Pour some concrete into your shoes. Or attach a 20 lb. ankle weight on each ankle. Take a sentence:
Jacob was born on Sept. 29, 2011.
Walk to Jacob. It will take a while because of the weight. Feel the weight. Drag yourself over there. Touch Jacob on the shoulder. Now walk back over to where it says “est né – was born” behind you on the board. Put your hand on the structure as you get reps on it. Feel how heavy your feet are.
Now muster up some energy and drag yourself over to the color/number chart in the same way. Point at the 29. Now trudge with that deep and heavy weight back to the board. Put your hand on the month, septembre.
Do the same thing with the 2011.
If circling the entire sentence around four times while doing all that walking with all that heavy weight in your legs below your knees takes less than two minutes, they you are going too fast for a beginning class.