Learning languages with limericks

If you are serious about language learning you will not just try to learn vocabulary and do the homework, if you really want to learn a language I believe and excellent way is to start using it like a native, use it for fun. Here is an example, of the winner inan English limericks contest:

Computers and teachers
Louise Zammit who is 14 and took first prizes in a local contest for language learning with Limericks. Here is a sample of what she has done while learning English.

There was a teacher called Mike
Who nearly fell off his bike
The fault was a bee
But he blamed it on me
And that is what teachers are like.

Now onto computers I go
And I must say that some are quite slow
They’ve got all these viruses
Which give you the sinuses
‘Coz the antivirus version is low.

Now computers may be used in a good way
And not as my teacher might say
Some have the internet
Which is very good to get
You’re stuck to the screen for a whole day.

Did Shakespeare use Microsoft Word?
Teachers say that a quill he preferred
And it’s certainly clear
That he word-processed ‘Lear’
And he grammar checked ‘Richard the Third’.

Can you image if you used and stretched your imagination in this way with your target foreign language. I think if you want to learn a language fast you need to get out of traditional learning and have fun with the language.

Tags: How to learn a language, limericks