How right is Next Level English for me?
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Helpful user stories
Juliane
Juliane learned English in school but did not work very hard at. She knows she can get all the grammar and vocabulary information she needs on the web. But what she needs is a learning by doing process that works and does not feel like school. The Next Level English private course takes her through a twelve week learning by doing journey in small easy steps.
Gill
Gill would like to improve his English but hates learning with abstract exercises. The Next Level private English course connects everything step-by-step way to three activities he does every day. It does so in a way that motivates him with increasingly complex success experiences that feel real and personal.
Five keys to success
Your level: neither too low nor too high.
If you are a low beginner (A1) this course will probably be too difficult for you. And if your English is already too good (C1/C2) it might not be enough of a challenge for you. The course will be too difficult for you if you cannot understand slow spoken easy to understand English in the videos and during the Zoom webinars. It will be too boring if you have already mastered most of the things you will learn in the course.
Check out this helpful level chart to help you decide. Or, if you need more detail, here is the official CEFR chart in English and in German.
Your need: enough pain to stay motivated.
The more you need English the more your English will improve in the course. Our experience tells us that it might be too difficult to motivate yourself to do what you need to succeed in the course if you do not need English at work or for an urgent private event or relationship.
The following bad 'joke' can help make the point: How do you get an 80-year-old to learn English fast? Get him or her a 25-year-old lover. The point is that it is very hard to change when there is no reason to change. That is, when not changing does not cause enough pain.
Time commitment enough time to turn what you learn into a natural habit.
The more committed you are to practicing at least 5-15 minutes a day the faster this course can help you improve.
Some people say that it takes 21 days to change a habit. For example, if you want to get in the habit of getting up earlier (not forcing your self out of bed after hitting the snooze button 7 times), you need to do it twenty-one days in a row. The point is that what you do not do regularly is very hard to learn, and even harder to make into an automatic habit.
Next Level English breaks English up into small steps that you can practice any time anywhere. But that means that to succeed in the course you need to in fact practice every small step!
Openness: being open to new ways of feeling and thinking about your lived world.
The more open you are to new ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling about your lived world, the faster you can improve your English.
One of the most challenging and rewarding parts of improving your English is accepting that English does not map the universe and does not prioritize what must be communicated the same way as your native language does. Much more than translating your native language word for word into English, improving your English asks you to see, think, and feel about the world in a different way.
Open Next Level English courses for individuals trains this different seeing, thinking, and feeling. That is what makes it meaningful, instead of mechanical.
Comfort and acceptance: comfort making mistakes and accepting help.
The more comfortable you are making mistakes the more likely you are to let other people help you when you do, and the easier it will be to improve very fast in this course.
One challenge to learning a language is that everything happens at once: and you cannot be perfect in everything at once. The only way to focus on what you are learning one step at a time, is to ignore as much of everything else as possible. Next Level English explains and trains this. This works best when you are comfortable making mistakes in steps you have not mastered.
Another challenge is not carrying the burden ‘to be perfect’ all by yourself. When you are speaking English one or more people are involved. This course teaches you how to use the people you are talking with as your teachers. People who are comfortable making mistakes tend to also be comfortable accepting help from others.
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