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The best English academy is one that is capable of identifying the daily evolution of its students and providing activities to accelerate their learning. Today, technology allows academies to be like GPS that manage to locate their students and propose the best learning route.

An academy not only allows students to be grouped and offers lower prices, but also has a greater capacity to invest in learning acceleration technology. The price of an academy, for groups of 1 to 3 students with learning acceleration technology, should be around €9/hour.

We can identify a good English academy if when asking one of its students how to say chocolate in English, they produce something similar to Chóclet. If the answer is similar to chocoleit. run away!

The most important thing that an English academy must offer is that it can store information about its students regarding their learning in order to focus on their evolution. If they do not offer this option, the teaching proposal can become chronic.

How do you know what I know and what I have left to learn? If the answer is with quarterly exams, run away. The evolution of the students must be daily. And the amount of information that is collected is of such magnitude that it can only be managed with the use of technology. Here is the key to accelerated learning.

The most important thing that English academies should explain to you is that the secret to learning a language is not in the hours you pay for, but in the number of hours you must expose yourself to the language you intend to learn. With this, students should understand that a language is learned by itself, an academy is NOT needed to learn it. So, what is an English academy for? To speed up the learning process. A rule that works for our students is 10% / 90%. For example, an exhibition of 9 hours a week with movies, series, songs, talks in English, must be complemented with 1 hour a week with teachers who accelerate learning. With this rhythm, in 1 year and a half you should speak English without problems.

It should be, but only if the academy is capable of recognizing the daily evolution of its students with the use of technology. Talking about what has been done over the weekend, completing some exercises suggested by a book, or resorting to translation when a student gets stuck, is not very effective. If a student has been trying to learn for more than 5 years and is not able to follow a conversation without problems, we can affirm that the proposed strategy has not been successful, or else the student has not understood what it should do.

Despite the widespread belief that a private teacher can better adapt to the needs of a student, we can affirm that this is false, in that in order to identify the real needs of a student, a technological system is required that saves the result of all the interactions with it, and to be able to identify what remains to be learned and translate it into the best activities for it to learn. A private teacher with this technology could be as competitive as an academy using the same technology. However, if we understand language learning as interaction, being able to communicate with other people and with multiple teachers with different accents, makes an academy always the best option.

Of course! But only if the academy is used as a complement to an exposure to English that can be achieved with movies, talks, songs, which should be 90% of the total, leaving the academy to take care of only 10%. This 10% should serve to accelerate learning that provides you with the remaining 90%, which should be individual. You don't learn more by paying, you only get to learn faster.