Friday, April 15, 2011

How To Learn a Foreign Language

If you want to speak a language fluently just visit their country , meet with native speaker  and surely you will speak fluently .  A person who has widely travelled and had opportunities to live in many countries would have naturally acquired more number of languages than a bookworm set out to master languages through guide books sitting at home. To develop language skills, it is essential to give a potential atmosphere. For instance, if you are keen to make your children speak good English, put them in a school where everyone speaks only in English. If this is not possible for some reason, expose the children constantly to an appropriate atmosphere wherein they will be automatically compelled to learn the language. If you can speak a language easily, then do it with your children so that you are able to work on their language skills in day-to-day interactions. Yes experience is the best teacher is the best quote here.

Making children watch  films on DVDs will help them acquire language easily. Starting to learn language during the early part of one's life has more advantages compared to postponing it to a later stage. Mastering grammar does not bestow language skills; rather it comes by constant practice. Finding a teacher or school is very important for beginners since repeatedly speaking and listening a language has not better alternative in quickening the language learning.

While learning a new language, start thinking in that language. This method may be slow and challenging at first, but besides letting you acquire language skills quickly, this method will also make the learning stay permanent in memory. In other words, while trying to learn a new language, you should act as though it is the only language you know on this earth, which will enable you learn the language faster. On the other hand, if you are going to follow the translation method, the initial part of a given sentence would have gone off the mind by the time you come to the tail end of it.

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