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How to Learn Any Language 23
Un-American Sounds
So far we’ve shied away from words containing sounds that don’t exist in English. The real world won’t be so protective.
“Un-American” sounds are exaggerated as an obstacle to progress in most languages. I say that not because it’s unimportant to master ...
- 2007-04-23 12:02
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How to Learn Any Language 22
The Almosters
The skeptic has one shot left before he’s wiped out by the power of the method. He can, at this point, say, “Hold it! Every word you’ve used to demonstrate the system so far falls much too neatly into our lap – liar, mole-yay. It’s a setup. It’s not real. Ve ...
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How to Learn Any Language 21
WAIT A MINUTE!
An enemy, a skeptic, even a queasy ally at this point could say, “Wait a minute. I’m trying to learn a language. I’m not sure I want to walk around with a headful of images of wives who keep moles, chickens that play polo, angry people emitting cold air, an ...
- 2007-04-23 12:01
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How to Learn Any Language 20
Harry Lorayne’s Magic Memory Aid
How does a farmhand feel the day the tractor arrives, after he’s plowed by hand for thirty-one years? Undoubtedly the way I felt when, after decades of memorising foreign vocabulary the old way, I suddenly discovered Harry Lorayne and hi ...
- 2007-04-22 11:09
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How to Learn Any Language 19
Eye-Ear and Ear Only Moments
So far your hidden moments have been those that could be utilised either for reading (flash cards) or listening (cassettes). Let’s call them eye-ear moments. When you’re walking through town or through the park, jogging, riding in a bus or tra ...
- 2007-04-22 11:08
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How to Learn Any Language 18
Hidden Moments
They taught us in the fable of the tortoise and the hare so early, most of us dismissed it as a children’s tale and ignored the powerful lesson it contains: Others may be brighter. Others may learn quicker and retain more. Yet whosoever keeps on plodding re ...
- 2007-04-22 11:07
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How to Learn Any Language 17
And right they’d be, if that were all you were doing. But you are now accumulating flash cards with vocabulary and moving through lesson seven or eight of the grammar, so don’t feel you have to apologise for learning how to parrot a few handy phrases.
Your ability to ban ...
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How to Learn Any Language 16
In cases 3 and 4, either the word’s not in the dictionary or it’s not there in any form recognisable to you. Enter the word on a question card.
You may have four or five complete cards, eighteen or twenty words defined and ready to be learned, from the first paragraph in ...
- 2007-04-22 11:06
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How to Learn Any Language 15
Into the Real World
When you’ve served out your sentence of five lessons of grammar, spread out all your other tools (you should regard them as “toys”) and prepare to use them all simultaneously.
Take the newspaper or magazine. Go to the upper left hand corner of page one ...
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How to Learn Any Language 14
The Multiple Track Attack
So is there really a magic way to make learning a foreign language painless?
Yes and no. We have some magic, all right, tricks and tactics that literally shovel the language into your head, as opposed to your high school Spanish class that teasp ...
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How to Learn Any Language 13
BLANK CASSETTES
We have do it yourself gasoline pumps. We do not have do it yourself eye surgery. It may seem strange to some (and wildly objectionable to others) to recommend do it yourself language cassettes starring you in the language you are trying to learn. Orthodo ...
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How to Learn Any Language 12
CASSETTE COURSES
There are many cassette courses in many foreign languages. They range from “travel” cassettes, really simple tourist phrase books set to sound and costing between ten and twenty dollars, clear up to multicassette study courses that carry the student into ...
- 2007-04-22 11:03
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How to Learn Any Language 11
Gathering Your Tools
You’ve decided which language you’re going to learn, and you’ve made a deal with the grammar of that language: you agree to learn it, and in return it agrees not to rush you, bore you, discourage you, or hurt you.
Now it’s time to go shopping. Find a ...
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How to Learn Any Language 10
French or Tagalog:
Choosing a Language
What are your language objectives?
This is not merely one of those abstract questions universities and fitness centres like to annoy you with before they accept your application.
Are you planning to marry a German and live in German ...
- 2007-04-21 13:40
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How to Learn Any Language 9
Now let the adult mind enter and make peace. Obviously, no language tries to be hard just to keep you out. Whatever rules you find perplexing in your target language, that language came by them naturally and organically. Grammar does change, but so slowly you’ll never have ...
- 2007-04-21 13:36
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