APPROACH

Lark Languages’ customized approach is based on four principles that ensure learners' language acquisition success! 

RELEVANCE! 

Lark Languages trainings impart knowledge and skills that apply directly to clients’ every-day lives at work. Language lessons are designed to target the most frequently used vocabulary, grammar, writing and speech patterns for your specific job in your specific industry. Learners do not spend time learning words and constructs that are not pertinent to their goals.  Rather, they focus on the language topics that are the most relevant to the communicative contexts in which they work and thus become masters of the types of communication that really matter to them.

PRACTICE! 

Just like developing skills in math, music or athletics, the more your practice, the more you learn. Lark Languages trainings promote practice opportunities to study opportunities at a ratio of 8:1. Imagine how much more quickly you would learn to swim by getting in the water and doing it 85 % of the time and watching an instructor demonstrate 15% of the time rather than the other way around! The same goes for learning a language: you accelerate your language learning by actually using the language.  Toward that end, we ensure that you receive abundant communication practice opportunities in your target language by offering immersion experiences in and outside the training environment. Whether through interactive activities in the classroom, conversation group meetings at a restaurant or international partner language exchanges, Lark Languages training participants enjoy multiple opportunities to engage with native speakers and exercise their target language skills. 

RELATIONSHIP!

Language trainings are led by instructors who guide you on your language journey by playing the role of facilitator as well as coach. They get to know you as an individual, and in the context of a meaningful mentor-mentee relationship, they orchestrate a learning experience that capitalizes on your strengths and provides maximum accountability to your goals. Prior to your training, we conduct an extensive assessment including skills level evaluation, an interests survey and inventory of your preferred learning styles, then use this data to choose content and methods that will advance you toward your goals from day one! In addition to skills instruction, we offer you strategies, encouragement and inspiration to use as springboards for language learning success.

EASE!

We believe that language acquisition is achieved most efficiently when learning activities fit easily into the routines of learners’ every day lives. Therefore, we help you establish weekly learning habits that move you toward your language goals without taking you away from commitments to work, family or other areas of your life. It may mean that you listen to a Lark Languages training podcast every day for 20 minutes as you enjoy your morning coffee or during your commute to work. It may mean you watch a slowed-speech / subtitled version of your favorite TV series while you do your daily treadmill workout at the gym or relax in bed at the end of the day. It could be that you build vocabulary by incorporating bilingual stories into your children's bedtime routine. Whatever your interests, and no matter how busy your schedule, there are dozens of ways to integrate meaningful learning activities into your daily life so that you achieve your learning goals efficiently. Lark Languages instructors are equipped to help you discover the ways that work best for you!