The advantages? Cultural, financial, personal satisfaction and vastly enhanced career opportunities The benefits are numerous: visiting a new country, discovering a new culture, often learning a new language, meeting some truly wonderful people, making lifelong friends and normally giving your career a real boost as well! How many of you…

Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are? Here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are? OK…

For me, its the psychology behind acquiring real ease, fluency, comfort and being at home in another language — not just stepping into their shoes and becoming a native, but feeling so at ease that its like putting your slippers on. …

Who wants to spend time with someone they don’t understand, who refuses to accept their way of life, their beliefs, their taboos, their evaluation of socially correct behaviour, their interests, their traditions, their heritage AND their humour! So how many of your really good friends are a different nationality to…

Literally “step into the shoes” of a native speaker in order to pick up the relevant verbal and non verbal aspects involved in producing quality output in the language. OPAL — The magic spell for learning another language… Created and developed by the genius of Yves Thevenot: The OPAL credo…

What’s the difference? Fluency — what does it mean? Is it the language or is it also the culture, values and beliefs? And what is the key? Get by, fluent or bilingual? What’s the difference? Fluency — what does it mean? …

I met the ultimate language fluency chameleon in the creator of OPAL — I had the enormous good fortune to study under, and be trained by, the man himself… Listening to him, watching him, his culture, his attitude, his movement, I swear he is an American, then a Brazilian, then…

You may (or may not) know that I am half Irish — and proud of it! The Irish blood, passions and adventurous spirit runs strongly in my veins which means I tend to turn to Irish authors and such for quotes when writing. …

Improve health, mood and creativity — “The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” – Tony Robbins Read this quote by Tony Robbins again… it is so absolutely and undeniably true! I know…