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What advice wil you give to somebody who is just starting to learn a foreign language
First of all Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing, but it does get easier over time because you learn from your mistakes and you get to know yourself better as a learner. The best thing is that you can considerably shorten your learning curve by learning from other people’s mistakes. and it's an important thing that’s anybody may need if they are discussing to move to a new country that’s her people speak another language or he need it for a job or anything .
So my advice to you will divided to two sections the first section what is the thing you should be rigorously followed, even if you were taking a language course. And the other section is a common mistakes that some language learners make and you should avoid them to be on your way to fluency .
From the first section I will give you five important advices to start learning a foreign language:
1) Spend the time: By far the most important factor is how much time you are immersed in the language. The more time you spend with the language, the faster you will learn. This means listening, reading, writing, speaking, and studying words and phrases. This does not mean sitting in class looking out the window, nor listening to other students who do not speak well, nor getting explanations in your own language about how the language works. This means spending time enjoyably connected to the language you are learning.
2) Listen and read every day: Listen wherever you are on your MP3 player. Read what you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can mostly understand, or even partly understand. If you keep listening and reading you will get used to the language. One hour of listening or reading is more effective than many hours of class time.
3) Focus on words and phrases: Build up your vocabulary, you’ll need lots. Start to notice words and how they come together as phrases. Learn these words and phrases through your listening and reading. Read online, using online dictionaries, and make your own vocabulary lists for review. Soon you will run into your new words and phrases elsewhere. Gradually you will be able to use them. Do not worry about how accurately you speak until you have accumulated a plenty of words through listening and reading.
4) Take responsibility for your own learning: If you do not want to learn the language, you won’t. If you do want to learn the language, take control. Choose content of interest, that you want to listen to and read. Seek out the words and phrases that you need to understand your listening and reading. Do not wait for someone else to show you the language, nor to tell you what to do. Discover the language by yourself, like a child growing up. Talk when you feel like it. Write when you feel like it. A teacher cannot teach you to become fluent, but you can learn to become fluent if you want to.
5) Relax and enjoy yourself: Do not worry about what you cannot remember, or cannot yet understand, or cannot yet say. It does not matter. You are learning and improving. The language will gradually become clearer in your brain, but this will happen on a schedule that you cannot control. So sit back and enjoy. Just make sure you spend enough time with the language. That is the greatest guarantee of success.
That were the most important advice to you now let's give you some from the second section.
1. Approaching learning as homework: Learning a language shouldn’t be seen as “homework,” but rather as an enjoyable process to open up a world of opportunities and reach a personal goal. Learn how to actually enjoy the language you’re learning by not only getting stuck with textbooks, grammar drills and flashcards.
2. Waiting too long before speaking: speaking a language is a skill, just like driving a car or playing a musical instrument is. No matter how muchknowledge you gain about it through books, your skill is unlikely to truly improve unless you practice it. Others want to wait until they can make next to no mistakes before opening their mouth so as not to embarrass themselves.
3. Lack of confidence: too many people start learning a foreign language with the wrong mindset. “It’s too hard,” “It’s too boring,” “I won’t make it,” or any similar type of thinking will drag you down and may even turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Be careful not to confuse competence with confidence. Competence is the ability to do something, whereas confidence is your belief about your competence.
Conclusion: My belief is that everybody has the ability to learn a foreign language. After all, You just have to learn to step outside of your comfort zone and believe in yourself. You will have, one day or another, to get over your fear of speaking the language with natives. You will have to get over your fear of being ridiculed (don’t worry, it most likely won’t happen) or of not being perfect (nobody is). As long as you’re confident in yourself and in your ability to learn a language and use it to communicate with natives, the rest will follow its natural course.
