Week Four: Learn New Languages through Writing and Speaking Writing. You already have literacy skills that can serve as a powerful tool to develop you learn new languages. This is actually the last thing we develop in language, and not just in foreign languages. Many high school English teachers would probably agree that a lot… Read More New Languages: 5-week crash course
Over the next five weeks, check out The Five-Week Linguist Crash Course. Each week, you will see a summary of the fundamentals of learning a new language. In this first week, find out the basics of learning a new language, to include how to define fluency, different categories of languages and how long it takes… Read More Learn a new language in 2020: 5-Week Crash Course
Use these language learning journal prompts for speaking or writing, or mix it up. Writing is the last skill we master in languages. With that said, you can use that skill you already have in your own language to learn a new one. I love to journal to learn new languages. Short periods of time… Read More Language Learning Journal: More Prompts
Learn New Languages: Chunking Vocabulary is the building blocks of languages. All those words you learn can be built up into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Clearly, the more words you know, the easier it is to learn a new language. There is this idea that you can learn a lot of words, they start working… Read More Learn New Languages: Chunking
Language Learning Journals: Novice-level Prompts Start with The 5-Week Linguist Audio Training. This audio training will show you how long it will take to reach your language goals and where to focus your time and efforts. Get your tools ready: My iphone with the following apps: Voice Memos, but any that records will do. Google… Read More Language Learning Journals: Novice-level Prompts
Learn Languages: 25 Ways to Learn Every Day We all have the same 24 hours in a day. Here are some ideas to turn some time every day into time to learn languages. Select an activity or two that realistically fit into your life, carve out some time each day and track it over the… Read More Learn Languages: 25 Ways to Learn Every Day