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How to Learn any Language from Scratch to Fluency
In 2005 I went to live in Mexico. I didn’t speak a word of Spanish and wasn’t particularly drawn to the language but I knew that if I wanted to live, work and above all open up my options in Mexico, I had to be able to speak the language.
After less than 2 years I was making a living as a freelance translator working with multinational North American companies and official translators. I had even branched out into English - Spanish translation. How did I achieve this? You could say I had the advantage of living in the country. I say you still have to want to learn the language whether you’re in the country or not. Go to any non-English speaking country and round up a few ex-pats; apparently it doesn’t make a shred of difference how many decades you live, work and love in a foreign language/country if you have no inkling to learn the language.
But ex-pats aside, I want to share with you exactly what I did do to go from zero to fluency in under two years, relatively no time at all when compared with high school language learning expectations, or years of post-school language learning attempts. Don’t be put off though; there are no real similarities between my way of learning languages and the more ‘traditional’ scholastic methods; and no, I’m not offering any quick-fix solutions either; there’s no such thing. My wish is simply to show you how to learn any language from scratch to fluency in however long it takes you to get there, the difference being, you will get there.
After less than 2 years I was making a living as a freelance translator working with multinational North American companies and official translators. I had even branched out into English - Spanish translation. How did I achieve this? You could say I had the advantage of living in the country. I say you still have to want to learn the language whether you’re in the country or not. Go to any non-English speaking country and round up a few ex-pats; apparently it doesn’t make a shred of difference how many decades you live, work and love in a foreign language/country if you have no inkling to learn the language.
But ex-pats aside, I want to share with you exactly what I did do to go from zero to fluency in under two years, relatively no time at all when compared with high school language learning expectations, or years of post-school language learning attempts. Don’t be put off though; there are no real similarities between my way of learning languages and the more ‘traditional’ scholastic methods; and no, I’m not offering any quick-fix solutions either; there’s no such thing. My wish is simply to show you how to learn any language from scratch to fluency in however long it takes you to get there, the difference being, you will get there.
42 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 2, 2014
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Graham Tippett
52 books3 followersGraham Tippett (1977-) studied literature, music and languages in the UK before making a permanent move to Mexico in 2005. It was there he began to explore and research methods of improvisation on the guitar and published the '2 Position Scale System' series of instruction books in 2014, which are the fruit of that research. He is also well-known for his love of languages and music, drawing parallels between the two art forms as he continues to write and research on the subjects of language learning and improvisation.
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