Mike is on a mission to become conversationally fluent in Italian using The Mimic Method. In this video, Idahosa checks in with Mike and discusses a variety of topics regarding Mike’s Mission and language acquisition in general.
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*Show Notes*
2:30 – Recap of Mike’s Stages (Zero to Scripted)
6:30 – Getting to ‘The Shift’ – Spontaneous Conversation
9:00 – Mike’s Strategy in Italy
10:25 – Why in-person conversation is #1
12:10 – Barriers to Conversation (balancing work-life, introversion, shyness)
13:45 – Hacking Shyness
17:10 – Victories
18:33 – Learning Curve of Mike’s Mission
21:18 – Mike gets grilled on ‘The Shift’
26:20 – ‘The Shift’ Explained
27:50 – Black Friday Promo
So I was watching this episode and I had an idea. Currently I’m going through the Elemental Sounds of French that I bought back during this promo (I know, very late on it). It’s really interesting material and I’m learning a lot.
What I was wondering is if you were to provide coaching sessions as well. Maybe a product that you can sell such as “2 Months of Weekly Coaching” or something along those lines. Just a series of 30 minute coaching sessions.
I feel like for many people that would be really helpful, having that personalized coaching available; especially so from someone who is more familiar with the elemental sounds than a regular language tutor.
For some of the sessions, you could even look at the option of posting them the way you did for Mike’s progress, so that anyone who relates more to that learner or is doing that same language can maybe find those little nuggets of information they need to move forward in their target language. I think this would be really helpful to a lot of people.
Hey Aaron! Idahosa has started to do some live coaching on Facebook, follow our page to find out when the next session is: http://bit.ly/2vU1vp7 As well as this, I’ll pass your feedback onto him and see whether this is something he has up his sleeve 😉