--- title: Our Approach description: At OCTB, we believe that one-on-one interactions with native speakers is essential in order to learn a world language. But it's much more than just a chat. image: https://www.octb.us/hubfs/Background-5.svg --- [![Overcome the Barrier](https://www.octb.us/hs-fs/hubfs/logo-blue.png?width=2839&height=439&name=logo-blue.png "Overcome the Barrier")](https://www.octb.us?hsLang=en) Open main menu Close main menu - [Try now](https://platform.octb.us/individuals/appointment) - [Our Tutors](https://platform.octb.us/individuals/appointment) - [Our Approach](https://www.octb.us/our_approach) - [Testimonials](https://www.octb.us/testimonials) - [Login](https://platform.octb.us/individuals/) # Our Teaching Approach We believe that the fastest and most effective way to learn a foreign language is through one-on-one interactions with native speakers. With today's technology it's never been easier to get connected via video chat with excellent native speaking teachers at the fraction of what it would cost otherwise. But one-on-one classes with OCTB are not just chit-chat. Our platform identifies from each learner exactly what he/she needs to improve on. Let's explore how languages are taught at OCTB. ![Background (17)](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/Background%20(17).svg "Background (17)") ### One-on-one Interaction from anywhere & anytime You can take a class from anywhere at any time. All you need is a decent internet speed and either a smart phone, a tablet or a computer. The instructor connects with the student via a free video conferencing app like Google meets or Zoom, and at the same time they use the OCTB platform. ### Instant Feedback When we are learning to speak a foreign language, we can hardly remember what we said just a few minutes ago. But with OCTB, the instructor transcribes everything the learner says during the conversation into our platform, and then goes over the transcript and makes the corrections. This helps the student visualize his mistakes, and remember the corrections made to his own words. ![teenagers](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/teenagers.gif "teenagers") ![Corrections](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/Corrections.gif "Corrections") ### Seeing is believing As the instructor makes the corrections in real time, the student remembers much faster the correct way of what he intended to say. This also helps the learner gain confidence a lot faster, because he realizes that he was understood by a native speaker despite having made some mistakes. ### Personalized Content When the instructor corrects the student, the platform registers all the data, and then creates personalized homework for the student based on the mistakes that he made during the class. The platform automatically grades the homework upon completion and the parent or teacher can easily verify whether it has been completed or not. ![hw](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/hw.gif "hw") ![group of employees looking at screen](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/7528309/raw_assets/public/mV0_hubspot/session/images/employees.jpg "group of employees looking at screen") ### Privacy If you wish, you can have the lessons automatically recorded on each learner's personal computer. We recommend using this option when lessons are conducted for children. This is very easy to set up and we will walk you through it. ### Lesson-by-lesson progress reports We simplified how to measure progress by tracking how fast the learner is speaking from one lesson to another, as well as the reduction in his error percentage. If the learner starts to speak faster while at the same time making less mistakes, that means that he is improving. ![Background (23)](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/Background%20(23).svg "Background (23)") ![Background (24)](https://www.octb.us/hubfs/Background%20(24).svg "Background (24)") ### Lesson Review After the lesson, the student will be prompted to complete the homework that the platform generated based on the lesson he just completed. There is an exercise to go over the corrections that the teacher made, and a vocabulary exercise to practice the new words that he/she learnt. ### Supporting Data Over the last 10 years we've been providing corporate language training to large multinational companies like IBM, GE, DHL, CAT, Federal Mogul among many others, and we have supporting data from every lesson of every learner that has ever taken a class using our approach. 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