Please check this short review that I wrote yesterday. =) Short review of The Whole Brain by Bern Kamps The author summaries in a short book (82p) his personal knowledge about language learning. The book is divided in quick chapter touching themes like learning vocabulary, listening, reading, memory and retention of information, and teachers. The most on point idea of the book is that the most critical skill is vocabulary. Learning vocabulary should be, according to the author, the 60% to the 80% of the effort of learning a language. The developing of the other skills like grammar or speaking are seen like less important aspects in terms of difficulty. The other critical skill is listening or recognition of the target language's sounds. For related language as romance languages, it will take five hundred hours of learning to learnd not related vocabulary. On the other hand, the listening skill requires one thousand and five hundred hours and it's not related to the difficulty of the language. Another key point for the author is the role of teachers. Since he believes that all the skills can be learned for the students by themselves, the role of the teachers can be: 1. Teaching grammar to beginners. 2. To be a coach to the student In the coach role, the professor will have to supervise the improvements of the students, suggest bibliography and materials, and to create custom plans. This remains me the image of a personal trainer in a gym. However, the student should have ten classes at the beginning of the tutoring and since the fourth month, the professor should be only seen once or twice every month. Conclusions The book is addressed to students who are looking to be completely competent in the target language. Some advice is especially useful for learners that are a little bit of dependents of traditional learning with the unfavorable bad habits of that type of learning (Excessive technical knowledge and low levels of listening and vocabulary). The relavance of the vocabulary seems to be more than reasonable.