Hyperreal

A child partly learns the language by listening to the “grown-ups” talking to each other …{snip} … I still think there must be a better way than throwing all these different variations at us, but the present Intermediate class system does definitely work.

Yep, you’re right, but we still teach children simple words, then more complex stuff, bit-by-bit, year-by-year, until we’re subjecting the poor kids to the baroque version of the language as it was in Shakespeare’s time.

When learning a foreign language we don’t try to learn it all in one go just by listening and talking to native speakers, instead we learn the important but simple stuff first, then more complex stuff, like different verb tenses, and so on. The Italian classes I went to have five different levels. (I only managed level 1. )

So it would make sense to teach dancing in this manner – except you can’t really do this when you want to teach all the different levels at the same time.

I think I understand why Ceroc does it this way, but rather than go on at length, I’ll just leave it at that. I do hope though that there’s a way for me to augment the intermediate classes with some simpler beginner-intermediate training, perhaps via workshops.

I’m sure that I’d eventually learn pretty much everything I’d want to through intermediate classes, but I can’t help thinking I could optimise the process by working from the foundations upwards. And as I’ve said a few times before, I can be very impatient. evil:

Cheers!