PDL Italian Courses
PDL English and German Courses
Essential parts of our PDL courses
- Relaxation and concentration exercises to improve one’s ability to absorb information.
- Exercises for pronunciation, intonation, rhythm and melody of the language. These allow you to get closer to the language and to improve your pronunciation. You will be able to remember words better and to respond quicker to unspoken intentions.
- Work with poems in order to understand/better comprehend the language, its grammar and vocabulary in its entirety.
- Identification and Projection techniques to break down the feeling of “foreignness” when speaking.
- Exercises and role plays at various levels of communication such as those based on reality, and those of an imaginary basis, dramaturgy, text and pictures. Participants learn to be able to talk about themselves, to react appropriately, to find solutions, to express wishes, to articulate ones opinions, etc.
- Repetition techniques for the language consolidation phase.
- Specially selected techniques are employed to ensure that gestures and the dynamics of the foreign language become part of the learning process.
- Written exercises resulting from the course itself, the applied language used and the needs of the participants themselves.
PDL - new roads to foreign languages
Psychodramaturgie Linguistique (PDL) was conceptualised and developed by Bernard Dufeu in 1977, and has been continuously improved since then. Essential and practical basics of PDL have been borrowed from Psychodrama and Drama principles and processes, and have been specifically adapted for language training.
- Dr. Bernard Dufeu, founder of the PDL Method PDL with Aurora Floridia during the visit of Villa Gelmi.
Live and experience language
In a PDL course, language and culture are experienced in their entirety. The separations between learning and living, of language and the speaker are removed. You will learn to move confidently in any situation in a foreign country. You will also learn to feel and radiate self-confidence when you use your foreign language. This will happen in an amazingly short time, with measurable, and above all, useful success.
Relaxation - movement - action - reflection
A wide variety of exercises increases your powers of reception and provides a relaxed, unforced yet intensive atmosphere for learning. The continuous change from warm-up exercises, to intermediate exercises and then to main exercises – individually, in pairs or as a group - contributes to the absorption and consolidation of learned material and gives the learner security.
Independent - individual - interactive
In no time at all our specially trained PDL instructors will enable you to discuss your own topics and subject matter and to create your own personal way of expressing yourself. You determine your own pace and retain your own style! Genuine conversations are developed spontaneously and intuitively according to the learners’ interests. Grammar, language structure, vocabulary and writing come alive and develop from concretely applied language and the participants’ individual learning needs.
Sound - Rhythm - Expression
Access to spoken language is gained by everybody including beginners from the first day of a PDL course onwards via specific interdependent processes (e.g. the doubling process, mirroring, sequencing, working with masks for pronunciation, as well as “supercharging” and projection and identification techniques). Particular value is placed on intonation, rhythm and melody, as these elements quickly provide a high degree of familiarity with the new language. Within a very short period of time the feeling of strangeness associated with a foreign language vanishes…
Learning means being in motion
PDL is an innovative method of teaching and learning languages. Each person is placed at the centre of language acquisition as an individual and is seen as the central figure in a journey of discovery that is rich in adventure. Learning with PDL is extraordinarily effective and allows you to reach your linguistic target very quickly – it not only makes foreign languages accessible, it also unlocks the basic skills and talents essential for rapid headway in learning. With PDL your abilities to express yourself, to listen and to empathise, to react flexibly and spontaneously, to concentrate and to be receptive are developed, as are your powers of intuition and observation. You can learn a foreign language and simultaneously develop your speech ability!
PDL is communicative learning
PDL courses lay emphasis on the ability and skills which are important for a fast pace of learning. For example, the ability to express oneself, listen, observation skills; empathy, intuition; flexible and spontaneous reaction; concentration and the ability to absorb material.
Small groups and trained PDL teachers make it possible to use the new language and to take on the stimulus of the group without losing individual ways of expression.