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How to Learn Any Language 38
NOUN CASES
Just as ice, water, and steam are merely different forms of the same thing, I, me, my, and mine are merely different forms of the same word. You pick the form according to what CASE you need. (Yes! You already do this in English.) Let’s advance on case now an ...
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How to Learn Any Language 37
PERSON
I am FIRST PERSON. You are SECOND PERSON. He, she, or it is THIRD PERSON. The fussbudget grammarian wants to blow the whistle right here and remind us that we, you, and they are also first, second, and third person. Don’t rush me. We’re getting to it.
NUMBER
Number ...
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How to Learn Any Language 36
NOUN
A noun is a person, place, or thing – either a tangible thing, like a block of ice or a head of cattle or your mother in law, or an intangible thing, like a concept or an emotion.
PRONOUN
The dictionary tells us that pronouns are words that serve as substitutes for n ...
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How to Learn Any Language 35
Back to Basics
“Send the manager to this table immediately,” demanded the diner in the restaurant. When the manager appeared, the diner railed, “This is the worst vanilla ice cream I’ve ever had.”
“I’m sorry, sir,” said the manager. “That’s not vanilla ice cream. That’s b ...
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How to Learn Any Language 34
Even when classes break for lunch Saturday afternoon there’s no break in the language. The groups have lunch together in the language they’re learning. Then they return to class and keep on going.
On Saturday at dusk some of the students begin to report phenomena resembli ...
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How to Learn Any Language 33
Language Power to the People
The many who crave language knowledge in America have risen in rebellion against the many who have failed (we could even say refused) to give it.
Language teaching used to be in the control of “the faculty,” a Prussian guard of grammarians w ...
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How to Learn Any Language 32
Get to Know the Family
Languages have their own happy surprises. For example, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian overlap. Learn either one, and at no extra cost you get seventy percent of the other. You may want to select a language to learn according to how much bounce it has ...
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How to Learn Any Language 31
Motivations
The ads for self study language courses stress the business, travel, cultural, and literary advantages of acquiring another language. But what about meeting girls? Or women? Or boys? Or men? Why let an old fashioned propriety quash that thoroughly proper, in f ...
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How to Learn Any Language 30
I have many times ignited what looked like spontaneous street festivals by hailing groups of people on the sidewalk in the language I heard them speaking. They frequently stop, return the greeting, and then start hobnobbing with the people in my group, leading to laughs, ...
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How to Learn Any Language 29
At No Extra Cost
You may think you have a good idea precisely how your life will improve once you’ve mastered your target language. You’re wrong. It will be much better than you think.
Unexpected good things happen to you when you learn even a little of the other guy’s la ...
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How to Learn Any Language 28
Commit Language Larceny
There are interesting lessons coiled up inside ordinary greetings in different languages.
The Estonian greeting Kuidas (käsi käib) literally means “How does your hand walk?” An old Chinese greeting is Chr bao le, mei lo? which means, “Have you had ...
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How to Learn Any Language 27
Put it in Writing
We don’t know if a peacock is impressed when he sees himself in full display in a mirror. We do know that you and I are impressed with ourselves when we behold something we’ve written in a foreign language.
Try it. If you do nothing more than copy an exe ...
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How to Learn Any Language 26
The Plunge
Americans feel, with justification, that we’re handicapped when it come to learning other languages. Smaller countries with lots of borders and lots of strange languages on the other side offer more opportunities to absorb other languages than a gigantic United ...
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How to Learn Any Language 25
Reinforcement
You now have a brand new “closet,” a foreign language vocabulary memory system that lets you hang up new words as if they were new clothes. The system just presented will work even better for you if you keep a few tips in mind.
Every example given above is ...
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How to Learn Any Language 24
Gender
The Harry Lorayne method of remembering the gender of nouns in foreign languages makes you feel downright foolish for not having thought of it yourself!
In some languages you have to remember the gender of nouns in order to adjust the articles or the endings of the ...
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