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Guide To Languages On The Web. Foreign Language Word Of the Day. Free Online Games For Learning Spanish. 30+ Reasons Why We Don't Succeed In Learning Languages. Today’s post is my serious attempt to collect every possible reason why we don’t learn a language in list format, and to offer possible suggestions to overcome them, or to request your solutions to these problems!

30+ Reasons Why We Don't Succeed In Learning Languages

I will be updating this list to add new reasons based on your comments. (Note that in the post after this, I am looking for the opposite to reasons why we can’t and I want to hear your success stories that could potentially inspire millions of people!) I am genuinely going to try to get the number of reasons and their possible retorts up to the high double digits, because I want there to be no more excuses for us to remain monolingual throughout our lives. Because of this, I will start with what I feel are the main reasons I have heard, or that I believed at the age of 21, and offer a quick thought or link(s) to a possible solution to or reframing of the problem. So without further ado, here are some reasons I have come across, and my suggestions for them. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Fluent In 3 Months – Language Hacking Tips. LWT: Free Language Reading Tool: Fluent In 3 Months - Language Hacking.

The video gives my overview of this incredibly useful and totally free tool – check it out!

LWT: Free Language Reading Tool: Fluent In 3 Months - Language Hacking

As I say, today you are in for a treat A new feature has been added to fluentin3months.com for everybody to use – a foreign language reading interface, which can be an incredibly useful tool to help you advance quicker in being able to read and absorb vocabulary in your target language no matter what that language may be. All you have to do is go to fi3m.com/lwt and you’ll find it to be pretty straightforward to navigate, especially after looking at the video above and the links below to get an idea how to use it fully.

If you don’t have a log-in for the Fluent in 3 months forum yet, get that here as your log-in will keep your languages, texts and stored words/phrases private just to you. You cannot access the online system without logging in. Background But I was very pleased to see that an open source foreign language learning system has been developed by J. Instructions lwt.sourceforge.net. Speak Any Language Fluently: 6 Study Hacks From Learning German. I started to learn German after a day trip to Berlin 5 years ago.

Speak Any Language Fluently: 6 Study Hacks From Learning German

I fell in love with the culture and language immediately and decided that I would be speaking German Fluently by my next birthday. My affair with the German language eventually went from romantic to reality, and we had to work together to make our relationship work. Looking back, I now realize I could have cut the time it took me to master this language in half, had I only known what I know now. I’ve assembled this list of things you MUST know before you enter into a relationship with the German language.

Even if it’s just a fling or you are just flirting with the idea. Each tip is titled with an authentic German proverb, so that those of you who are thinking of starting soon can have a head start! Translation: Probieren geht über studieren. It’s an accepted fact that speaking a language will lead you to mastery faster than studying it out of a book. Learn To Speak A Different Language: FreeTranslation.com. FreeTranslation.com has partnered with Transparent Language to bring together a comprehensive collection of learning resources for people who are learning a language.

Learn To Speak A Different Language: FreeTranslation.com

Specially designed for those learning a language, you will find the BYKI™ 'Word Of the Day', learning cards, language and local culture blogs, survival phrases, online tests, as well as fun online games. So whether you are learning French, looking for a German blog, searching for Spanish survival phrases or wanting to test your Russian, it's all here. Graham Davies: Language Learning Websites. Free Language-Learning Resources Online. Duolingo: Free Interactive Language Learning. BBC Languages – Free Online Lessons. Learn 40 Languages For Free: Spanish, English, Chinese & More. How to learn languages for free?

Learn 40 Languages For Free: Spanish, English, Chinese & More

This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Amharic Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic – Audio – TextbookLessons with dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives will teach you the basics of this language spoken in Ethiopia. Includes samples of speech, explanations of basic language structures, and a variety of practical exercises. Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Introduction – Web SiteThe UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center provides an overview of Ancient Greek and 10 lessons based on famous Greek texts.

Arabic Bookmark our free Arabic lessons section. American Sign Language Introductory American Sign Language Course – YouTubeBy the end of this course you should have a basic bank of ASL words that you are able to use to form simple sentences. Bambara Bulgarian Cambodian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Dutch Lao. Learn French At FrenchTutorial.com.