I am multilingual, I speak English, Chinese (in 3 different dialects), Malay and Russian very fluently. I just want to see what your opinions are.
2006-12-14 05:27:19 · 18 answers · asked by Aleckii 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Immersion in the language, living in another culture is, hands-down, the best way. It's also the most disruptive to your life, and few can do it.
If you're learning on your own, some general tips for learning languages:
1. Look at people's reviews on Amazon to determine what are some of the best courses.
2. Go to the library and check out different types of courses, and see what works for you best.
3. Put aside 30 - 60 minutes per day and study some each day.
4. If you get discouraged, take a couple of days off, but set your next time to study and stick to it. If you go too long (say a week) between study sessions, you'll start forgetting.
5. Go into the experience realizing that you'll make lots of mistakes, everybody makes mistakes everyday, don't worry about them and keep going.
6. Try to find someone better than you in the language to speak with. You can't learn to speak a language without speaking it. If you're trying to learn with someone else who is also learning, you'll lead each other into learning errors.
2006-12-14 09:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by rbwtexan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I found out French in top institution, which of direction has grew to become out to be valued at rien de tout. My spouse found out Spanish and he or she makes use of it rather in most cases considering that we run into increasingly individuals in this day and age who're Spanish talking. She will get a kick out of it too since it's this sort of voluptuous and lengthy-winded language. It's a laugh to talk. We actually have a pal who made an attractive well dwelling in Kyoto a few years in the past after he found out sufficient Japanese to provide English classes to businessmen. But with pc language-translation and voice-consciousness techniques getting greater and greater always, I marvel how lengthy it'll be earlier than there might be hardly ever any call for for human translators.
2016-09-03 14:23:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used the Berlitz course to learn Spanish and really liked it. I had tried a number of tapes that didn't seem to really help, but the Berlitz method, where you simply listen to conversations with some little hints put me on the track pretty quickly. It was almost like a game...trying to decode the language. It made things stick alot faster than the tapes that were just memorization...saying a word in English and then Spanish, etc.
2006-12-14 05:32:02 · answer #3 · answered by Robert A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most efficient way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in a community that only speaks that language forcing you to pick up on the dialect being used.
2006-12-14 05:35:09 · answer #4 · answered by Compurednek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to learn another language is by trying speaking by trying learning the language in a daily routine to person who has the language you want to learn as mother tongue. So you should make nice friends from different forign countries who have different languahges as their mother tongues. Learning a language by using languagec courses, dictionaries, and grammer books are secondary ways to learn more of a language. Thats my personal and 100% fair openion.
2006-12-14 06:02:36 · answer #5 · answered by :) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immersion in the language works best. For children and youth, I recommend the Concordia Language Villages http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org/, for adults, I'd recommend the summer program at Middlebury College http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/
2006-12-14 05:29:30 · answer #6 · answered by ndtaya 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Taking a class is of course one option try the intense short term classes that will have you fluent in like a year. You could also try watching foreign language TV with English subtitles, that is how I learned some Korean.
2006-12-14 05:29:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Immersion...I speak English, French and I am working on Arabic. I plan to go to an Arabic speaking country this summer for complete immersion.
2006-12-14 05:29:02 · answer #8 · answered by frenchy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Move to the country that speaks the language you want to learn. The best way to lern is to be fully engrossed in that language and culture.
2006-12-14 05:28:42 · answer #9 · answered by Mike 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dobry den! a private, native speaker tutor was the only way to go for me. I studied on my own with flashcards and talking my dog's ear off all day.
2006-12-14 05:30:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