The LIVE Method

Ott Ojamets

The LIVE© Method is a complete language learning solution – a combination of an e-book and a web environment – that gives you everything you need to learn more than 20 languages in a really efficient and enjoyable way. Its powerful and innovative approach uses your personal interests, goals and individual strengths in a unique and optimized way to give you fast and lasting results in language learning.

Ott Ojamets

The LIVE Method

INTRODUCTION

First of all – welcome! You are reading the LIVE-method. It´s an innovative language learning solution that gives you everything – every tool and all the knowledge that you need to learn basically any language out there. There are more than 25 languages in our language selection at the moment and we are adding new languages constantly.

The LIVE-method is a combination of an e-book and a web-environment. The e-book is like a guide that will direct you to the goal of efficient language learning and it will teach you to use all these learning tools and materials that you will find in our web-environment.

ItВґs important that you understand the foundation and the main ideas of this innovative learning system before you start using it, and therefore we will first explain you where this methodology comes from and what its foundation is. All this to make sure that we are on the same page before you start with specific learning steps.

WHY A NEW LANGUAGE LEARNING METHOD?

Often when learning we mimic the actions of others, and we presume that it’s the best way. But that is not always the case. This same principle also applies to learning languages. If you want to learn languages fast and efficiently then you actually have to do things very differently and the following book will be your guide in this journey.

I’ll describe in a few words how this methodology was conceived and the main reasons for publishing this book in the first place. 10 years ago I went to university to learn French and Spanish. Before that I had also studied several languages, but never acquired the level that I was hoping for. At university the learning process was also pretty slow, and because of that my motivation dropped to zero – I had the feeling that I was no good at memorizing words, understanding French dialogue (which to my ears sounded like Chinese for a really long time) and languages altogether were something really hard, not playful, interesting and natural, as they actually should be.

I remember studying Spanish in a group with 15-20 students and consequently I only got a really basic level after learning the language for 2 years and I was never really into it. Despite the fact that I wanted to speak in Spanish, for some reason the learning experience in the classroom didn´t engage me – so I felt down and lost hope of speaking fluent Spanish some day. I´m sure that you have felt the same at some point in your life and you can really relate.

A few years later – after researching about innovative language learning, to be better at languages myself – I understood that the feeling of having low motivation for doing the homework and feeling down in general was the direct result of how I was taught – the learning methodology and its foundation was basically built on the wrong values and beliefs, which don´t work with human beings in general. And when I say that they don´t work in human beings, then I mean it literally. The traditional language learning methods don´t take into account how our minds, bodies and psychology work to acquire a language in the first place.

I understood that the way that we learn languages at school and in language schools everywhere – from the US to Japan – is fundamentally wrong and has to be changed to get good results that everybody is looking for.

This was a revelation for me and after having this epiphany I started researching everything there is to know about efficient and innovational language learning. I wanted to understand how we as human beings acquire languages in the most efficient and natural way.