LEARNING LANGUAGES

Learning to speak, read and write a language fluently is very useful and possible, on your own or with specialists help. Some basic principles are fundamental if you want to do useful work.

Firstly, you have to want to learn the language, not just wish. It's no magic power of the will, just that you will have to study on your own for some months, and everything will rest in your hands. You have to be very motivated to learn new language.

Secondly, you have to read, listen to radio, watch TV in that language, which you want to learn. There are thousands of resources on the Internet, hundreds of magazines and newspapers where you can see your language "live" and confront your skills.

Thirdly, you have to find people you speak your language, be it trough travel, ads, local community centers, or whatever other mean. Speak with them, listen to what they say. Also, you should not be happy with being understood. It's easy to be understood and you will not command respect from the people you talk to if you speak to them in what will look to them like baby talk. Instead, you should always try to make your pronunciation perfect, including intonations. When you make a mistake, insist to be corrected and write the correct phrase.

Fourthly, you have to find specialist who can help you in language learning. Specialists can help you to develop good learning methods, give practice in different types of tasks, in pronunciation, regular tests. Specialist can revise all major areas of grammar thoroughly and give plenty of practice in speaking.

‚He who learns but does not think, is lost He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger‘- Confucius. This Confucius saying seems to suggest that we should enjoy learning for its own sake, that almost every situation in life gives us the opportunity to learn something.

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