Caliber of Students Sought

I seek serious students with experience in learning foreign languages to study with me in person.

Are you

• an academic, a language teacher, a foreign service agent, a mature home schooler, or anyone else who appreciates the hard work involved in studying languages?
• highly motivated to begin intensive language study?
• eager to improve your abilities in a target language and learn transferable skills for teaching yourself other languages in the future?
• interested in a holistic system of learning language that exists outside the passive, controlling structure of a classroom?
• looking for inspiration and structure from an experienced polyglot?
• ready to be amazed by your own ability to learn a language in a short period of time?
  

The Academy

I am instituting a foreign language academy that builds on my decade-long experience teaching “The Effective Study of Foreign Languages,” a college linguistics tutorial. Many students of this course have contacted me years after their graduation to say this tutorial comprised their most valuable undergraduate educational experience.

I am now ready to present all the knowledge from that course in a small group format that offers the necessary intensity, focus, and systematic regularity students require to learn languages effectively and efficiently. I will not instruct students in a specific language. Rather, I will teach students how to teach themselves a language.

Proposed Course of Study

One month of training with me will include the following:

• an analytical review of all available study materials and a selection of the most appropriate ones for you;
• instruction in the most effective techniques for using these materials;
• prescription of a variegated study regimen for implementing those techniques;
• personal instruction and coaching for approximately two hours each day to ensure that the regimen is implemented correctly and that a habit of systematic and effective study is formed; and
• daily, individual assignments to further promote and develop language study skills.
  

Application

If you can benefit from this unique resource, please contact me via e-mail at .

In your letter of introduction, please provide the following detailed information so I can better pool small, cohesive groups of like-minded students for the most efficient instruction:

• your language learning experience,
• your current language learning goals,
• your desired timeframe to begin your study with me.
  

Please also feel free to contact me if you would prefer private instruction to the small group format, or if you would like any other form of individualized coaching.

You may also send specific questions about language learning to me at the “Lessons in Polyglottery” forum. 

To learn more about my autodidactic linguistic endeavors, please refer to the other pages of this website, posts on the “Lessons in Polyglottery” forum, and my instructional videos on YouTube.