Accelerate Your English Learning by Getting the First 90 Days Right

This is what the MEF Accelerator course does for your English speaking

Over the last year and a half, I’ve spent a lot of time working one-on-one with coaching clients. I’ve helped them to speak amazing English. Overcome their problems and really use their English in their work and everyday life. All while also perfecting my methods.

And what I’ve found is this —

The best results come from a short, very intensive period of training… followed by a longer, more relaxed (but consistent) period of learning and practise.

The First 90 Days

What matters for the rocket is the first push off the ground. And that’s the same for you. Get the first 90 days right, and from there speaking English is easy.

But if you try to skip this?

You’ll be working from the wrong foundation, and you’ll struggle.

In the Accelerator course, we’ll create a daily English learning plan that is structured, consistent and easy to do based on methods that work. You’ll create an English learning habit so that you get everything right now… then put your learning on autopilot.

Yes, it’ll be hard work and the process is intense. But the idea is to get you a big boost in proficiency, as well as get you absolutely clear about what you need to do after the first 12 weeks…

... then you just have to keep implementing what you’ve learned over time to get better and better and better.

Here’s how it works

MEFA is highly interactive.

It’s delivered as a combination of training sessions once a week (I'll send them every Monday morning), homework to complete (which you’ll need to submit for feedback each week), and weekly live group coaching Q&A calls in case you get stuck (don’t worry if you can’t make each one live – I record them, and you can also ask questions via the email discussion group we use).

This is not an automated course. There's no course website or account to access like most other online courses.

I run everything manually via an email group.

The next available group starts on June 1st.

Here's what you'll do:

• In the first week, we’ll look at the most important change you need to make, as well as implement a “Quick Proficiency Booster” series of exercises and routine changes to get you going as fast as possible (most people have what I call an "imbalance" in their learning that is holding them back, causing them to translate in their heads and overthink everything... we'll break this right from week one).
• In week 2 we begin the process of reconditioning your behaviour. It’ll take more than the week to do this, but the work we do here provides the framework to speaking confident English and making use of every opportunity that comes your way without fear or hesitation.
• In week 3 we’ll get you set up with a structured plan for daily improvement: this is what I call the "Two Track Approach". As part of this, I'll also teach you the 4 main learning exercises my best clients use to learn and practise English effectively, and the exact balance of study and use you need to build English speaking skill rapidly. 
• In week 4 you'll learn how languages work, and the two different "types" of words, phrases and expressions you need to learn to speak well (and which to spend the most time learning, and how to do it). Many people believe you just need to learn more words or study more grammar to improve... but that simply isn't true. This week will demonstrate why, and show you what you SHOULD do instead.
• In week 5 I'll show you how native speakers speak so fluently and naturally using 'chunks' of language, and I'll teach you the exercises you need to use to identify and learn this fluency-building chunks quickly and easily. I'll also introduce you to two tools (both freely available online) I use to gain deep understanding of chunks of English and learn to use them correctly in the real world.
• In week 6 we'll go over which learning materials are best to use, and why things like textbooks, conversation classes and even free YouTube lessons are damaging your English speaking ability. You'll also learn how to use a special technique called "Retrodictive Learning" to boost your improvement speed, and I'll have you take everything you've learned in the course so far and combine it into a highly-effective study routine.
• Week 7 is all about fluency building – you’ll understand the 5 elements of fluency and exactly which exercises are best for improving each element. 
• Week 8 is dedicated to removing your first language from your English speaking so that you (1) speak on autopilot without thinking or translating and (2) speak naturally, without what linguists call ‘negative transfer’ form your first language.
• In Week 9 I show you how to stop making mistakes in English and speak accurately and naturally (hint: the fast and easy way to do this is very, very different to what you've done before - you don't need corrections on your English, or to learn yet more pointless grammar rules).
• In week 10, 11 and 12 we go deeper into your goals, and connect them to your English learning so that you’re not just learning randomly… but actually using what you learn in the real world and improving as you go.

Bonuses

Because MEFA won't officially start until several days (or even a couple of weeks, depending on when you join) I've included some bonus training to get you started. You don't have to wait for these. I will email them to you as soon as you enrol.

