It should be...

Learning a language should be a light activity. It shouldn't be stressful or make you feel bad for making mistakes. It ought to be natural, fun, include discovery & self expression. Have you seen a child learn how to talk? They make connections with wide eyes, curiosity and laughs. Children don't learn to speak their 1st language in desks at school. They learn by being around the language and then trying it out. Activities that help them learn best use music, pictures, fun & the arts.  

Language lessons shouldn't be long and boring. Modern brain-based educational research shows learning sessions are most effective when they're a series of shorter activities made to fit the average attention span. Sessions should be made with the different learning styles kept in mind. After all, you may learn best by seeing pictures and maps, while your fellow group member benefits most by hearing a song or dialogue. 

Each day is packed full of opportunities to practice, if you set it up right. Learning needs no set schedule, no classroom, no workbook & or pencil in hand to happen. You can learn to use each situation you're in as your language learning time. For starters, read everything you see in English when you see it. For example, read the back of your shampoo bottle in the shower, all those little signs in the public restroom, magazine titles when you're stuck waiting in line, and the words on the cereal box aloud to your children. Speak to your cat only in English. Listen to audiobooks when you're cleaning your kitchen. Then, join us, your group and practice. All day can be your lesson time. Let it be ongoing!

Getting an English learner book is a great way to learn, but using the materials and media that actually fit in with what interests you most, at the moment, could be way better. Perhaps you like home design, cooking or vintage corvettes. Transfer your interests over to English forms of them. Instead of watching YouTube videos in your 1st language, watch them in English. Find new people who like what you like and then follow their blogs, vlogs and social media accounts. Get a magazine in English on your favorite topic and then read it during your normal reading time. It'll suck you in and you'll soon be begging to know what the words mean. You'll reach for your phone to translate the word from pure excitement and 'ba-boom' your vocabulary and your brain pathways will be growing! Just wait! You'll soon see linking English to your authentic intrigues will benefit you.

Language is all about connection. To navigate in an English-speaking environment you will need to talk to other people. There's just no way around that! So, the more you practice, the more natural it will be for you. Perhaps, you are looking to converse with ease at work, the store, or with neighbors.  Wherever you're looking to connect, having other people to practice with and test out your new words on is key to your language growth. Your practice group is perfect for this! In a traditional class, time for listening and conversing is limited. However, here, at WCCA, that is the point and its the focus of your group. So, If you need English practice and want to connect with others, this program has been made for you.  

You're a rainbow of emotions, interests, thoughts, memories, beliefs, stories & experiences. You're both complex and simple. All of us are. Each one of us is unique, none of us is the same as another. Even more, none of us are one emotion all the time. We swing from one feeling to another, using different words to express those and different degrees of tone. Therefore, your English learning should celebrate and amplify that. How? By using role play, humor, art, and acting dialogues. These communication mediums will let you use language in useful & practical (and at times, in hilarious) ways that perhaps you wouldn't get to explore otherwise. Your whole self will be expressed. Not only will it be critical to your expressive language growth, but it'll also be beautiful fun.