Drive

Spaced repetition is a very strong learning technique.

With a new word: review its sound and meaning every thirty seconds or so for a few minutes.  It is very helpful to recall from memory before each review.  Remember all you can before you look.

Much formal language instruction is passive.  Students basically watch the teacher's show with perhaps some repetition.  There is no respect for student's time and knowledge since the focus is on the teacher's performance; parts of the teacher's show are unnecessary for some and insufficient for others.  Individual participation means almost nothing and progress is not visible.

a sample from intermediate English 

Simple word find puzzles to reinforce the words for each chapter. Like all of our services the learner can save his progress and resume when and where he is ready.

This is a discussion of Thai culture as it relates to learning. 

The focus is on understanding, mitigating the worst, and leveraging the best. 

MyAlly will help you build a competitive international corporate culture.

One part is how the organization deals with problems:

There will always be problems:  There was a blood stain on a sheet in a customer's room.  A delivery was late. etc.

It is common to apologize.  Two very different approaches:

Communication is mostly vocabulary.  Being able to say and understand "men 2 talk the table at together" is fluent.  The grammar is weak but the meaning will be understood.

Building at least a high school level vocabulary is vital.

Our process is heavily influenced by Drive by Daniel Pink  summary  podcast.

Pink details three aspects of motivation: