Chapter 4 - A do-it-yourself guide

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eyes closed while more music is played in soft tones and the language is effectively "surfed" under it. This is a key element of the Lozanov technique, and the music is almost invariably baroque to maintain, and synthesize with, the most effective learning state: alpha.
  h. Students are also encouraged to replay the baroque music before they go to bed at night, and to look through their workbook pictures of the "act" they're studying. In that way, the subconscious keeps filing the new information overnight.
  i. Next day the student plays games, supplied in his kit, to reinforce some of the main words learned.
  j. The kit* includes other suggestions, including pictures and words for common clothes and household items - and a physical learning video. This teaches you in the same way you learned your own language as an infant - although much faster. The presenter mimes each word or phrase, while you learn to say "sit" (asseyez-vous in French), "walk" (marchez) or "touch your elbow" (touchez votre coude).
  k. Apart from the 2,000 main words, most other words can be worked out if you understand the "keys". In Japanese, for example, most female first names end in "ko," so if you see the name "Michiko" you know the person is probably female. So a typical do-it-yourself kit includes a guide to all the main principles of the new language.

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  These simple methods will help you remember anything much more effectively, even without making a detailed study of integrative accelerated learning techniques. But the real challenge is to use your ability to create new solutions. To use your brainpower to think for successful new ideas. And here, too, The Learning Revolution provides some easy answers.

* Not all foreign language programs are the same. With the development of these techniques, some language programs around the world have merely been "put to music". The method we have outlined here is that used by Accelerated Learning Systems, of Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks, England, which is the system we have found most effective for "teaching yourself". We acknowledge, with thanks, their permission to summarize their main points, and to use illustrations from one of their language courses. But we stress that these courses are basically intended for do-it-yourself study. Teachers using the same material in classrooms are recommended to link it directly with the teaching methods covered in chapter nine.

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