites on the Internet"
-- book by Lynie Arden |
"You took Spanish in high
school, so how come all you can say is Another beer, please"?
Try one of these online courses. They utilize a new, fast
teaching method. Before you know it, you'll even be dreaming
in Spanish."
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Winter
2002
No. 26, 8-14
Language
Learning Journal
The Use of
Linkword Language Computer Courses in a Classroom Situation:
A Case Study at Rugby School
--Steffen Sommer and Michael Gruneberg |
"This paper presents a case study of the implementation of a
Linkword Language Course - French to a class of 13 year old pupils
at Rugby School. The class was selected because they were the
weakest at French, performed poorly in examinations, and had
problems in terms of motivation and enjoyment of French. The result
of introducing a Unforgettable French as a complimentary learning
aid to the standard text and classroom work was that after seven
months, following the end-of-year examination, a quarter of the
class was promoted to the class above, a move that could not be
expected otherwise. The results of a questionnaire revealed that the
great majority of pupils found the course easier and faster than
conventional methods of learning. Rugby School, as a result of the
study has continued the use of the courses, partly at the request of
the pupils..." |
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Jan.
24, 2003
London
Times Educational Supplement
Thanks for the Memory
--Elaine Johnson
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"How
do you remember the Spanish word for cow? Elaine Johnson watches
pupils learn languages by the use of bizarre images
I can still recall a lecture on memory that
I attended at Swansea University in which psychologist Professor
Michael Gruneberg explained how mnemonics could be used to teach
languages. That was nearly 20 years ago.
So I welcomed the opportunity to try out his
Linkword technique, which was originally developed for adults, in
school."
Click on the TES logo to read the article.
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August
21, 2002
Learning
Thai with a Palm Pilot...and a compulsive,
obsessive personality
--Gareth Powell |
"It
is claimed using these methods it is possible to learn 300 words a
day working at it more than, say, two or three hours a day. I tested
this and came to 297. Add in a few words that are the same in Thai and English _ passport, lipstick and so on _ and you can reach
300..."
Click on the Bangkok Post icon to read the
complete article.
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