About myself and my teaching I am a retired college professor. I taught in a small college in Japan and at a community college in Sweden. I am a volunteer ESL teacher here in the US for 5 years. I am writing a book about how to learn a language and how to teach a language. This book has many innovative ideas. The ideas come from my 25 years of experience teaching English to foreigners, here and in other countries. I created a system from this experience and I call it NLLS, Natural Language Learning System. I love teaching and helping people to learn English. When I get a new student, I ask "what are your goals?". Does you want to learn conversational English, write better reports, improve pronunciation? After I know the goals I diagnose the student. What areas need immediate improvement? What needs longer treatment? There are two types of goals. Long-term goals that are successfully accomplished after months of study and short term goals that are successfully accomplished after each lesson. Long term goals take you on a journey that finally gets you to your destination. Short term goals bulid confidence and help to keep away the urge to quit. The problem of confidence! Some students have little confidence in their ability to learn a language. This causes a psychological block that hinders learning. My job is to remove this block. I have several effecient techniques for this task. If you have no physical disablities (deafness etc) you can learn quickly. The NLLS is an accelerated version of the natural way we all learn our native tongues. Taking advantage of the way we humans were designed to learn languages gives the learner a great advantage. Let's learn English the natural way!! John