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How you can learn almost any language
For most of my life I have been fascinated with other languages. I recall being somewhat excited about the prospect of studying a language in High School, but the end result was a great disappointment. In two years of study of the Spanish language we barely knew anything past finding out about names, telling about going to the movies, or asking where the bathroom is. In two years we had done little more than cover the basics and in the final month of class finally were able to construct such dizzying phrases as "I am going to go to the movies." as opposed to the much simpler "I go to the movies" that we had lived with for a little over a year and a half. At this point in time I really wondered if I just wasn't meant to know and understand another language. In college I chose to study German and learned more in a semester about that language than our High School course had covered in 2 years of Spanish and so felt somewhat bolstered in the hope that I would someday be bilingual. Time passed and I had got away from language study for some years when I decided that I needed to buckle down and get to learn one language other than my native one very well. I chose Spanish for a few reasons. The primary reason though is the ease of access to cable television in Spanish as well as a weekly newspaper in Spanish. In the United States it is pobably the most practical second language you could learn with some regional exceptions.
It has been now about 7 years since I decided to learn Spanish and I feel
like the last year in particular has been the most effective and beneficial.
In this entire process I've learned a lot of interesting things about
myself, how I learn and how people generally learn and come to some conclusions
on how I will approach refreshing and bettering on my understanding of
the German language which is next on my list. For much of the task of
memorizing whether it be pronunciation or actual vocabulary words I highly
encourage the use of spaced repetition flash card software. For the sake
of brevity, I'll just say that the concept is that you review your memory
items each day which may take anywhere from 5-30 minutes. You grade yourself
on how well you know or didn't know the memory items and then pick back
up tomorrow. The software uses your self rating to decide when to present
the information to you again. It has been one year since I started using
mnemosyne which is a spaced repetition software program and I credit it
for a vast increase in my Spanish language vocabulary.
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Published - March 2010
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