Berlitz Method

 

The direct or natural method is basically, the easiest way to learn a different language. And the most effective way to teach it.

The learner is immersed in an environment that make it easy the progress, with everyday sentences as first step during the process.

All the instructions given by the teacher or opinions, conversations, even the most trivial by the students, needs to be in the target language.

The oral communications skills are organized progressively with intensive communication teacher-student. Making emphasized in the correct pronunciation and grammar to share the ideas between them.

The grammar is taught inductively which means that the learner needs to know the grammatical rules first, and then applied the knowledge in a real verbal expression.

One of the most interesting features of this method is that the basic vocabulary is learned with real demonstrations, pictures, etc. Things a student can physically interact with, like dramatize.

In the other hand the abstract vocabulary is taught by association.

For instance:

A group of child in the classroom quickly learn that when the bell rings, class is over. 

The Berlitz method is the better way to learn because is very friendly and stress-free. That shows that mistakes are part of the process.