By the time www.final-start.com saw the world I had always taken lots of attempts to simplify the way to integrating my students into spoken English not just repeating phrases, but teaching them comprehend that very difference between Russian and English ways to say this or that phrase ever needed. And it used to be a hard but crazily amazing work to define the common things and those different in the two systems of expressing the same idea. In the year 2000 it first came to my mind to give it a weird name of FINAL START. Why did I choose this name? The answer is as simple as to swallow a chocolate bar. On coming to attend my day-time course everyone tried to tell me how long he had been trying to master the language and how much financial and time efforts had been put on the table. Everyone told me the same story: "I have no capability to English..." "I was said to be unable to learn words because of my bad memory..." and all that stuff... They had spent 6 years at their secondary, then 5 years at the University and bever started to speak without feeling displeased by what they ever said. I decided to invent the system based on common software platform to replace myself, who, as you can see, is just a man, and who can't teach all the willing-to-study Russians express their mind as English native speakers do in their countries. So as they had started to learn English many times, I finally hit my fist against the table and got on the project, which I wanted to name their FINAL START in getting to know the language. But the first problem I faced was that I had been taught differently. Step by step, working on the theory folder I came to realize that very major problem. I was in shock as I woke up one rainy night, lightnings outside my window. The only phrase had been just pronounced in my head: THEY ARE ALWAYS TAUGHT THE LANGUAGE PHILOLOGY, BUT NOT THE LANGUAGE ITSELF... That was so simple and so complicated as well... I turned on my PC and started typing equations - NOUN = SUBJECT / OBJECT , VERB = PRINCIPAL ACTION. TO BE = STATE... PERFECT = SAVINGS / REVISING WHAT WE ACTUALY HAVE and many more things my mind was being bobmed with.

What I knew now was exactly what I had always been searching for - USING THE LANGUAGE DOESN'T EQUAL ITS USE! Moreover, I was certain now, that what people used to call CAPABILITY TO FOREIGN LANGUAGES was nothing else but CAPABILITY TO COMMUNICATING IN ANY LANGUAGE INCLUDING THE NATIVE ONE. The matter is there's such a wide assortment of ways in the jazzy fictionfall of the educational market... but the only shortest way being an ultimate solution one has to pass anyway so as to save his both financial and time expences - was the only one. USE AND COMPARE = COMPREHEND. A newcomer to the language should learn to: 1) speak 2) understand 3) realise the language outside his virtual or real studying benchmark.

And all of the things to survive through the language can be found now in FINAL START intensive course which is now available for any Russian-speaking person worldwide who is connected to the global net. They really start speaking from ero to hero... say more... The FINAL START to fluent English speech is available now for every visitor of the system as the first four training modules to start with. SPEAK ENGLISH FLUENTLY not repeating the presenter's voice, but getting it pronounced yourself before he does the same. LISTEN TO FLUENT SPEECH simultaneously reading the English text being displayed after you sy it yourself... CHECK OUT MISTAKES AND GET RID OF THEM! Actually, during the whole training, its duration dependent upon you only, you SPEAK THE LANGUAGE yourself, almost on your own. Verbal function including reception and reproduction, is extendedly active, no matter how long it takes you to get tired. Let's say 30 minutes a day shall get all the most "indefinable" and "inexplainable" models of expressing this or that grammatical devices involved into running-wild fluency. www.final-start.com gives one an opportunity to communicate with other users, upload one's picture and make up a story about what he or she is and what they do in English within one's personal profile as social nets do. All the explainations of the original English-speaking comprehension logic (replacing traditional woodwork flrmula with the so called "intranslatable" auxiliary verbs) are also displayed with their propriately corresponding illustrations and are clear to everyone who ever reads them just once.

Here are the advantages of start with fluent speech promised in the head of the article. So WHY IS IT MORE RELIABLE AND SMART TO START LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITH FLUENT SPEECH?
It's gonna be much easier to later on slow down fluent context speech brought up in training with FINAL START rather than ever try to accelerate the number of initially disconnected from each other - into one idea, each word pronounced separately by the speaker same as accepted by his interlocutor.
When comprehensively connected into one common idea, live speech can be compared to careful pouring water from a jar into a glass, rather than throwing some counted quantity of ice cubes. As a matter of fact, in order to reconnect your separate ice-cubed words back into one liquid idea, it's gonna take the one who you're talking to, some valuable time and power to get them back unfrozen. Meanwhile, your both power and energy are to be wasted in vain to split one idea into lifeless compounds, for some unknown reason.

When speaking a foreign language, think about the one you're talking to. Try to hear yourself by his or her own years. It's truly said, breaking is a good deal easier than sticking pieces back assembled into the source cup. Speech approximates a music album, where each track has its own mood or tense, bandwidth of intonation, tune and rythm. When pausing your speech after each word within each phrase you ever happen to say, just imagine yourself in the shoes of some person listening to music and pressing the stop key every other second. Just think about this comparison for at least ten more seconds.

Grammatically yours,
Oleg B. Ivaniloff.

August 1, 2008

Источник: First published at filolingvia.com