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e-zine Jan 2006
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“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must take it” Charles Buxton – British Administrator in South America (1853 – 1809). How many times do you say “I haven’t got time”? If you really want something you can make time with forward planning. Spend just FIVE minutes a day on language learning (or even every other day Promise yourself, this year I will learn to speak.....	“Strategies for Wealth and Happiness” by Jim Rohn “Don’t start your day until it is finished” in other words start your day the night before by deciding what you are going to do. It works a treat I can tell you from my own experience. Be careful, of course not to do plan every minute of the day. Leave spaces of time for unexpected events. *Anne* click the link to visit Amazon and buy this book	52 Language Prompt Cards Each set contains illustrations with words in Spanish, French & German Click logo to order by email £5.99 *+ 50p post and packing*		cassettes and CDs 3CDs £27.00 - Save £5.97 3 X Cassettes £18.00 Save £5.97 enhances learning effortlessly These are....easily transportable can be used with families, friends, and colleagues. for teachers in classes, groups or with individuals Spanish, French and German excellent value.

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			LFA dice help language learners with numbers and words.	Only £1.00 per pack they give ideas for games to make the task of learning a language easier and fun.

TONGUE TWISTER	FREE -EBOOK	LEARNING TIPS
Pauvre petit pêcheur, prend patience pour pouvoir prendre plusieurs petits poisons	Recommend a friend to.... sign up for our ezine and will send you a free e-book. With over 50 pages of helpful ideas to assist you to remember the things you need to remember it’s a language students ideal aide-memoire - entitled Memory Improvement Techniques. If they're up for it, send us their email and yours and we will do the rest!	Make up a series of word searches. Change all the words in the word search into the language you are learning and then do it the other way round- translate them back into English. This fixes words into your memory and is a lot of fun too! 2) Prepare a game of bingo to be played with friends. Put six or nine words from a prepared list into a set of squares. Make sure each square is slightly different. Each game can cover a different topic like clothes, foods, verbs, travel, prepositions etc. Again it is fun to do and assists the learning process plus you have a gift to help others

www.aspire-achieve.co.uk Learning. It’s a universal experience - something we do all the time, whether we are aware of it or not. Most of us think of learning as being that activity we undertook at school or college and our beliefs regarding our ability to learn are usually established in those locations and applied to our lives outside. However, what most educational establishments failed to incorporate – or, to be fair, weren’t aware of – was that each of us learns in a different way. For example, some people find that they learn better by reading about the subject, others by hearing the words out loud. As a result, those of us whose learning style was the same as that adopted in schools, flourished. If not, we usually compared ourselves, and were compared by others, to the successful students, and then considered unable to learn. Equally, our ability to learn has nothing to do with intelligence or age. Think about learning to drive. Success is not dependent on how many GCSEs we have. Seventeen year olds are just as likely to pass their test as 40 year olds. And we have all heard of 80 year olds getting degrees. What you will find is that successful learners are more likely to believe they can succeed and to be more motivated to do well. However, there are a few things we can do to make learning more successful, irrespective of our learning style. Identify what our objective is before we start the session. It might be to know another way of speaking in the past in French or German; it might be to get to grips with an aspect of Word software. Be motivated to succeed. Have in mind what we are going to be able to do with the information we take in during the session; how it is going to benefit us; how our life is going to change because of what we have learnt. Don’t be put off by apparent ‘failure’, if could just be down to your learning style. Think of a small child, when it’s learning to walk. It falls down as many times as it stands up, but that doesn’t stop it from trying again, often in another way. It is determined to move itself from A to B under its own steam and that goal keeps it trying until it has succeeded. Finally, it has been found that most people learn better when they have their right ear to the speaker! Try it out – see how it works for you. Remember that we are each unique and that although one way of learning might work for one person, it won’t necessarily work for us. One reason the child succeeds is that it is not comparing itself with others and how they learn. Play around with different techniques until you find the one that works best for you. Practitioners of Neuro Linguistic Programming believe that all learning is state-dependent. If you are in a relaxed state when you learn the information, you should get into the same relaxed state when you need to get it back. One way to do this is to go into ‘peripheral vision’. Focus comfortably on a point on the wall in front of you. Relax and breathe easily. Then, whilst still looking at the point on the wall, gradually become aware of what is at the edge of your field of vision. Finally, move your gaze down to your books or to your teacher, whilst still keeping peripheral vision, and start the process of learning. Then, when you want to recall information later, in an exam, for example, go into peripheral vision again and see how easily the information comes back. Bear in mind that learning is not an ordeal so make it fun. Your learning style might include having music playing in the background, or it might be making yourself comfortable on the settee rather than sitting at a desk. Whatever works for you, do it!. And remember, you learn something new every day! For further information, please contact Elaine Morrisroe, aspire achieve, 01905 729630/Elaine@aspire-achieve.co.uk.

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