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GENERIC LANGUAGE BRIDGE SOFTWARE

Learning English without Explanations in your Native Language

You probably know that the main barrier in acquiring a foreign language is cross-translation. Adult students are not aware that in most cases they subconsciously translate English words and sentences into and from their native language, and thus try to understand the meaning of spoken English by using their native language. Speech is a subconscious process both in your native language and in English. It is hard to express your thoughts in English if you start analyzing your sentence in your mind and asking yourself if it is right to use that word block or that verb tense. Most adults think that you should think hard before you pronounce a sentence in English - it results in unnatural sentences with huge pauses between each word.

Simultaneous repetition turns off subconscious translation into your native language and activates a new English language speech center that allows you to speak automatically without thinking and analyzing the grammar of each sentence that you pronounce. It helps you to listen and imitate spoken language rather than learn from theory. During simultaneous repetition direct wiring is formed between the English word block and the situation you are describing without the use of your native language.

Fluency in English is determined not by how many words you have remembered; fluency is determined by ability to express your thoughts and feelings automatically, without thinking how to say something - the words appear at the tip of your tongue automatically ignited by your thoughts and feelings. Simultaneous repetition helps you to form an English language speech center in the brain that will provide the needed words to express your feelings and thoughts by association with your past experience. In other words, simultaneous repetition is a way to accumulate your past experience in English thus ensuring stable wiring between the English word block and a mental picture of the situation you are describing.

The drills to all lessons are similar. The most important is the first drill in which you read, with increasing speed, short expressions that constitute the basis of the current lesson. If you don't know a word in the expression, you may find the translation into your native language by using the link to Internet electronic dictionaries given in the left panel of the Language Bridge software. When you find the translation of the word, imagine its meaning and repeat many times the whole expression without attempting to memorize translation of separate words; instead pronounce the expression with increasing speed until you can say it as automatically as your phone number.

Soon you will start speaking in English on any topic in your daily life without realizing you’re doing it automatically. All major components of this modern, scientific approach to learning English are incorporated into the Language Bridge software. As an added benefit, the Language Bridge seamlessly incorporates multiple free Internet resources into a modularized, computer-based learning environment. Students have unprecedented control of their learning environment and can add an electronic dictionary, testing programs, and drills to new lessons of their choice. They even can print out all lessons and drills and use the software for offline learning. Teachers and advanced students can add to the software additional learning resources of their choice, which will expand further their specialized vocational or technical vocabulary skills.

An investment in Language Bridge is an investment in understanding, professional growth, bridging the gaps between a person, a company or organization—or even a nation—and the nearly one billion speakers of English around the world.

All in a quarter of the time, when used in blended learning: self-study software + private lessons with a teacher familiar with the Language Bridge Technology.