How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself: 45 Proven Tips for Language Learners
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How to Learn a New Language in as Little as a Few Months – and Have a Boatload of Fun Doing It
Let me make a prediction.
I predict that many, many hundreds of people who will read this description will close this page in a few seconds.
“Learn a new language in a few months? Are you out of your mind?” they’ll say. “It’s just too good to be true.”
And they will go back to their old language learning methods.
You know which methods: toiling away at mind-numbing grammar exercises, learning words nobody uses, and, most importantly, never actually using your skills to communicate with another person.
If you’re still with me, I expect you to be different. You think there must be something better. After all, how could people master more than one foreign language in their lives if it usually takes a regular person several years just to learn the basics?
The answer is simple – in one way or another, they follow the methods I share in How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself. They not only learn up to ten times faster than other people, they also have a lot of fun while doing it.
How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself is for you if you want to learn:
- without this one thing, you’ll never learn a new language in just a few months. Learn what it is and how to apply it to your everyday life to practice your skills while doing your daily activities.
- a completely free way to get native speakers to proofread your writings (and even explain to you all of your mistakes). This one site alone can dramatically improve your writing skills.
- an extremely easy way to find a native speaker willing to help you learn her mother language. It’s almost like having a private tutor.
- the proper way to improve your listening skills while watching movies. Most people learning a foreign language do it the wrong way and it does nothing to improve their abilities.
- how to achieve more with less when learning languages. You don’t have to spend hours and hours cramming every single word and grammar rule. In fact, it works to your detriment. Learn what to do instead.
- 9 common mistakes to avoid when learning languages. Reading this chapter alone can save you years of ineffective studies – especially mistake #3, so common among language learners.
- a 5-step process to improve your reading skills. You can make your learning process much more enjoyable and effective by choosing the right things to read. Learn what these things are.
- a fun idea to learn how to write the way native speakers do. You too can learn the slang and phrases only native speakers use – and know the language better than many academic professors.
- how to dramatically improve your language skills when traveling. While it isn’t necessary to go abroad to learn a language, it’s a powerful way to cram a lot of learning into just a few days.
- 5 common challenges of language learners and how to deal with them. Learn how to get over the fear of communicating with native speakers. Discover how to find more time to learn and practice your skills. Read three tips on how to deal with discouragement.
If you’re ready to supercharge your progress and become fluent in a foreign language in as little as a few months, click the buy button.
Why kill yourself doing things the old, non-effective way, if you could make the process much easier and enjoy it more, too?
P.S. As a gift for buying my book, you’ll get a resource list with my favorite language learning sites.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think the advice that the author gives in the book are quite good, and help you to overcome issues during your language learning, i do recommend it .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very good and practical guide for language learners, by someone who has clearly walked the talk. I was already aware of some resources he mentioned, such as mylanguageexchange and italki (livemocha seems to have become commercial and owned by Rocket), but the tip to switch my phone to my second language, and finding podcasts, cartoons, and films were good. He doesn’t mention the Listen-Read method or resources available for that, but otherwise an informative and encouraging book for the language learner.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Having a degree in a foreign language and having taken several other linguistic type courses as well as courses that pertain to learning languages, I was particularly interested in this book. No, the book will not teach a language quickly. That takes a bit of time (unless you set yourself right in the middle of the country where they speak the language and don’t encounter individuals who would like to practice their English skills with you) and some effort. However, the steps listed in this book will take you right to the threshold where you can begin and continue your language study. In today’s global economy and ever-shrinking world, knowing a language other than your own can be a real plus, both professionally and personally. The author has excellent ideas and ways to help even the least adaptive to learning a language among us to learn and become proficient in a language. I highly recommend it for any aspiring students who to learn a language as well as to anyone involved in language teaching or learning a language development. It can also help those who work with individuals learning English as their second language. Finally, anyone interested in languages and learning and/or just learning will find it interesting and helpful. I received this from Library Thing to read and review.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book offers some really good advice and has ideas for language learning that I would not have thought of. Although the concepts are simple, this proves to be a bonus. Nicholson concisely gets down to the nitty-gritty and takes a commonsense approach to language learning that anyone can follow. He offers plenty of motivation and draws from his own experiences. Nicholson is good at telling you what to do without it feeling like a lecture and breaks things down in a straightforward way that is easy to understand. I will certainly be following his advice and referring back to this book as I learn Spanish!
