A book that will change your point of view on how to learn a language. Effortlessly.
Why read this book?
We have an innate talent for languages but we stopped using it as adults
Every one of us learned our own mother tongue. It may have taken us a few years but any healthy child in a normal environment is able to learn their own native language.
However, when we attempt to learn a new language as adults, our efforts often end in failure.
Why is this? Do we lose our ability to learn languages as we age? Not at all.
We have proof that this talent can be activated even when we are adults
According to scientific research, as adults our brains still have access to the same mechanisms that we used to acquire our native language as children.
But for a number of reasons, we simply stopped using them as adults and started learning languages differently.
Discover and activate your natural talent for languages
In this book, we will embark on a journey to rediscover the natural ability for language learning that's inherent in all of us, young and old.
Children learn their mother tongue without any obvious effort, spontaneously, joyfully and successfully.
Scientific research suggests that if adults learn foreign languages in the same way they learned their first language as children, they will also be able to acquire them effortlessly, understand them very well and speak them fluently.
About the authors
Kateřina Chládková
- Researches language acquisition and speech communication in children and adults.
- Studied linguistics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
- Has worked as a researcher at the universities of Utrecht, Amsterdam and Leipzig, where she was also a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute.
- Currently works at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, the Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove and the Institute of Psychology of the Academy of Sciences.
- Runs the SPEAKin lab research group.
- Educates the general public about science. For instance, she appeared on Czech Television in the educational series Zvěd.
Miroslav Pešta
- Is the founder of the Mooveez Company. Its Mooveez app helps users learn languages like children. Effortlessly.
- Is the owner of Kids & Us language schools for children as young as one and ran Stories, an experimental language school that used natural learning methods for adults.
- Studied international relations and psychology and sociology in business management at the University of Economics in Prague.
Adults skip important steps which is why it is so difficult for them to learn languages, unlike for children.
Did you know that...
Imitating facial expressions is important
The brain is able to tune in to the rhythm and melody
You’ll only learn by doing: whether it’s sport or speaking a language
Listen to the language regularly & you’ll learn to recognise it
We are able to learn any language. Like birds that learn to fly.
Writing can’t express how a language sounds
