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.
