So, you want to learn a foreign language, huh? I’ve been there. You start learning, everything is cool, you’re making great progress, life seems great, everything feels possible and suddenly, progress comes to a screeching halt. Sound familiar? If you’re new to learning a foreign language, I hope you also find this helpful. Through my experiences with learning languages and how they work, I have learned many different techniques and useful methods of learning that I will gladly share on the internet (since my real-life friends have had enough of it).
My first language is Spanish, learned English by living in the US and I have been learning German for about three years of my life. I know very basic Portuguese and French. In this blog, I will be referring a lot to German, Spanish and English. However, the tips I give, could help with other foreign languages as well.
I hear too many excuses such as, “you know, I’ve been learning French for years and I finally realized that learning languages just isn’t for me.” or, “I just don’t have time for it. It takes too much dedication”. Only to find out they usually aren’t staying consistent and or working “too hard” (this will be explained on my next post). Learning a language has gotten so much easier in recent years. The internet is our savior. I don’t know how people used to do it before the internet (Generation Z here), but now, we have the internet. This means, we have access to many resources we can use for language learning. Use this to your advantage! My favorite tool is YouTube. You like cooking? Great! Go look up “how to cook healthy food” in the language you are learning and boom! You will find many videos that will: 1. Help you learn new words/phrases 2. Teach you how to cook a healthy meal. You’d be killing two birds with one stone. You like makeup? Go and look it up on YouTube. Explore the internet and see what you can find.
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