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Hack Your Language Learning: The Simple Starter Guide for Beginners on How to Learn and Remember Any Language
Never learned a foreign language before? Tired of paying for language classes and just forgetting everything within a few weeks of the class being over? Are you still unable to speak a foreign language confidently after years of classes?Time to stop wasting your money on classes which go nowhere. Heyse was doing this for years, until he started studying more effectively. He went from speaking only a single language to speaking five languages.This book covers the essentials of what you can do to improve your language learning today. Discover the techniques that no language class has ever taught you. These techniques can help you memorize new vocabulary and grammar quickly and remember it forever. They will also help you with being able to speak a new language with confidence.
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67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 1, 2015
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April 24, 2018
So useful!
I'm learning the ancient language of Pali and got behind and this book rescued me! I was in a group with the author and got it when he first wrote it but never got past the first few pages. I found it in my kindle library having forgotten about it and got am I glad I found it because it has so many good ideas and resources to structure your learning I'm really, really impressed. Thank you for writing it and publishing it Heyse!
I'm learning the ancient language of Pali and got behind and this book rescued me! I was in a group with the author and got it when he first wrote it but never got past the first few pages. I found it in my kindle library having forgotten about it and got am I glad I found it because it has so many good ideas and resources to structure your learning I'm really, really impressed. Thank you for writing it and publishing it Heyse!
January 19, 2021
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. The less effort it takes to maintain a habit, the more likely you’ll be able to stick with it for a long period of time.
2. This need to be perfect is actually ruining the whole studying process.
3. But real life is different. When we speak to someone in a foreign language and the listener doesn’t understand us, the rejection is instant. Then you get this awkward silence.
4. A language just slips away so easily once classes are over. There’s often a concrete separation between class and daily life, where you’re only exposed to the language during the time period in which you are enrolled in the class.
5. By throwing yourself into these scenarios where you need to rapidly understand and respond yourself, you can train your mind to react faster. This is why I advocate attending a language exchange as soon as possible when you start studying a language.
6. If you want to explore other SRS, here's a list. Some of them I've tried, some of them I haven't. If Anki doesn't fit your style, you can try these out: Duolingo Memrise Mnemosyne SuperMemo
7. Flashcards are not to learn new information. It's to retain it. The learning process occurs when you create the card. The learning process usually goes like this: You see a word or phrase that you don't know. You find the definition of it in your native language. You decide on how to best represent the word in an appropriate context.
8. The learning occurs when you make the flashcards yourself. If you skip that step, then there’s a gap in your learning.
9. Studying words in isolation is useless. Provide the context to actually understand how to use the word. You might find yourself always falling on the same words over and over again. These are the leeches that drain your time. I like to add five new words or phrases a day to my flashcard collection. Five new words result in 10 new cards. Takes about 20 minutes to review 70 cards.
10. You want to be able to go from your target to your native language and also from your native language to your target language. If you only have cards that go one way, you won’t be able to retain the other direction as easily.
1. The less effort it takes to maintain a habit, the more likely you’ll be able to stick with it for a long period of time.
2. This need to be perfect is actually ruining the whole studying process.
3. But real life is different. When we speak to someone in a foreign language and the listener doesn’t understand us, the rejection is instant. Then you get this awkward silence.
4. A language just slips away so easily once classes are over. There’s often a concrete separation between class and daily life, where you’re only exposed to the language during the time period in which you are enrolled in the class.
5. By throwing yourself into these scenarios where you need to rapidly understand and respond yourself, you can train your mind to react faster. This is why I advocate attending a language exchange as soon as possible when you start studying a language.
6. If you want to explore other SRS, here's a list. Some of them I've tried, some of them I haven't. If Anki doesn't fit your style, you can try these out: Duolingo Memrise Mnemosyne SuperMemo
7. Flashcards are not to learn new information. It's to retain it. The learning process occurs when you create the card. The learning process usually goes like this: You see a word or phrase that you don't know. You find the definition of it in your native language. You decide on how to best represent the word in an appropriate context.
8. The learning occurs when you make the flashcards yourself. If you skip that step, then there’s a gap in your learning.
9. Studying words in isolation is useless. Provide the context to actually understand how to use the word. You might find yourself always falling on the same words over and over again. These are the leeches that drain your time. I like to add five new words or phrases a day to my flashcard collection. Five new words result in 10 new cards. Takes about 20 minutes to review 70 cards.
10. You want to be able to go from your target to your native language and also from your native language to your target language. If you only have cards that go one way, you won’t be able to retain the other direction as easily.
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November 25, 2015A big chunk of this book focuses on how to use Anki and how to use Mnemonics. A smaller portion is also dedicated to how to do/find a language exchange.
I've you've never learned a foreign language before, then go ahead and check out this book. If you are already decently well-read as to what techniques and strategies work for effective language learning, then you won't learn anything new here.
I've you've never learned a foreign language before, then go ahead and check out this book. If you are already decently well-read as to what techniques and strategies work for effective language learning, then you won't learn anything new here.
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