These are optional, but will greatly enhance your MEFA experience.

The most important of these RIGHT NOW is:

Bonuses

Because there are a few days before the course starts, there are several bonuses that I'll send you right away by email. I recommend you study these while you're waiting for your run of MEFA to start.

They are:

Bonus #1
"Master English FAST Quick Start" & "The Power of WHY" Training

Why do some people improve in English so fast? What is their secret? And where does their motivation come from?

I'll tell you this: it's not because they're “talented” or “more intelligent than you”.

What they do isn’t magic, and it’s not special.

In more than 13 years of coaching English learners I've noticed something: Most people fail to improve their speaking simply because they're doing the wrong things.

Their learning is random, messy and unstructured.

They heard they should listen a lot… so they listen a lot. Someone told them they should do “shadowing”, so they do shadowing. Another person said they must read the newspaper every day, memorise more vocabulary or study more grammar… so that’s what they do.

Yet, they still don’t improve.

Why?

The answer is simple: they’ve skipped the first, very important step to improving in English. And as a result, they don’t know what they personally should be doing to get maximum improvement for minimum time and effort.

In this event I want you to stop.

Pause.

Take a breath.

And go right back to the start.

You’ll do two things:

1. First, you’ll learn my “Quick Start” guide to mastering English fast [Which I recorded in Taipei Dec 2019].
2. Second, I’m going to have you do the same exercise all my one-on-one and group coaching clients do FIRST when they start with me before I allow then to start anything else [The Power of WHY].

Doing this will help you to:

• Get maximum improvement for minimum time and effort.
• Understand why you lose motivation to improve in English (resulting in constant “start-stop” behaviour).
• Diagnose your personal weak point in English so you know exactly what to fix first.
• Turn every experience you have with English into a learning opportunity.

Now, be warned: this isn’t a “magic pill”.

I’ll teach you some of the same changes I personally made to how I learned Japanese to go from stuck and frustrated, to “forgetting” that it wasn’t my first language (according to the National Service Institute, Japanese is the hardest language for native English speakers to learn - making this one simple change made it much, much easier).

And everything I’m talking about here is part of the same process I use in my coaching programmes with my best clients.

But it won’t necessarily be easy.

But then, the best things in life never are, are they?

Bonus #2
The 432 Exercise

This is an exercise I use to build fluency in specific topics that I desperately need to get right, in as little as 9 minutes.

MEFA Trainee Rick said: 

"Wow Julian, he 432 exercise - powerful stuff. English expressions and a richer vocabulary just bubble up after going through the cycle 3 or 4 times. And my English stays activated throughout the day."

And he's right.

It is IS powerful.

And you'll be getting the 30-minute training to do before the course starts so you can get using it right away.

In the training we discuss:

• What fluency is, how how to build it in English fast.
• What the 432 exercise is, and when you should use it.
• A step-by-step demonstration of the 432 exercise.

I learned this exercise at an Academic Conference I attended in 2013, and when I heard about it I was very surprised. Research has shown this to be a very, very effective way of building fluency in topics fast ... but nobody outside of academic research has ever heard of it.

Bonus #3
"The Lost Event"

A while ago I went digging in my archives to see if I could find something to get you started, right now, related to the MEFA method.

And I found the recording of an event I'd completely forgotten about.

It was the first live event I ever did...

... we didn't sell this or release it to the public, so unless you were at the event this email is the only way you could get it. It goes into detail about my philosophy for speaking high-level, high-quality English.

Bonus #4
English Quick Start: The fundamental principles of learning English, or any other skill, quicker than anybody else

This is a 1-hour 20-minute training I did all the way back in 2014 where I teach you 4 ideas for learning English faster, and to a deeper level.

The content is great, if not a little old looking (my fashion and haircut are, to be frank, embarrassing...).

Bonus #5
Confidence Quick Start: Overcoming the Three fears of great English speaking

This is another 1.5 hour or so training I did in 2014 with embarrassing fashion and hair. In this one, I teach you the 3 most important aspects of confidence when it comes to speaking English as a second language, and how to fix them easily.