Sunday 22 September 2013

5 Tricks To Learning A Foreign Language Easily

By Alexandra Peterson


Learning a new language doesn't have to be difficult. While it can be tedious at times and frustrating at other times, the end result is that you are able to effectively communicate with people from another country and culture. Learning a different language isn't impossible and these tips might help you to learn your chosen language more quickly and effectively.

Speaking with native speakers is a tool that you might be hesitant to use but nothing will give you the feedback and practice that speaking with those that are fluent in your chosen language. You can often find native speakers locally who will welcome you to meet with them and both listen and speak with them in their native tongue. Sometimes immigrants will be glad to have the opportunity to not only help you but also hone their English speaking skills at the same time.

Repeating new words with all of your senses can help speed up the process of learning a new language. Write the word that you're trying to learn, listen to it, imagine it in your mind and repeat the words that you're trying to learn over and over again until it become ingrained in your mind. After a while, these words will come to you naturally without any effort and bombarding your brain with the word will speed the learning process along.

Take advantage of time that is often wasted in your life by listening to recordings of the language that you're trying to learn and mimic or repeat what you hear over and over again. Most of us have hours during the day that we waste sitting in traffic or at our desk during our lunch hour that could be used to practice speaking and understanding a new language. Don't let this time be wasted.

Try watching some movies in the language that you're trying to learn. It might be a bit of a struggle at first but you might be surprised by how much you actually understand. If nothing else, hearing the language being spoken will enable you to pick up words that you might not understand at the moment but which will later be familiar to you.

Repetition can't be understated when it comes to learning a new language. For anything to become a habit or be done without thinking it's necessary to repeat the desired result many times. While this might become tiresome after a short while, the end result is what should be important to you. The payoff for all of your hard work will be when you instinctively understand and reply to a native speaker and they are impressed with your mastery of the language.




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