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How to utilise your whole brain when you learn..

21/7/2020

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Isn’t it interesting when you learn something easily and quickly – have you noticed how you do it? It is usually because you are interested in the subject and/or have a strong motivation to learn.
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 of the other reasons is that you have involved your whole brain in the learning process. This means you are activating the left and right hemispheres as well as your limbic system, consciously or subconsciously, in the learning process.
Think about when you can’t stop singing a jingle or a popular song.  Words are connected to sound and the whole song often has an emotional tie – this is using all 3 parts of your brain effectively.

The left brain is logical and deals with numbers and words. It sees individual details on at a time and deals with order, facts and logical thinking. 
The right brain is visual and sees the whole picture at once. It uses symbols, images, melodies, patterns and imagistic and intuitive thinking.
The limbic system plays an important part of our long term memory. It decides if information is relevant and useful to you, based on its emotional appeal. When what you are learning appeals positively to your emotions, through colours, pictures, games, challenges or musical accompaniment, you learn better and remember more easily.

By deliberately using all three parts of our brain, we remember much more easily…


So, if I am helping someone to learn a language – what do I do?
Firstly, you need to visualise yourself speaking your language fluently.  Let your visualisation have the ‘wow’ factor. Everytime you ‘see’ yourself, get excited.  The visualisation MUST have emotional triggers to work. Contact VLLC to help you learn a language with your eyes closed and utilise your whole brain. 

Jo Ammerlaan, National Manager VLLC and Master NLP Practitioner

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5 ways that learning a second language can enhance a child's mental development.

8/7/2020

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Research carried out during the last few years has shown that learning a second language, regardless of gender or race, can enhance children’s overall mental development. This results in increased language skills, self-esteem, thinking and reasoning skills and maths ability plus earlier reading. For example:

Maths: a second language increases the ability to solve complex problems

English: a second language increases the vocabulary available to a child. This results in both languages reinforcing each other, giving the bilingual child an edge over their mono-linguistic contemporaries. Children can learn much about English by learning structures and words in other languages.

Parents report that their children are learning a third and fourth languages more easily, particularly when the new language shares a similar alphabet or language structure. Research has also shown that bilinguals develop superior writing and reading skills.

Learning another language has been shown to enhance cultural understanding. Being able to speak to people from different countries and cultures exposes the child to different ways of thinking, different attitudes, habits and views. It also opens new doors. As a result, children learn early on that there is more than one way to everything.



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Bilingual children, in another study, who had been exposed to a second language from an early age proved to have a greater density of grey matter, i.e. that part of the brain which is responsible for processing information, including memory, speech and sensory perception. By providing your child with the opportunity to learn a new language, you are giving them a gift that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.

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Using Music to enhance Language Learning....

1/7/2020

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Whole brain thinking (using both left and right hand sides of the brain) is important in moving from a ‘traditional’ learning approach to accelerated learning.

Accelerated learning techniques can help the learner reach a comfortable, relaxed, yet alert alpha state of mind – receptive and open to new material and new ways of learning.  You can accelerate any learning that you want to do – you need to learn how!!

Learning enhancement methods used in accelerated learning include music,relaxation/breathing, visualisations, affirmations, colours and mind maps, activities.


Today’s blog focuses on Music….

There is nothing new in using music to bring about an altered state of mind. Baroque composers used music in creating a relaxed state to take the mind ‘off’ day to day concerns and transform the listener into a harmonious state of well-being. In the process these composers created an ideal form, harmony and frequency in their music that produced the alpha state of calm, relaxed alertness (ready to learn and remember).

Throughout time, people have recognized and intentionally used the powerful effects of sound. In the 20th century the western scientific community has conducted research to validate and expand our analytical knowledge of music. This research supports what we know from personal experience: Music greatly affects and enhances our learning and living!

The use of music and rhythm can directly stimulate the limbic system within the brain. Stimulating the emotions greatly enhances our long term memory capacity. The use of colours, smells, rhyme and tone can also stimulate the limbic system.

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Music stabilizes mental, physical and emotional rhythms to attain a state of deep concentration and focus in which large amounts of content information can be processed and learned. Try listening to some Baroque music, such as that composed by Bach, Handel or Telemann,  that is 50 to 80 beats per minute to create an atmosphere of focus when you are doing your lesson.  This is highly effective when you want to learn vocabulary, memorize facts or reading in your new language – you will find it highly effective.

But as Jeffry Hodges points out in Learn Faster Now… “If you don’t use the correct type of music with the very specific slow rhythm and 4/4 beat, the desired physiological and mental changes will not occur and learning will not be as effective”.

Have a try and let me know how it works for you..  Michele

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How learning a language can change how you see the world.

1/7/2020

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Speakers of more than one language have the capacity to “place different emphasis in actions and their consequences, influencing the way they think about the world” according to a new study. The study also finds that bilinguals may get the best of both worldviews, as their thinking can be flexible. This can be really beneficial in the work environment.

It’s interesting when you do some research into the benefits of acquiring a second or third language. When a person is able to “think” in a new language they have the advantage of being more aware of certain features of the world. Some scientific examples in the past included that “Russian speakers are faster to distinguish shades of blue than English speakers; Japanese speakers tend to group objects by material rather than shape and Koreans focus on how tightly objects fit together”.

Current scientific examples now reflect that a second language can play an important unconscious role in framing perception, of which the authors conclude that. “By having another language, you have an alternative vision of the world,” Panos Athanasopoulos says. “You can listen to music from only one speaker, or you can listen in stereo … It’s the same with language.” 

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In a quote from Charlemagne "To have another language is to possess a second soul", and in Benjamin Lee Whorf who said "all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar". Becoming multilingual at an early age teaches children that there is more than one way of conveying something, and accordingly, more than one way to evaluate and solve a problem.

Vocational Language Learning Centre (VLLC) focuses on teaching language through picture-sound association so that when you are conversing you don’t “translate” from one language to another and you are able to “Think” in your new language from day one.  It makes the experience of learning quicker than traditional models and also interesting as you are using different parts of your brain. Do you want to find out more about the VLLC learning model? Contact us today and have a chat with one of the course coordinators….

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Reference:  http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2015/03/speaking-second-language-may-change-how-you-see-world
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