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- Language Transfer is a language learning method created by Mihalis Eleftheriou that aims to teach a new language in just 20 hours for free. - The unconventional method teaches the structure of a language from a social and cultural perspective rather than focusing on memorization. - Eleftheriou developed the thinking-based approach as an alternative to traditional education systems, believing it allows students to break out of conditioning and think more globally about language learning.

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Language Transfer

- Language Transfer is a language learning method created by Mihalis Eleftheriou that aims to teach a new language in just 20 hours for free. - The unconventional method teaches the structure of a language from a social and cultural perspective rather than focusing on memorization. - Eleftheriou developed the thinking-based approach as an alternative to traditional education systems, believing it allows students to break out of conditioning and think more globally about language learning.

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Language Transfer
A one-man vision to turn you into a language guru in 20 hours for free

by May El Khishen

E
ver been infatuated by a certain more than one part of the world including
country, its people, culture and Argentina, Cuba, Cyprus and now Egypt.
language, but never had the time
or means to travel there? Caught up in
the vicious cycle of the corporate world What is Language Transfer?
and never seem to have time to take that
Spanish course you've been planning to? Eleftheriou defines his teaching method
What if there was a way that you could as "social cultural activism." It promises to
learn a new language of your choice in 20 provide one with an innovative and efficient
hours from the comforts of your living alternative method for learning a foreign
room couch, completely free of charge. language in record time, regardless of age,
Thanks to Language Transfer course, this gender or level of education. "It also looks
is now made possible. at a language from a social and cultural
perspective as well. It provides students with
This ingenuous new method is the an opportunity to venture into learning a
brainchild of the unconventional language new language with a new way of thinking;
expert Mihalis Eleftheriou. Despite having it enables you to realize the conditioning of
earned a degree in teaching from Essex other people from different countries and
University, Eleftheriou has always been backgrounds," he explains.
rebelling against the education structure
and has refused to fall into the trap of con- According to him, education is another vital
fining himself to the traditional teaching methods that establishments element in "how to learn a language" mix. "In other words, a critique
usually resort to. "Regardless of where we grow up, we all live with a of the system through example; so with this method you can learn a
certain set of truths, which involuntarily affect our value system, and I language in 20 hours, as crazy as this sounds. Language Transfer enables
think that to move forward, we need a more global approach to learning. you to learn the whole structure of any language and then you have to
Learning languages is one of the best ways to break out of this mold and work on improving and increasing your vocabulary," says Eleftheriou.
that is why I created Language Transfer."
By resorting to what he refers to as his "thinking method," he steps
Eleftheriou devised this alternative teaching method seven years ago, away from the traditional education system, whereby we are taught to
and ever since has been traveling the world to perfect and make it public memorize and not to think. "We have a huge emphasis on memorizing
to as many people as possible. and we don't think or analyze enough. All babies are born very smart
and curious and then this disappears as one gets older as a result of the
Eleftheriou was born in England to Serbian parents, but has lived in rigid social, education and cultural paradigm we live in," he says.

Eleftheriou in front of his wall with Arabic vocabulary

20 Ct | oct 2012

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