Culture Language Acquisition (CLA) Methodology

Right now we are in (CLA) Culture Language Acquisition methodology.

We are learning how to learn a language. So this last week our small group had a meal at our house with a Brazilian couple so that we could learn about them and their culture. This Brazilian couple it our “language helpers” for a couple weeks. We took making the coffee, and recorded all that he said in Portuguese about how to make the coffee, so that we could listen and learn all the words for… say “mug”, “creamer” “Water” “pouring the water in the coffee maker” grinding coffee” “scooping coffee” so on and so forth. The point is that whatever language we learn, this is how we will do it. We will just live life with the people, and at the same time will be having a language helper helping us record phrases, and will help us to learn many new words each day. There is a lot more that goes into it, but really it’s very simple, it just takes time.