OUR TEACHING METHOD

The inlingua Method takes a unique approach to language training. Unlike traditional, less effective ways of language training, our highly conversational method is designed to give our students the skills necessary for practical social and professional communication in English. From the very first lesson, you will begin speaking and interacting in English to quickly move toward fluency.

Hands on Learning: Because speaking is the quickest route to fluency, the inlingua Method emphasizes not only understanding the target language, but also speaking it. Our conversational approach enables the student to practice English in a realistic way. By communicating with a native speaker about interesting topics, the student gains the ability to react to and produce English naturally in everyday environments such as the grocery store, shopping mall, restaurant, and airport. This immersion in the spoken form of English will prepare you better than a CD program to interact with speakers of the language in the real world.

Participation: You are invited to ask questions. This allows you to experiment with the structures of English and enables you to be creative and use language in new and interesting ways. Our classrooms are highly interactive and are not like attending a passive lecture. We encourage active participation and spontaneous production of language from our students. At inlingua, you can look forward to never having to read out loud from texts, memorize large vocabulary lists, or write out long translations.

Learning by example: Our principle is to learn by doing rather than learn by analyzing. Knowing how to drive a car does not require knowing how the engine works. Similarly, knowing how a language works is not the same as being able to speak it. At inlingua, we believe that using examples is the best way to communicate and intuitively use the rules of English grammar without getting lost in describing those rules. Our language trainers avoid heavy theoretical explanations and keep grammatical analysis to a minimum because many students tend to “tune out" when learning grammatical rules.