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How to Learn a Foreign Language |
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Written by Gadiandi
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Sunday, 18 February 2007 |
MindTools has a few good tips to learn a foreign language including the following:
- Using Mnemonics to link words - English: grumpy - French: grognon - a grumpy man groaning with irritation.
- The Town Language Mnemonic - To use the
technique, choose a town that you are very familiar with. Use objects
within that place as the cues to recall the images that link to foreign
words.
- The hundred most common words - Tony Buzan, in
his book ‘Using your Memory’, points out that just 100 words comprise
50% of all words used in conversation in a language. Learning this core
100 words gets you a long way towards being able to speak in that
language, albeit at a basic level.
Challenge: See if you can give all of the 100 most common words in the language that you are learning!
Read more at Mindtools.
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