The paths we travel are so varied. Some paths are scenic and beautiful. Some are overgrown with weeds and give a rash on your ankles. Others are wide and carry a lot of foot traffic. Some lead across bridges, incude danger, or end in places unfamiliar. Still others allow a person to feel comfortable, enthusiastic, and filled with laughter and friendship.
Learning a language is setting yourself on a path that is pretty unique. Everyone's paths to fluency are a little different. I know some who don't learn because their circumstances didn't give them opportunities to be around the language. But others have become fluent because they were determined, put themselves around those who spoke the langauge and even made friends so they could practice.
A language path for a person is rarely the same as someone else's path. That's why at L2Fluency we sit down with a person for about an hour to discuss where a person wants his or her path to lead, where it has led them so far, and what one's expectations about methods are. After that hour a path is designed taking into consideration the points discussed.
A person's native language doesn't matter. We have encountered and designed learning sessions for business people from France, Japan and China, students pursuing both graduate and undergraduate degrees from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Polynesia, employees in the American workforce, and business owners who want to live in countries south of the U.S. border. Each of these people's paths were unique, with greaty varied backgrounds, and goals. Their prior experiences with language, both their native ones and the ones desired, were all different.
Join us at L2 Fluency. We plan with you and give you a specially crafted instructional session for you to learn what you need to speak and undersand, and read and write if wanted.
The L2 difference is that we have a linguist that can design your program, practice with you, put you in learning situations and environments with natives, and instruct you in a way that matches your background.
Recording why you are learning English, using English words to do so, is a very good way to keep your goal in front of you. Click on the button for an example of a Japanese speaker learning English.