Language Islands at Level 4 ILR, ACTFL scales)/near-native language proficiency

 


Continuing in what seems to be coming a trend -- we keep coming across videos of readers -- teachers and language learners -- who have fallen in love with  How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately by Boris Shekhtman. The falling in love is not surprising; this book is the darling of diplomats and international journalists, both groups of individuals that Boris spent his life teaching. What is a little more surprising is the number of people who have quietly made videos about the book and its contents -- and which we stumble across upon occasion, such as today. Here is one such video:

How to Use Language Islands to Reach Fluency Faster - YouTube

The book contains seven tools, one of which is "islands." While the assumption may be -- and often is -- that these tools can help improve language proficiency at intermediate and advanced levels, it can also improve proficiency at the very lowest and very highest levels.

With islands (which are essentially completely internalized chunks of speech), the island at upper levels because longer, more complex, and focuses on professional topics like philosophy, political history, social themes, diplomacy, scientific advances and research, and the like.

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