Tips on how to learn a foreign language 29 Articles

by laimh

If you took a poll to see what the hardest languages to learn in the world would be, you'd have no trouble finding a place for both English and Chinese in the top ten. I was fortunate enough to learn both of these as a na...read more

by Keeana Saxon

Immersion Is Still the Best Way to Go Cocky, fresh, green, and young, I stepped off the airplane at the Charles de Gaulle airport in France after a seven-hour journey from Boston, Massachusetts. Barely twenty years old...read more

by Trudy-Ann Ewan

If you can't find the time to spend thirty to forty minutes sitting down in a classroom to boringly pour over verb conjugations of "I Am" and "I Have", but you do want to learn a another language, do not despair, it is pos...read more

by Karen Banes

Many of us struggle to learn a foreign language and end up concluding that we are simply no good at languages. There are, however, some great ways to learn a new language, or improve an existing one, both in your home coun...read more

by Colette Duval

Conversational classes are very much in vogue these days. From German to French to Spanish, it seems that everyone is taking up language classes in the hope to be able to order ein Glass Bier or un cafe du lait or state ...read more

by Reed Daigle

Watch your attitudes Some of the most important things to remember when learning a foreign language are not necessarily techniques. Just as important are attitudes such as enthusiasm, boldness, humility, honesty, persi...read more

by Mina Snyder

Many times I've heard, "To really learn another language, you must learn from native speakers." For most of us, this is just not possible. What's the next best thing? Having friends abroad, of course! That is, www.friendsa...read more

by Jena Malone

I have been learning French now for 6 years. A long time, you may think. Surely anybody would be able to know the ins and outs of a language by this time. Mais, as with anything in this life it's not always that simple. ...read more

by Les Zsoldos

The best way to learn a foreign language is to immerse yourself in it. By this, I mean that you should have friends who speak the language and use it with them. You should also read in the language, watch movies in the l...read more

by Alexa Payne

Make Learning a Foreign Language a Feast for the Senses 1. Hearing. Listen to music, or podcasts in the language. Get a sense for the rhythm and sound of the language. Try to pick out words. Get music with lyrics so...read more

by Ken Jeremiah

Simple Techniques for Foreign Language Success (An Excerpt from the book "Foreign Language Made Easy" ISBN: 0-595-34862-9) In order to understand what is being taught in the classroom, students should: Pay atte...read more

by Amy Bryan

Practice makes perfect, or so the old addage says...It's no exception, either, when it comes to learning a foreign language! I've been a language learner and teacher for several years, and having experienced language lear...read more

by Jianguo Peng

In a certain store where they sell puddings, a number of these delicious things are laid out in a row during the Christmas season. Here you may select the one which is most to your taste, and you are even allowed to sample...read more

by Flora Tie

For the first 15 years in my life, I spent half of the time learning English. From phonics to grammar, you name it, I have it. I must admit that I still knew little about the language, though I thought I had it all. Whe...read more

by Polina Gogol

I would like to continue writing short stories with using American idioms in order to help non-English speakers to learn and understand American speech better. All idioms are included in quotation marks; the situation of a...read more

by Casey Williamson

The quick and easy guide to learning a language... As an Australian born citizen, I started learning German at the start of high school and contrary to what some may believe learning a second language is hard... However...read more

by Lance Ehrhardt

The best way to learn a language is simply to practice it. Just as you learned a language as a child by participating in conversation and listening to others, the same skill can be acquired at any age. Immersion is proba...read more

by Sweetsmile

I think that we should know why we should learn foreign languages before we start to learn them. If we have no clear answers to this question, it is better to stop learning any other languages, for it will be very difficul...read more

by Alex Sena

I have mastered pretty much French in all the usual ways a learner could possibly use: (1) two or more years of college of high school work, in my case, my study of French only happened at the college level, (2) followed b...read more

by miffy

learning English is physical work we Chinese spent too much time on learning English without good results. there are Several hundred million Chinese are studying English , only few can speak English fluently. How s...read more