These fresh language learning strategies will keep you from going around in circles and give you inspiration to find your language learning mojo again.
Motivation, attitude, age, intelligence, aptitude, cognitive style, and personality all influence how we learn languages. When we ask serial language learners “How do you learn?”, we find everyone has different language learning strategies.
Energise your language study plans (and learn what *didn’t* work for me!) with these innovative language learning strategies.
It can be difficult keeping up the motivation to learn languages, because anything worth doing takes time, and languages are no different. This tweet appeared on my twitter feed a while ago… I guess I lost my motivation to learn languages. 😥 I mean I thought I was taking a
What is NOT the best way to learn Biblical Hebrew from scratch? (For me at least!) Studying grammar! If my brain is a sponge, it has been so full that it has been leaking after just five weeks of learning! All the new information has just run through and out
It can be difficult to communicate clearly when we are learning a new language. Some of us are shy, or maybe just not confident with talking to people when we only know a little vocabulary, but we still need to know how to get our point across and let others
I am not a big watcher of television. In fact, for the past ten years I haven’t even had a television connected to an antenna in the house. However, I do watch media entertainment. My main source has been through YouTube, and I have fairly narrow interest areas. Mostly I
I am a member of many online groups for language learners, and I kid you not, every day I would see this type of post come up several times. “I am a speaker of X language wanting to learn Y language. I can speak a little bit but understand a
Have you ever thought “I know – I’ll go and listen to some children’s songs and learn the language through them!”… then you go and listen to them and are absolutely astounded at how fast they sound, and how much you DON’T know, and then feel all despondent because you
I happened across a great site yesterday – news articles with accompanying (slow) audios! They exist in many languages – Linguistica 360 Inc. publishes them in French, Spanish, German and Italian, but I also found similar sites in Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese and others. To date I have only looked at
How to most efficiently learn new vocabulary? This is the big question, especially for those of us with a long list of languages we want to learn. And seriously the most boring for me! But what to do? Without memorising the words, it is impossible to learn the language… and
Just had to come and have a brag – just had my third conversation session (once a week for three weeks now), and it went SO well! My partner actually said he saw a difference between the first and second week as well, but the difference between last week and
I met up with a local exchange student to work on my French conversation yesterday. It was slow and awkward, but certainly gave my memory recall and pronunciation a work out! It is the first time I have had the opportunity to speak face-to-face with a native speaker in French.
