which the quickest way to learn a foreign language ?

Question

i mean it,because i heard than some people with money use to learn a language in a period of 3 to 5 months and speak it very well,but i did not hear about the way that they used to learn it.ex: some hollywood stars ,singers etc..

Answer 1

The fastest way is to spend at least 2 hours each day,like I do.
1 hour reading a book,or the newspaper ,looking up for unknown words,1 hour watching TV in the target language.
Make friends who speak it and tell them to help you with harder words and structures you can't find any explanation to in your course or dictionary.
And practice the language everyday ,in your head .
Even talking alone helps.

Answer 2

I'll start with ways to improve language acquisition, then show you a language that will help you learn other languages better than most.

Here are some ideas many second language learners don't normally realize.

FIRST: Completely eliminate idioms when you speak. We use a LOT of phrases that are not understood in other countries, and they use ones we don't understand. Examples: Get to first base. Flip the switch. Hitch a ride. Hit the road.
Put yourself in the place of a new learner of English and ask yourself if you would really understand the meaning of 'hit the road' when you heard it, or would you litterally try to 'hit the road'?
Even between England and North America, for example 'knock someone up'. In North America it means get someone pregnant. In England it means knock on their door. So you can see how embarrassing it might be should you stumble on an idiom that means something else.

SECOND: Realize that it is not ALWAYS a one-for-one word exchange when translating. Some languages can express an idea in as little as one word compared to a few, and vice-versa.
Hand in hand with this, understanding that the idea being expressed is what's important, not the way it's said. Just because the sentence wasn't constructed the way we would have said it doesn't make it wrong.

THIRD: Pronunciation can be improved by reciting the names of things you see as you walk about, and holding conversations with yourself in the absence of friends to practice with. (Warning! Don't do this in the vacinity of mental institutions.)

LAST: I cheated. I learnt the worlds easiest language first and now I find I understand English better (my native tongue) and I'm in a better position to learn more languages. I've provided a link below to better explain this.

That language was ESPERANTO. It is designed such that you MUST understand sentence structure, which helps to understand other languages. It has 16 gramatical rules... with NO EXCEPTIONS!
Plus you end up with a multitude of Esperanto friends; oh the burdens we bear.

Not to understate it of course, but listen to and read as much as you possibly can, whenever you can.
Immersion, immersion, IMMERSION!
I listen to Esperanto music all day long, just to tune my ear to it.

Ĝis!

Answer 3

Take some sort of a course to get the basics (minimal vocabulary, basic grammar), then go get immersed. Go live someplace where you can only use that language (or primarily that language, since English is almost everywhere). Get a girlfriend/boyfriend who doesn't speak your language very well (it's a very unfair sort of relationship if they're trying to learn your language, but them's the breaks.)

Unless you're some sort of linguistic genius, there is no faster way than that. Actually if you ARE some sort of genius, there's no faster way than that. I knew a Russian guy who had a year of one-hour-a-week Japanese classes, came to Japan barely speaking a word, and was having intelligible conversations within a month.

(His English showed the same improvement, simultaneously. The guy was amazing.)

Answer 4

Hollywood stars and singers dont' always speak fluently in that language. Sometimes they just learn what they have to in order to get through their lines. The easiest way is to go to the country that speaks the language and live there for a few months. You have to learn to survive.

Answer 5

The quickest way to learn any language is to put yourself in an environment where it's constantly spoken, like go to a certain country where it's spoken for a few weeks or months. The reason you spoke english so well when you were a few years old is because it was spoken all around you constantly.

Answer 6

my experience has been learn it from someone on the street, meaning, make friends with someone who can speak english and whatever language you want to learn and that is the best way b/c that is the way they really talk. school--too gramatically correct, no one talks like that on the street...learn it from the source...

Answer 7

The quickest way to learn a language is to have the drive to want to learn it. prime example two of the many friends that I have one is from Equador and the other from Hong kong. now Spanish to English is easier than Chinese to English. because of for one the writing system. well, my Chinese friend learned english faster and more fluent than my friend from Equador because my chinese wanted to learn it. My other friend did not care for it. both admitting their reasons.

Answer 8

my experience is to get a foreign girlfriend who only speaks that language..:-)

I learned Portuguese living in Portugal like that..:-)

Answer 9

Street jive is easiest way, and getting to know a native helps alot.

Answer 10

I perfectly agree with Pula