Learn a language

Language and pronunciation
Languages which are little spoken, such as Polish or Ukrainian, might be hard at first in terms of pronunciation, not because you are not good with languages but because the native speakers of these languages have never herd any non natives speak their language, therefore, their brains are not wired to understand non [...]

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Diet and learning
 
You do not have to go crazy with this but in my own experience these are the things that make me perform better mentally. I am not a doctor and recommending these but they work for me. How I test this objectively? I play chess online. My rating will fluctuate by over 100 [...]

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Verbs
Real action in understanding language by Dawn Wiseman from Universite Concorde Journal-De Almeida’s Psycholinguistic and Cognition Lab focuses largely on understanding how information gleaned from verbs, and verbs in sentences, structures our overall comprehension of meaning.
“Verbs are the key elements in sentences,” he explained. “They tell us who did what to whom.”
De Almeida and his [...]

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new language and your native language

Science of language-Bilingual brain by Nigel Praitis sciencefirst-Too many words? The brains of bilingual children are able to distinguish between the two languages.
Yet the brain is remarkable in being able to distinguish between two languages. Bilingual children may take slightly longer to utter their first word but they quickly learn [...]

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Love and languages
This may see rather cliché, but I have never, meet someone in a relationship with someone who did not start picking up the language though osmosis. My girlfriend could barely speak English when I met her. After two years in our relationship she teaches English and my Polish is pretty good. It is [...]

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Computer game to learn a language
Although not the most straightforward way of learning, I pay chess and computer games on foreign servers. For me example, I play chess on the Polish server “Kurnik” . It is a large game international server but most of the chatting is in Polish and I choose the Polish interface [...]

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Learn abstract words
Language is first and foremost an abstraction. Why did humans invent language? To convey things that could not be shown to others concretely. Many learning aids and traditional method lessons are ineffective because they emphasis concrete things during the first year of learning. That is nouns about such as “dog”, “cat”, “grandfather”, “Fireman”, [...]

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Chinese

Chinese language is on the rise by Pauline Vu from Stater online-American students have been learning to say “hola” and “bonjour” for years now, but lately, more and more of them are learning to say “ni hao.” An interest to learn Chinese has surged in the United States as China has risen as a global [...]

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Music and language learning

Music is the key to learning English as a second language from Asbury Park Press- Rose Powers, 44, of Metechun teaches English and uses creative ways to make learning a language easy and fun. Powers uses Pod-Casts on a video I-Pod in addition to books and worksheets. She also incorporates music [...]

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How to learn a language
 
I have taught languages for several years. Initially my lessons were quite traditional. Grammar and typical structured lessons. Latter I developed many techniques.  At this point even with beginners I have changed my method. It’s the way I learned English.
Reading, Writing and conversation.
Since most of the people I teach are adults [...]

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