Additional course work

Gallagher Mini Intensive

(For students who can spend all day on it.)

14 hour academic days
(With 8hours to sleep, 3 .5 hr meals, and .5 hours for dressing showering, nighttime rituals)

Foreign Language
-Spend 4 hours a day on a foreign language.
Plus two additional 2 hour sessions during the two weekly athletic "rest sessions."

Week 1

Spend 44 hours a week
on a new foreign language.
Spend 44 hours a week
on a second foreign language

Day 1
Memorize the present tense.
(Also see next line.)


Remainder of Day 1-Day 7

Don't just put in the hours.

By the end of the week you should be able to read any modern material in the language fluently even if you don't know every vocabulary word. You should also have a lot of familiarity with the present tense from learning it and recognizing it in your readings.


Week 2

Approx 2 hours
Memorize the past tense conjugations.

Approx 7 hours
Reading

Approx 35 hours
Study this language for 44 hours this week, most of which should be listening to the audio of the language.
Be sure not to over-use assited materials (ex. Tv with captioning). You need to be able to understand based on the audio alone.
By the end of the week you should be able to listen to and understand most material without the assistance of visual clues even if you don't know every word or tense. You should also recognize many past and present tense usages within the audio based on your learnings

Same for second language

Week 3

7 hours
Reading

7 hours
Listening
Don't just do the hours strategize on how to use the time to progress rapidly.

30 hours
Spend 30 hours writing in each new foreign language.
By the end of the week you should know the regular (aka typical) conjugations for each tense for most words that you would use daily.

Second language.
Same assignment





Athletics
2 hours a day every day but Sunday and Wednsday
-
Week 1
-alternate between cardio days and martial arts days
Kong-fu first
Week 2
-alternate between cardio days and weight lifting
Week 3
-

EDIT NOTES: maybe do a week- by week intensive instead?

Foreign language
Additional micro intensives

Week 4
7 hours
Reading
7 hours
Listening
7hours
Writing

23 hours
(3 for grammar)
(15 for using videos/apps to speak out loud)
(5 recorded hours of speaking practice)




Additional Intensive
Week 5
44 hours reinforcing everything learned.

(If you need structure:
4 hours for
grammar
16 hours for
Speaking
12 hours for
Writing
6 hours for
Listening
6 hours for
reading


Week 6
BEGIN TWO ADDITIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGES WHILE RETAINING PRIORS


Additional weeks are available, with emphasis on begining a new (3rd and 4th) language while maintaining the prior language.

WEEK 1 DETAILED SYLLABUS

Before Term
-obtain 3 or more literary texts in the language

Assignment 1)
Begin to memorize the 400 most common words in the lamguage
Take a test to write in the English equivalents. Get at least 360 correct.
Assignment 2)
Memorize the regular present tense conjugations.
Take a test to list all of the present tense conjugations for two different verbs.
Assignment 3)
Read any material in the foreign langauage. Look up words as desired.
For now, you might seek materials from the same dialect. (For example, Latin American Spanish and Castillian Spanish can be very dissimilar. We advocate becoming comfortable in one versions first. )
Assignment 4)
By around day 5 read at least one short online (or offline) news article in your new language.
Assignment 5)
By around day 6 do at least one online search in your new language.
Prep for shopping?
Looking up pictures for a background?
Searching for additional books of interest?

What are the navigation bottons called? Home? Back? About us? Shopping cart? Search?

The words used may not match the most common translation for the word.
Day 7) competition opens for best translation. This is not an open-book test. You have to work based off of what you already know. The first translation with above 95% score wins. You'll want to have down the basics by today.



WEEK TWO -DETAILED SYLLABUS
Assignment 1)
Listen to a CD for learning the language. If unavailable, watch a couple of youtube videos teaching the language (by a native speaker).
Take note of pronunciation so that you can recognize the words by ear later.
Assignment 2)
Watch tv with voice over and captions in your new language. Try to not rely too heavily on the captioning, which you can likely easily read, but use it if you repeatedly can't connect the sound of the word to a meaning.
If the captioning and voiceover are based on different translations, look for a different show or movie.
Assignment 3)
Try to rely less and less on captioning, turning it off if necessary.
Assignment 4)
Try listening to a native (not necessarily language instruction) youtube in the language.
Assignment 5)
Listen to/watch any of the following:
A cartoon, an educational video in that language (ex. Learn about the planets!), a how-to in that language
Assignment 6)
Reflect and think of things you like to do in general. Find a way to make your new language part of that process.