When you are learning another language on your own with programs, it is easy to get scattered. You start one program, then you get distracted and decide you will watch someone’s Youtube videos instead. Pretty soon you are doing something else. Sound familiar? If not, likely you have already learned how to focus your attention……
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My name is Rosana Hart & I explore what works best when we learn new languages. See my bio for more. Do know that if you buy something after clicking through from here, I may make a commission. That doesn't influence my opinions; as a former librarian, I have a lot of experience in evaluating products.One way to increase your vocabulary is to read a book in whatever language you are learning. This would be easier in Spanish or French than in Chinese or Thai where the way they write is so different. Even Chinese pinyin, Chinese characters transcribed to English, is probably a bit harder than say Spanish. For…
Here is a quick tip that applies to this website and also to many others you may go to: Use the sitemap of the site to see what is there that might interest you. Here is the link to my Learn Languages Rapidly Sitemap. You can see all the articles I have written on Chinese,…
Want to work on your conversation abilities in a language you already know something about? See if you can find someone who speaks that language as a native and would like to speak better English.Then do a conversation exchange where you get together and practice speaking for a while in one language and then in…
Here’s another way to work on whatever language you are learning: find an internet radio station in that language and make a habit of playing it, both at times when you can concentrate but also when you are doing other things. For example, I just googled internet radio french. I had a lot of choices…
This is not the most frugal of my tips on learning another language, but it is arguably one of the most enjoyable! Go somewhere where the people speak the language that you are learning. This does not have to involve a trans-continental flight (though of course it could if you can afford it). In every…
How do you remember what you learn of a new language? The best way to do this is to review. Ideally, you would review within about an hour of when you learned something. Then the next day. Then the next week. Then the next month. All this review would help to put the new vocabulary…
No time right now to really throw yourself into learning a language? Learn one word a day, or three words a day, or even five! There are a lot of sites around the net that offer one word a day, so that is one way you could do it if you happened to be at…
Want to get better at speaking Spanish, Chinese, French, or any other language? Spend a few minutes online looking around Youtube, with its wealth of choices… for example, I just put “learn chinese mandarin” into the Youtube search box. Then I looked for the most viewed of the choices and clicked through to begin watching…