This is a blog about my Internalization Method for learning foreign languages as introduced on YouTube here. This is a transcript of my YouTube video:
Hi, my name
is Alexander Demidov. I’m a certified teacher and translator, and here I’m
offering you a taste of my method for learning foreign languages, which I call
the Internalization Method (метод интернализации in Russian).
The
Internalization Method is based on three ideas.
One. Time.
Learning a language takes time. There’s no getting around it. Babies are born
with an innate ability to learn a language, but it still takes them a couple of
years to start speaking properly. And it certainly takes time to learn a second
language. There are no shortcuts to success. [Oh no!] You’ve got to put in the
hours. [Yup.] But most people live busy lives and find it difficult to make time
for this. So we must devise a way to fit it in. That’s one, time.
Two. No
translation. Most people try to speak a second language by translating whatever
they’re thinking in their own tongue. This is bad for three reasons: a) it’s
extremely tiring; [This is exhausting.] b) you’ll never get it right; and c)
you’ll always be coming up short, unable to translate this or that word,
embarrassing yourself and leaving your audience hanging. [Boo!] All right, OK.
[You suck!]. By the same token, formulating your thoughts in the target
language will let you speak easily, idiomatically and fluently. That’s two, no
translation.
Three.
Internalize. Do it in your head. If you go on a course and work hard, doing all
the exercises, drills etc., you’re sure to make progress. However, once the
course is over, you start slipping. And soon you find yourself back to square
one, all your hard-won knowledge and skills forgotten. [Ah.] My method lets you
make it your own. You internalize it, it becomes part of your mental landscape,
you own it, and it gives you your own personal tutor, sitting right there in
your head, available and doing his or her stuff 24/7 for as long as you live.
[Yea!] In other words, you move language acquisition from a brick-and-mortar or
online classroom into your head. That’s three, internalization. And the
Internalization Method integrates all of the above into an effective tool for
language acquisition.
The bottom
line: Whatever your level, the Internalization Method can revolutionize your
whole language learning process in one session, getting you on track to real
fluency in no time. [Oh yeah.]
And this
wraps up my elevator pitch.
For a
transcript and Russian translation of this video, see below.
I’m looking
forward to hearing from you. Bye.
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