The most remarkable claims for accelerated learning in foreign-language training have come from Dr. Georgi Lozanov. He reports* that Bulgarian students have actually found it easier to remember between 1,000 and 1,200 new foreign words a day than 500 words. Here are the results he records from 896 "suggestopedic" language-training sessions:

*Dr. Lozanov's results are reported fully in his book, Suggestology and Outlines of Suggestopedy, published by Gordon and Breach, New York (1978). Both the current authors were present during Dr. Lozanov's keynote presentation to the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching in Seattle, Washington, in 1991. It is fair to report, however, that in all our research we have not encountered results outside Bulgaria that come anywhere near matching the ones reported above. Dr. Charles Schmid, in San Francisco, has reported students being presented with 400 foreign words in a day and being able to use them in conversation within three days (see page 323), a remarkable enough feat.