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12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need

12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need
Preface by Tim Ferriss I’ve written about how I learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. I’ve also covered my experiments with German, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian, Turkish, and perhaps a dozen others. There are only few language learners who dazzle me, and Benny Lewis is one of them. This definitive guest post by Benny will teach you: How to speak your target language today.How to reach fluency and exceed it within a few months.How to pass yourself off as a native speaker.And finally, how to tackle multiple languages to become a “polyglot”—all within a few years, perhaps as little as 1-2. It contains TONS of amazing resources I never even knew existed, including the best free apps and websites for becoming fluent in record time. This is a post you all requested, so I hope you enjoy it! Enter Benny You are either born with the language-learning gene, or you aren’t. I think you can stack the deck in your favor. So, let’s get started! Here’s what I suggest instead:

Práctica 25 de January de 2017 Hola, cordial saludo, me gusta mucho el método usado para aprender ingles, lo he estado estudiando, pero necesito por favor si alguien me puede explicar un poco mejor la regla del limón, la verdad la leí pero no logro entender como aplica esta regla, y también me puedan explicar cuando se considera que una palabra tenga el sonido shua, entiendo el concepto pero no logro identificar cuando una palabra tiene sonido shua Gabriela 11 de January de 2017 Muchas gracias! 6 de November de 2016 Muchas gracias, ...ya empezaba a pensar que tenia un problema auditivo ,porque no llegaba a entender el inglés.

How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour (Plus: A Favor) Deconstructing Arabic in 45 Minutes Conversational Russian in 60 minutes? This post is by request. How long does it take to learn Chinese or Japanese vs. Spanish or Irish Gaelic? Here’s the reasoning… Before you invest (or waste) hundreds and thousands of hours on a language, you should deconstruct it. So far, I’ve deconstructed Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Norwegian, Irish Gaelic, Korean, and perhaps a dozen others. How is it possible to become conversationally fluent in one of these languages in 2-12 months? Consider a new language like a new sport. There are certain physical prerequisites (height is an advantage in basketball), rules (a runner must touch the bases in baseball), and so on that determine if you can become proficient at all, and—if so—how long it will take. Languages are no different. Six Lines of Gold Here are a few questions that I apply from the outset. 2. 3. 4. It doesn’t take much to answer these questions.

Learn Languages Better With This Psychological Tip Boost language learning with this tip. Using gestures while trying to learn a new language can help boost memory, a new study finds. The motor system, the part of the brain controlling movements, seems to be particularly important in language learning. While many language learning systems already incorporate pictures to help people learn, this is one of the first studies to show the importance of gesture. In the experiment, published in the journal Current Biology, participants tried to learn a made-up language called ‘Vimmish’, chosen so that people would never have heard it before (Mayer et al., 2015). Groups were taught Vimmish, which sounds a bit like Italian, in a variety of ways to test which promoted the best recall. Dr Katja Mayer, the study’s first author, explained the results: The researchers found that gestures were slightly more helpful than images in helping people learn vocabulary. Professor Katharina von Kriegstein, who led the study, said Professor von Kriegstein said:

Ejercicios PET (Preliminary English Test) Díselo a tus amigos! Recomienda LP Method a tus amigos y hablemos todos inglés!Y consigue accesos gratuitos! Valídate para poder obtener tus puntos extra Mensaje enviado a: con email: cerrar A Base Vocabulary List for Any Language Your Base Vocabulary: The first ~625 words [Author's note: Behold, the new, improved list:] Check these out at the Word Lists page! Your Base Vocabulary: Your first 625 words This is a new, improved version of an older list of 400 words. I’ve culled this list from the General Service List and Wordfrequency.info - two well-made frequency lists for English. I’ve also begun a project to get this list professionally translated into a bunch of languages. How to use this list: Pronunciation (in general): Learn your pronunciation rules. The List(s) A quick note about order I’m providing this list in two formats: a thematic list and an alphabetical list. The thematic list is friendly: you’ll see lists of animals, types of clothing, professions, etc. Thematic lists are nice ways to organize words, but I’m going to suggest that you avoid them when you actually sit down to learn your words, and use an alphabetical list instead. Order is important. Your First 625 Words (in Thematic Order, with notes):

A World of Languages World Cities With At Least 1 Million Residents (1800–1930) This chart is the latest in our Vintage Viz series, which presents historical visualizations along with the context needed to understand them. The explosive world population boom in the last 300 years is common knowledge today. Much and more has been written about how and why it happened, why it was unusual, and how the specter of a declining population for the first time in three centuries could impact human society. However, equally compelling, is how people in the past—those living in the midst of the early waves of this boom—were fascinated by what they were witnessing. Evidence of this comes from today’s vintage visualization, denoting the increasing number of world cities with at least one million inhabitants through the years. The above pictogram was made by Austrian philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath (1882–1945), found in his book, Society and Economy, published in 1930. World Population Doubles Between 1800 and 1930

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