Thursday 27 September 2012

Can You Learn Any Language and Speak It Fluently Fast?

By Mark Spolsky


What factors are responsible for success in language learning? If you learn English or any other language you can boost your progress by learning in a specific way. According to the research most English students struggle and fail because of psychology, not because of methods, not because of teachers.

Learning methods are very important but factors like student's emotions and attitude are actually much more important. Tony Robbins once said that these factors are 80% of success. Therefore, your psychology, your emotions and motivation are much more important than the schools you go to, the teachers you have or the books you use.

Research shows that optimistic, enthusiastic and energetic students learn much faster than students with opposite attitude. Students with the negative mentality tend to be pessimistic, and they have low motivation. Therefore, they struggle with learning, and they often drop out and quit. They never succeed.

Because of that managing your emotions is a very important thing. To learn effectively we must develop a strong, powerful and enthusiastic attitude towards English. When we feel positive emotions towards English our psychology gets stronger and we become better students, and finally we succeed. This side of learning process is called non-linguistic factors among language teachers.

One of the best experts in language learning Dr. Stephen Krashen from Los Angeles during his studies found that non-linguistic factors are equally or even more important than linguistic factors. According to the research factors like emotions, feeling about English and learner's peer group decide whether the student succeed or fail.

How you can manage your emotions and learn language faster? Here's a little ritual, a little plan you can follow every day to start feeling better and therefore improve your motivation and to learn English or any language faster. And it's very simple. The first thing you're going to do is when you get up in the morning, you want to get into a peak emotional state.It means you want to feel great.

You probably think, how to do this? It is really easy. The best way is to use some energetic music and move and dance for about 5 minutes. After this you will be full of energy. In this state you will feel great so you can start learning your English lessons.

Another important point. You want to move your body while you're listening to the lessons. This will keep your energy high. Hence most traditional schools are not successful in language teaching because you must learn there sitting still all the time.

When you follow my advice you boost your chances to become a successful English speaker. Try to use audio lessons as often as you can. You can go for a walk with your iPod and listen to your lessons. In this way, you learn English and exercise your body at the same time. Combination of movement and right learning method is the recipe for success in English learning.




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