What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby smallwhite » Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:40 am

While I can't believe that people are considering a thread like this to be a better promotion opportunity than the Polyglot Gathering.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby rdearman » Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:57 am

smallwhite wrote:While I can't believe that people are considering a thread like this to be a better promotional opportunity than the Polyglot Gathering.

Not better, just another.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby Cavesa » Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:00 pm

garyb wrote:I can't believe that people are taking this thread seriously.


My ability to discern serious questions, jokes, and trolling has been decreasing during the last few years. I sometimes simply don't know what to believe anymore.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby smallwhite » Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:47 pm

rdearman wrote:
smallwhite wrote:While I can't believe that people are considering a thread like this to be a better promotional opportunity than the Polyglot Gathering.

Not better, just another.

The Polygot Gathering didn't end up being "one" so this thread can't be "another"...
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby 白田龍 » Wed Mar 21, 2018 6:58 pm

What is be the best way to who learn what language?
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby Decidida » Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:21 pm

reineke wrote:
What you need to know to learn a foreign language (free book).
https://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation


Thanks!!!!

Threads are often useful to far more people than just the OP.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby Balltongue » Mon May 28, 2018 10:19 pm

A deep conection with the target language, and passion so you enjoy the ride. You need to be passionate about the learning of this particular language and the process. Without passion there's nothing. You're gonna get fluent in some point eventually anyways, don't sweat.

So... 1.- passion.

And that's about it.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby adamwakoski » Wed May 30, 2018 12:28 pm

Agree. Passion is the key. Although it means something different for everyone.
For example, I am very people-oriented. And if there is a person who inspires me, I'd definitely be interested in learning his or her language.
So, I think it would be really useful for many people who struggle with a foreign language to find a friend from a country of their interest to get additional motivation.
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby joshua » Wed Jun 20, 2018 3:46 am

rdearman wrote:
garyb wrote:I can't believe that people are taking this thread seriously.

The advantage of taking it seriously, is that if someone were to do a google search for this phrase they'd end up here, and hopefully they'll get a lot of useful advice. :)


Through a roundabout route I found myself in this forum at this thread, and yes, this has given me some very good jumping off points. Thank you!
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Re: What do you think is the best way to learn a language?

Postby Kraut » Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:13 am

Depends upon the language.
You can't follow Krashen's "comprehensible input" method with this language: no articles, no fixed word-order, but seven cases in nouns, adjectives, pronouns .. difficult pronunciation.

Aš taip pat turiu viena seserį. Mano sesuo yra dar jauna mergaitė.
Ji dar nera studentė. Ji yra mokinė. Ji eina į mokyklą. Jai
yra dar tik dešimt metų.
Mano mama yra šeimininkė. Ji dirba namie: verda pusryčius,
pietus, vakarienę, valo kambarius. Mes visi ją labai mylime. Ji
yra labai gera motina.
Vakare mes visi esame namie. Mama skaito laikraštį, tėvas
rašo laišką, mes skaitome knygas, musų sesutė Ruta ruošia
pamokas. Mes esame labai laimingi.

I have given up on this language, but the bi-directional translation approach had worked best.



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L’italiano si parla unicamente in Europa. Inoltre, è una lingua radicata nella cultura europea: è la lingua del Rinascimento, dell’epoca in cui l’Europa riscoprì sé stessa, e in cui l’Italia non esisteva ancora come Paese. È la lingua del risveglio dell’arte pittorica e della musica, arti in cui le differenze linguistiche passano in secondo piano. Se questo non fosse sufficiente, l’italiano è il discendente più diretto del latino, che indiscutibilmente è stata per secoli la lingua d’Europa, influenzando il vocabolario delle altre ed essendo oggetto d’ammirazione e di studio in tutti i Paesi.
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