Our Methodology

Lingua Natal's Unique Methodology

Lingua Natal has developed its own proprietary methodology called Origin™ to achieve the highest quality language acquisition possible. Origin™ provides a unique framework for achieving fluency and is based on the latest research in neuroscience and language acquisition. Origin™ is a “natural approach” to teaching foreign languages, and optimizes the process for intuitive and automatic acquisition by children. With Origin™, language acquisition follows the same natural process of learning one’s mother language and moves infants through adults onto the path to fluency in the target language effortlessly.

 

The steps in the natural process are:

Listening
Comprehension
Speech
Reading
Writing
 

 

Origin™ asserts that to acquire a foreign language:

Comprehension precedes speech production.

Speech emerges as a “natural consequence” of comprehension.

Speech production contains errors but gradually improves as reading and writing skills improve.

Speech production emerges at varying stages.