Origin and evolution of the Method
The Imitum method has been developed according to the research concept of Cool English.
Imitum is based on experience from previous generations of teaching as well as on scientific findings from an American psychologist Paul Pimsleur anda Bulgarian neurologist and psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov. In the 1970’s Lozanov´s method was examined by a UNESCO expert group, which recommended the method as suitable for teaching foreign languages in 1978.
When developing Imitum the principal aim was to find a way in which everybody is able to learn a foreign language. And to learn a foreign language means that a person is able to think in that language without constantly translating to and from his/her mother tongue. A combination of scientific findings with teachers’ and native speakers’ experiences led to the Imitum method, which teaches you a foreign language as fast as your mother tongue was taught to you.
Passing times:
1st generation – a concept of Cool English – 2004
2nd generation – the first teaching and a practical effectiveness measurement of the Cool English concept – 2007
3rd generation – the complete teaching system Imitum - 2008
4th generation – the complete teaching system Imitum online – 2009