Now that you have read part one and cancelled that class, you are ready to prepare for learning a new language. Follow the steps below before you start and you will be on the way
How you set up to do a task will often determine your success rate as much as the actual implementation. [...]
Prequel: Are you ready to learn a language?
Drop your class and separate school from language learning.
Learning a new language in school is painful: hours upon hours of conjugation, sentence writing, and lecture from a teacher who will rehash the same material over and over. Maybe you don’t get it, maybe you got it right away, [...]
And it should have taken fewer than 2.
This article probably should have been written 2 years ago, but I didn’t have any place to share it publicly and I wasn’t as clear as I am now that it is possible to learn language even faster and more comprehensively than I previously did. I’m [...]
The Short Answer: It Depends
The Long Answer: It Depends and Never
As I mentioned in a previous article, learning language requires the correct motivation. A spoken language is different than, for example, a programming language: as a skill it cannot be effectively learned from home past the initial phases, while C++ can be. The [...]
What do you do in your free time in your home country? Do you play sports? Video games? Watch TV? Write a blog? Sing? Whatever it is you do in your home country, it is even more important that you keep doing it when you go abroad. This [...]
