Daydream believer
Free your mind to fuel your imagination urges Adrian Magson
Adrian Magson
BEGINNERS
I once went on a total immersion language course. My bosses at the time wanted me to absorb Spanish like a sponge, and considered the TI method the best and quickest way of doing it. Effectively, from day one it involved not speaking any English. At all. From arrival to departure each day it was whatever Spanish I already knew (precious little) and an awful lot I didn’t (nearly everything) being thrown at the wall and hoping some would stick and attract more of the same.
I can’t say it worked completely because the course folded after a few lessons and I was moved on to a different priority. I do know I inherited one heck of a headache each day from the stress of trying to think my way around how to phrase something, ask for help – even to reading a menu at lunch in a Spanish restaurant where I swear the waiters had been threatened under pain of muerte not to drop a hint of assistance.