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    50 Ways to Learn a Language
    50 Ways to Learn a Language
    50 Ways to Learn a Language
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    50 Ways to Learn a Language

    By Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell

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    Learning another language seems like an impossible task to many, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We like to think of learning a language as a journey or an adventure, where you follow clues and progress one step at a time toward your goal.

    This book provides 50 language “mini adventures” -- learning tasks that each help you find your way along your language learning path. Let language experts Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell be your guides as you take these mini adventures, based on years of academic research and experience, and incorporate them into your daily life. You'll find meaningful interactions in your target language, and you'll have fun, too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWayzgoose Press
    Release dateMar 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386008262
    50 Ways to Learn a Language

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      50 Ways to Learn a Language - Shane Dixon

      Fifty Ways to Learn a Language

      Fifty Ways to Learn a Language

      Shane Dixon

      Justin Shewell

      Wayzgoose Press

      Copyright © 2018 by Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Contents

      How to Use This Book

      Introduction

      1. Adventure Starters

      2. Adventures in Food

      3. Language Watching Adventures

      4. At Home Adventures

      5. Adventures in Social Media

      6. Adventures with Friends

      7. Read Your Own Adventure

      8. Write Your Own Adventure

      9. Strange(r) Adventures

      10. Language Learning Strategies

      Bonus tip!

      Complete List of Tips

      Additional Resources

      About the Authors

      About the Publisher

      How to Use This Book

      The activities here were selected based on several criteria:

      The activity must be, above all, academically sound. Thus, these activities all have roots, although sometimes contested, in research-based concepts.

      The activity must be, on the whole, motivational. While not every activity will be exciting or interesting to every learner, we have carefully chosen activities that represent something that most learners will want to try. You may notice that there is a sort of adventure quality to these activities, and in fact, we refer to them as mini language adventures.

      Each and every activity should be ‘level-agnostic,’ meaning that whether you are a beginner or advanced learner of the language, these activities can provide positive results.

      So pick a language, pick an activity, and start learning immediately.

      As you read the following activities, keep in mind the following suggestions:

      Review all 50 tips again and again. These ideas can be read in any order, and an idea that might sound daunting or uninteresting in one moment might feel possible and even exciting later on. Thus, getting basic familiarity with these ideas is a good way to start. Make your favorite activities a regular part of your language-learning diet.

      Use the back page. The back page provides a summary of all 50 tips to quickly remind you of all the possible activities.

      Work with others. One way to make this book really interesting is to invite or challenge others on social media (Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, for example)

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