Teacher Training

Sometimes we just need someone who sits down with us and helps us communicate.

Three Principles of Lessons with Lingophant:

  • Speak only the target language. 80% of what you say should be said slowly and about helping the student understand and respond.
  • If you hear mistakes, help with the correct version. Show the student you’ve understood them. Confirm your understanding feels good, and if you repeat it the correct way they will hear it.
  • Create recordings of new words and phrases. Show initiative for recording phrases. Students should leave a lesson with 30-40 new phrases to practice until next week.

How to record and share phrases?

[App Recording]

Record phrases and they will be automatically transcribed and translated.

You can then select and share phrases to upload and get back a link.

Send this link to students and they can download your phrases onto their phone for local practicing.

A language lesson can feel like a trip into a foreign country. Visualize, tell stories, read texts together. Share your screen and search for photo’s. Visit Google maps. Read cool articles. Describe situations and play through them theatrically.

For your first lesson, we have you covered:

  1. Quickly introduce yourself to each other and compare your interests and experiences. Write down interests and situations for future lesson content.
  2. Open and share a Google Doc. Read and agree on the three principles at the top. Use this as your notebook.
  3. Now just speak. And for complete beginners: We suggest some first phrases for your student. You can paste the following suggestions into the Google Doc:
Click here for the text you can put into a Google Doc. (Includes phrase suggestions for beginners)

Before every lesson, agree on the following:

  1. We only speak in <target language>. Speak slowly and let’s help each other formulate thoughts.
  2. When the student makes mistakes, the teacher repeats it the correct way for the student to hear it.
  3. Create voice recordings on the app whenever you think it is useful. Each lesson should result in 30-40 phrases that will be practiced later. Both student and teacher are responsible for recordings.

3 situations and 3 topics of interest:

<add here>

Recording suggestions – 5 Basic Greetings:
Greetings in different ways (formal, for friends, for everyone, weird ways, and some goodbyes).

Recording suggestions – 7 Clarifications:
Can you speak in <lang> please?
Speak (much) slower please.
Can you record that for me?
Can you repeat that?
Can you repeat that the correct way?
Was that correct?
How do I say … in <lang>?

Questions and Answers

Q: Do I record during or after the lesson?

A: Both works well. If you write down phrases during the lesson, you can record them afterwards. You can also record them during the lesson, when you repeat sentences the correct way. Most important is that you send phrases directly after the lesson, because it’s too easy to postpone or forget about it.

Q: Are you doing something with the phrases I record?

Nope, as you can read in our privacy policy, we take your data very seriously. Voices and sentences people learn are very personal. We don’t look at phrases, unless you actively gave us permission for it. The database access is well-protected and the password is not shared within the company.