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Topic: If you are learning a new language, post your tips on how you are learning it? - page 3. (Read 2194 times)

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I am currently learning Russian, and I started learning it by communicating with one of the people inside Russia, where it helped me a lot to learn the basics of the language, and today I complete my education through one of the disasters that are explained in private institutes, and my only advice for you to learn the language and master it well is to communicate with One of the people who speak the language you want to learn

I think thats a good advise. Trying to learn a new language is very difficult and doing so wit a naitive speaker is the best way. If you play any particular games I would recommend playing with players from the particular country you are trying to learn the language.

In the end it all depends of what you are trying to get better in - is it speak / understanding or even writing. For me to not forget a language completely I have used in a while I am trying to watch movies in French with subtitles. It forces me to read and listen to French. I also find listening to audio books when travelling a great tool to keep practicing my language skills. But then again, 1 on 1 sessions with the teacher would be the best, but are expensive.
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Duolingo itself is quite enough for me. However, if I want to dive even a little into the world of native speakers, then I watch some videos on youtube in which this language is spoken.
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I am currently learning Russian, and I started learning it by communicating with one of the people inside Russia, where it helped me a lot to learn the basics of the language, and today I complete my education through one of the disasters that are explained in private institutes, and my only advice for you to learn the language and master it well is to communicate with One of the people who speak the language you want to learn
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My primary language is Arabic but I have learned English because it is a universal language and we need it in any field and the best way to learn the language is to watch movies and videos in addition to learning the basic rules through institutes and schools and learning the language is a cumulative matter we must every day learn new vocabulary
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I am from India and I know in total five languages and they are:

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Urdu
  • Bengali
  • Telegu

I can read and write almost all of them and presently I am learning French. In my opinion your mother tongue or your native language is the base for you to learn all other languages as your mind tends to convert your mother language to another language. Hence, In my opinion you should know your native language thoroughly then only you can speak in other languages.
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I am currently trying to perfect my English, the best and fastest method would be with a native speaker teacher, however I am making considerable progress with the duolingo android application
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I'm trying to learn French and I'm happy with my method, I just memorize the most used expressions, don't care about the rest.  Grin

The "learn along the way approach?" Cheesy? Yeah that seems like a good method, I just want to know what I'm saying so I don't offend anyone really.
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I'm trying to learn French and I'm happy with my method, I just memorize the most used expressions, don't care about the rest.  Grin
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Yeah how long til you spoke fluently? I took some german in college and I could not for the life of me getting the sentence structure the vocab and etc down, I ended up failing the class because even with a tutor I couldn't figure anything out.
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I used to learn german when I was in college.

It was like learning any other language, it did work, you just need to practice with native language speakers. that's it.

College = USA? 

Wie lange hast du gebraucht bis du Deutsch flüssig sprechen konntest? Würde mich halt echt interessieren, weil die meisten sagen dass es für sie extrem schwer ist das zu lernen..

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Duolingo.com is a great website to learn languages I heard. You should look it up in case you haven't. Smiley

He even states in his opening post that he is using it Wink
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Duolingo.com is a great website to learn languages I heard. You should look it up in case you haven't. Smiley

Yeah I've been there and memrise, the problem is retaining the learned information and being able to hear it and answer to it. Like if I was to say me llamo skottiejay I know what that means, but I wouldn't know if someone was ASKING me what my name was, that's what the problem is the listening for the words and understand what they are saying, but maybe that just comes in time.
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Duolingo.com is a great website to learn languages I heard. You should look it up in case you haven't. Smiley
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Yeah, I realized that after the last time I wanted to learn Spanish and another language at the same time. I've already had some school time in with Spanish/French and some stuff I'm relearning again and picking up quick but there's still some things I need work on. That's why I'm going over basic vocab first, just to kind of refresh myself. I'm not sure what language I want to "focus" on entirely though because I'm interested in so many.
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I am just not 100% convinced that learning multiple languages at once is good thing for normal human with normal intelligence, memory and capabilities. You should maximize your efforts and focus on one language at time. And if you want to learn multiple languages start from the easiest one.
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That's why I'm intensively going over the stuff at memrise and duolingo and making sure I remember things, I'm even marking down the things I"m forgetting to look up later. I'm still only at basic spanish vocab and I don't even have a general grasp at that. But eventually I'll probably get it, I don't know.

Any other tips tipsters?
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You will need to be a geek to do this sort of thing.

Learning by practice is the only way to become an expert.
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I really enjoy learning and speaking languages, the practice is one important step, learn the vocabulary and start creating sentences in the language that you're learning. Also try listen and watch programs or music in your goal language and it will be really useful to learn about the vocabulary.
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In my opinion the best way is to learn the swear words of a given language and also maybe get a job where they only speak the language that your trying to learn and see if you swim or float.
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1) first of all you need to learn how to speak in language you want to learn
2) learn the vocab
3) learn the grammar

that's all my tips for learning the language, hope its very usefull for you
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