Thursday, 05 March 2009
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QOTD - What's the Easiest Way to Learn a Foreign Language?
What's the easiest way to learn a foreign language? How many languages can you speak?
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live in the whichever city whose language you want to learn. 3 languages. and a little bit of this and that
I agree with La_miastella ... first hand practice is always key... but it all depends, if u just want to speak then surround urself by those who speak the language but if you would like to read and write then def move to the city who uses the language you're tryin to learn.
and if that's not possible then you can always Rosetta Stone it up!!!!
No money?? no worries!!! I also learned in the past that by watching tv shows/movies in the native tongue is a really effective too as well, but beware it might not always be proper, but slang.
I speak vietnamese, english and french, and am currently learning two dialects of chinese (mandarin and cantonese)... I picked up Korean before however never followed through due to the fact that I was learning other languages lol....
study abroad! but to prevent alienation you should learn the language in school at home first so you can communicate on a basic level. and the younger you start the better. hehe this question is basically my major so.. =P
i speak six languages =)
give yourself some month or a year and live wherever you want without caring if you understand the language or not. watch their tv&movies, talk with them, eat with them and well, do what they do. That could be a good way to learn the language you want.
4 languages and there are some mutual intelligible with mine..
@black_lie@xanga - that's freaking cool
reading; writing; speaking in every day.
I speak three languages: English, Hebrew, and Linear Algebra.
Immersion all the way. And I can only speak English, German and Italian (I spend far more time with dead languages than I do with live ones, I'm afraid).
@black_lie@xanga - thumbs up. Linguistics major?
@Deflate - intense..
@duckling8912@xanga - yea, specializing in second language fluency right now, and i'm also a chinese major
I'd say get basic grammar/vocab study, then totally immerse yourself in it.
By
the time I graduate, I'll have three, and a fourth on the way at least.
I'm an Ecology/Japanese/Chinese triple major, and I study Korean in my
spare time. I have some basic French from high school, too, but I can really just ask where the bathroom is and other basic stuff like that.
rosetta stone. hahaha jk. have friends from all walks of life and you're bound to pick up something.
Take classes and practise a little bit everyday. I took beginner's french and LOVED it. The teachers are Parisians, so they taught me how to speak french the way they do in France not Quebec (the french there is a bit different from France).
@duckling8912@xanga - that's hella sick. hehe. it always intrigued me that papua new guinea has the most language diversity in the world consider that it's so underdeveloped. it's sad that so many languages are becoming extinct, we are really losing valuable info about our world. hope i am not boring you...hehe
I feel so boring. Just English. Three years of Spanish in high school did nothing for me. I dunno how I even passed that class. I wish I could find the time to learn a language, or have the forsight to know which to learn. I want to study abroad in college, so yeah, it'd be helpful. I just hope I'm not too much of a slow learner when it comes to language.
Learning it in school, I guess. I'm learning French at the moment, and I already know how to speak English and Filipino.
Agree with immersion. I speak English, Romanian, and Tagalog at home with my family. Studying French now, learning Romanian helped a lot.
I speak five languages (English, Malay, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese).
And you must GO to the country to properly learn a language. If not... too bad.
Kidding. You can learn from books or tapes too, but the best is to go to the country. Seriously.
really the best way to learn a language properly is to go to the country and USE it. a classroom setting can never prepare you to become fluent, as much as the teachers might try (trust me- i am one).
You have to live there. What you learn in school is useless compared to the realities of the colloquial language, speed, or accent. It's o.k. to get your class credits in a foreign language, but don't delude yourself regarding how well you will do when traveling.
This is from first hand experience.
Take a class, or go through a book of some sort.
But always try to find a way to practice it with someone who is a native speaker, whether that entails moving to a country where they speak it, or just finding someone local who does.
I speak English and Spanish, and understand German and Toisan Chinese.
Spanish is the only thing I've been able to be immersed in, so that's why a lot of it sticks. I also took a class last semester at my school -- useful for learning vocab and grammar rules, but not so great at teaching how to speak it. We had to go to mandatory tutoring for that class, and I chose a tutor who was a native speaker.
The best way to learn is when you are 2 or 3 years old. It has been proven that when children learn a 2nd language when they are young, it makes it easier for them to learn other languages. It helps to be surrounded by people who speak that language and use it everyday. I would bet that people who speak lots of languages spoke a 2nd language when they were young.
4 languages
Total immersion is the best way. I'm bilingual but I know bits and pieces of like 12 other languages, because that is what I do for fun. :| I learn through dictionaries and grammar websites, reading & translating & writing stuff.
total imerson-find someone who speaks the language and tlk to them in the language you are trying to learn-
I speak German,Italien,French,English