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Let me disclose up front that I received my copy of this book as a Member Giveaway through LibraryThing. I studied French for three years at high school (and only barely passed each year) some forty years ago, but found I remembered enough that I was able to get around France when I visited there thirty years later with just the few phrases I remembered. However, just like at school, I wasn't very good at it. I asked for this book because I am thinking of going back for another visit in a couple of years. The author is correct when he ways you have to throw yourself entirely into the process of learning a language, and found he has plenty of ideas here of how to do this, many of which I had not considered before but am certainly going to use. Before going overseas in 2001 I had "brushed up" on my French by watching French movies and the French news on SBS (a multicultural television broadcaster here in Australia), and had also used the "traditional" method of language tapes. As the author points out, the former method is more valuable than the latter if you want to get the correct pronounciation, tempo and inflections of the language. Some of his other tips are also very interesting and I hadn't thought of. For example, I have always enjoyed Asterix and Tintin stories and have them in English. Why not get the original versions in French and read them? I already know the stories and the pictures will help with decyphering the text. Learn to read the foreign language the same way you learned your native language, by reading children's books, gradually increasing the intended age of the reader. I've also read and enjoyed many novels by French authors in English, so why not get Dumas, Hugo, Camus, Verne etc. in their original language? Nate Nicholson does point out in his book of tips that you shouldn't read genres you wouldn't normally read in your native language. Then there are blogs, podcasts and numerous other ways to immerse yourself in a foreign language. In short, a valuable book with plenty of tips for anyone wanting to learn another language. I for one am going to use the tips.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"How to learn any language". I think the author's idea of finding a pen pal who speaks the language you want to learn through a language exchange site is a great way to practice. I have a hard time remembering what I've learned when I don't use it.I like the authors advise on learning the alphabet in the foreign language first. Also, watching cartoons, listening to podcasts, and reading comics and children's books in another language, will make it easier and more enjoyable.
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How to Learn Any Language in a Few Months While Enjoying Yourself - Nate Nicholson
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Introduction
Chapter 1: Proper Mindset to Learn a Language Quickly
Chapter 2: Speaking Skills
Chapter 3: Listening Skills
Chapter 4: Reading Skills
Chapter 5: Writing Skills
Chapter 6: Additional Tips and Tricks to Improve Your Language Skills
Chapter 7: Nine Common Mistakes to Avoid
Chapter 8: Five Common Challenges
Afterword
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Introduction
Everyone can become fluent in a foreign language in a matter of a few months. The key, however, is to understand fluency as the ability to communicate with native speakers with relative ease, not as being 100% accurate.
Perfectionism is one of the most common obstacles for language learners who believe that if they can’t speak 100% correctly, they shouldn’t start learning a foreign language at all.
When you let go of the belief that fluency is 100% accuracy all the time, you will stop wasting time learning things that won’t lead you to fluency. You will focus on the most important things. Moreover, you will stop being so afraid of making mistakes. Consequently, you too will be able to become a fluent speaker of a foreign language in a few months.
I know it from personal experience. I taught myself Spanish in a mere few months. But here’s the key – I focused on what was useful to me, not on becoming perfect.
My definition of fluency is if you can talk with native speakers of your target language about the usual topics you like talking about in your native language, you’re fluent. I don’t have the ability to talk about astrophysics in English, so why should I demand from myself to know how to do it in Spanish, French, Italian or any other language I want to learn?
A few months after I started learning, I could have one-hour conversations with native speakers. Did I make mistakes? Sure. Did the native speakers still understand me? Absolutely. I was fluent by my definition. If you dropped me into the middle of a Spanish-speaking country, I would get by just fine.
In this book, I would like to share with you some of my most effective language learning techniques so that you too can achieve fluency in a few months. Consider each of these methods a building block to your success in learning a new language.
Chapter 1: Proper Mindset to Learn a Language Quickly
Before I share with you the most effective tips to become fluent in a language in a few months, we need to talk about the fundamentals – your mindset.
Here are three important things you have to understand before we talk about improving your language skills.
#1: Believe It’s Possible
Your mindset will have a huge influence on your results. If you believe it takes a few years to learn a language, it will take you a few years to learn it. If you believe it’s possible to become fluent in under a year, you will do it in under a year.
Don’t make excuses as to why you can’t learn a language quickly. You’re never too old to learn a