Archive for March, 2012
Learn a Language – Naturally Posted by Sean Young on Mar 29, 2012 in Archived Posts
Have you ever been bored? You don’t want to be where you are, or you’re watching a movie seems to take forever to end? The brain is like a child. It likes things that are relevant and interesting, things that will keep its attention for hours. Of course, when a language is new, it’s interesting…
Improving Your Speaking Skills Posted by Sean Young on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts
Human speech organs can produce almost 800 different sounds. Babies and small children can hear all these possible phonemes, but soon develop a preference for the sounds they hear in their native language. Children also tend to be very good mimics which enables them to learn foreign languages faster and with native sounding accents. When…
Expand Your Learning Posted by Sean Young on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts
Your language learning experience should never be limited to just the books and CDs of the language course alone. Here are some great ways to make it a part of your life! Web Sites The Internet is an endless resource for language learning materials. With just a few clicks, you can have newspapers, magazines, reference…
Improving Your Listening Skills Posted by Sean Young on Mar 19, 2012 in Archived Posts
When you are going through your daily routine, which one of these activities do you find yourself doing the most – Reading? Speaking? Writing? Listening? The top answer is listening. For most of the day, you listen to someone speaking to you, you listen to your MP3 player or streaming Internet radio, you overhear conversations…
What the **** did you just say? Posted by Transparent Language on Mar 13, 2012 in Archived Posts
How Transparent Language Handles Teaching Language Learners Everything They Need to Know. And We Mean Everything. Profanity. It’s a fact of everyday life, the preferred method of self-expression amongst teenagers, and the secret longing of most foreign language students. Almost as soon as the basics of numbers and greetings are learned, like clockwork, learners start to ask…
Why We Reach a Plateau in Learning a Language Posted by Sean Young on Mar 10, 2012 in Archived Posts
Look at the picture above. Do you see that huge piece of flat land coming up from the ground in the distance? That is called a “plateau”. Why is this in a language learning blog and not a geography blog? Just like when you’re driving across the desert, a plateau may be right there up…
Take It Step-By-Step Posted by Sean Young on Mar 1, 2012 in Archived Posts
In my previous post, I mentioned “Just like you can’t eat an entire meal in one bite, learning a language must be studied a little at a time“. That means taking your lessons and breaking them down into smaller, more manageable chunks. Even if you’re just learning from one small paragraph in 20 minutes, that’s…