Parallel Learning

Parallel Linguistic

Parallel learning of Verbal structures

This is a different concept for learning languages. It allows to learn more than one language at the same time (parallel)  or short time one after another. This copies the way bilingual children learn parallel.  The parallel learning applies learning of verbs, tenses and words at the same time (parallel).

The focus is on the most frequent conversational structures.  The priority of grammar  is given to only few tenses which are introduced at the same time and repeated with each exercise. The vocabulary is to be built gradually with the exercises.

 Instead to learn first  words, and then gradually get to tenses and more complex grammar in this method I use the natural way of learning the mother language.

This method is not practical for people planning to learn a language for professional use, althow it may be used as a start for further learning.  Instead it is for people who need to get basic communication skills for a short time.

The lessons don’t have to be learned on the proposed order – they may be used on random order. Each lesson contains vocabulary and grammar from the other lessons.

Several notes about this method:

- The target is not to “learn” a language but to get basic communications skills

-  The way to learn a language is to limit the vocabulary use to the most common words in the language

-  The vocabulary is to be limited to a certain number of words for each age group.

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule)  states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. 80% of our daily conversations are based on 20% of the words we know. Therefore we focus on this 20%.

Following the 80 – 20 rule we suggest for beginners to learn just 300 words but from the list of the most common used words.

An example: when we have to learn the known “game” witch is in the list 400-500, we look for a verb to combine from the list top 200, for example : play, or “to be”, top 10  The traditional way to learn a new word is to repeat it aloud several times and to write it at least 10 times. Our method always focuses on words ranked high. So we form the following sentences with a verb that logically corresponds to the noun we have to learn.

The game is nice. Let’s play a game. She plays the game.

Now we put the sentences in past and future tens. So we got 9 sentences. We used the word “game” 9 times, 6 times the verb “to be”, and 3 times the verb “play”. But the most important practice was the use of past, present and future tenses. The exercise goes on with other similar combinations of new words and the same  verbs. Suppose that on the following day the student forgets the word “game” but he will definitely remembers at least some of the forms of “to be” and “play”.