Why I make a terrible language teacher? - Lýdia Machová | PG 2018

At Polyglot Gathering 2016, Lýdia presented her revolutionary experiment of leading university students of languages to actively work on improving their language skills outside of their lessons, simply by not waiting to be taught, but start learning by themselves ( ). Since then, she’s been applying her methods to hundreds of other people, this time not only students of languages, but basically anyone who wants to get fluent in a language they’ve been learning for some years without success. And the method seems to be working very well. Her way of learning languages requires no talent, no special skills, just a bit of polyglots’ know-how and a good system in one’s learning. Lýdia believes that in this way, almost anyone can turn into a successful autodidact. People who had been struggling with a language even for 20 years, find a way to fall for that language again, spend as much as 10:00 hours a week with the language, and achieve a visible improvement in a few weeks – merely by t