POLYGLOT NOTES: Practical Tips for Learning Foreign Language

by Yuriy Ivantsiv

Each person throughout his or her life has to deal with different cultures and languages one way or another. Knowledge of language greatly facilitates the interaction of a person with another type of culture, improves social status, provides career growth, provides great opportunities for self-expression and dissemination of ideas, opens up prospects for modern education, improves financial situation, contributes to the achievement of your goals and objectives. However, in the process of learning many people necessarily face difficulties, which they lack experience and necessary knowledge to overcome.
This practical manual will become a desktop assistant for a large for those who want to or are already learning a foreign language, do it alone or with a teacher, individually, in a group or educational institution (school, college, university, academy). The workshop will help to structure and organize your individual language learning process and will give you the opportunity to independently determine the methodology of learning a language that will be interesting and not burdensome.
The title of the manual reflects its current issues and possible solutions. The material is presented in a concise and concrete manner. The methods presented in the book can be immediately applied in language practice. Each person can choose the method that is interesting and most adapted to him or her, as well as suitable to his or her pace and lifestyle, so that language learning becomes a natural and exciting process.

Preface
What is Language?
Why Cannot You Learn a Foreign Language?
How Much Time You Will Spend to Learn a Language?
The Duration of Lessons
Minimum Vocabulary of a Foreign Language
Which Textbook to Choose to Learn a Language?
How to Choose a Teacher?
How to Prepare for the Language Exam?
A Foreign Language for Children
Distance Learning
How to Coach and to Develop Memory
Training
Grammar Study
Phonetics Study
Vocabulary Study
Developing Listening Skills
Developing Speaking Skills
Developing Reading Skills
Developing Writing Skills
Linguistic Environment
Immersion in the Linguistic Environment
Language Interference
Regional Geography
Culture Shock

Genres: Language

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 25, 2020