Assessing the Berlitz approach to foreign language study 5 Articles

by Thos Robert

The Berlitz approach to teaching foreign languages is nearly universally regarded as wrong-headed and out of date with what is known about how people learn and how the brain processes foreign languages. In the beginning...read more

by Belinda Youlten

The Berlitz approach to foreign language study came about initially by accident. German immigrant Maximilian D. Berlitz was a professor teaching French and German at the Warner Polytechnic College. He employed a French...read more

by Morgan Drake Eckstein

The strength of the Berlitz method is the fact that it immerses you in the language. It simulates how you would learn a language if you traveled to that country, or if you were a child learning that language. Unfortuna...read more

by Les Zsoldos

The grammar-translation method, a method which overemphasizes grammar and does not use the target language sufficiently, has been proven to be an ineffective method. Some students may feel comfortable with the approach, b...read more

by Bryan Greifinger

Not really knowing any languages, but realizing how "I" learn best and that noone learns everything the "same" way, I fail to see how this one method can be used for "all" cases. Some people are visual in learning, some a...read more