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31/07/2015

How to learn a foreign language. A non academic opinion about how to learn languages.


HERE ARE SOME EXTRACTS WHICH I HAVE FOUND EITHER AMUSING OR THOUGHT-PROVOKING:

....Maybe the most rapid way of learning a language would be to fall in love with someone who is a native speaker of the foreign language, then go and live in their country and have no contact with your own language. After 6 months of such a total immersion most people would be very proficient. .....
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.... If you consider that learning a language is a tedious chore then give up now, don’t waste any more time. Do something you like doing. .....
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.....One of the slowest most inefficient ways of learning a language is in a classroom full of people. School children often spend 10 years learning a foreign language with almost no result. ....   .....The results from adult education classes are a little better but only if the teacher is very good and if you also study outside of the classroom. ....
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Some activities and ideas which can help you learn a language:
-Attend language classes but don’t expect to learn very fast unless you do a lot of supplementary study.
-Use the immense amount of free online courses available on internet.
-Sign up for the “word of the day” offered by many sites.
-Read books which have specially reduced vocabularies designed for language learners.

-Note that Jehova’s Witnesses will give you hours of free conversation classes if you invite them into your house to speak about religion. 

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