How to Learn a Foreign Language: A Practical Guide with Tips and Resources (Location Independent Series Book 1)

by Jeff Blum

How to Learn Any Language

three elements (in order): effectiveness (priority), adherence (interest), and efficiency (process).

you then filter materials based on your likelihood of continued study and review, or adherence (interest); finally, you determine how to learn the material most efficiently (process).

timidity

fear of embarrassment

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who idolized a Norwegian snowboarder and was trying to master English enough to one day talk to him. You may consider that an unlikely event and thus fairly weak motivation, but I assure you it was strong for her and, in fact, she ended up meeting and chatting with

long-run,

Longo prazo

First language influence is common in complex word order and in word-for-word translations of phrases.

Concrete perceptions involve registering information through the five senses, while abstract perceptions involve understanding ideas, qualities, and concepts which cannot be seen.

producing language with ease; speaking with a good but not necessarily perfect command of intonation, vocabulary, syntax and grammar; expressing your ideas coherently; and

producing continuous speech without causing comprehension difficulties, with minimal breakdowns

Clozemaster

The idea is to learn 10,000 sentences in your target language. According to AJATT, you’ve “learned” a sentence when you: read it in full, aloud, in its native script;

know the meaning of every word in the sentence; and write the sentence by hand in its native script.

Tatoeba,

but you may not recall them when speaking. For at least the first months—and when you have limited study time—give preference to recall, since doing so gets you recognition, whereas training for recognition doesn’t always help with

Studies show that you need to hear a word between 6 times67 to 17 times68 before you learn it.

footnotes

FluentU,72 Language Learning

Viki Learn Mode74 for help with this). Reading often—articles, blogs, books—in your target language should also be on your radar.

Learning With Tex...

TuneIn

Foreign Service Institute (FSI)

glaring drawback

Gritante desvantagem

“what is this called?”,

“can you say that again?”,

“can you speak more ...

look for ways to express yourself by using words and grammar you know.