Learn a Foreign Language: How to Speak Fluently in 60 Days
Effective techniques for learning a foreign language. The author discusses his personal experience teaching and learning a foreign language.
…some skills or knowledge that they promise to somehow implant in you cranium. Language learning is one of the hottest commodities going, foreign language skills do very much to increase your employability, job qualifications, and earnings capacity.
Now for the bad news; learning to speak a foreign language fluently will take time. How long did it take you to speak your first language fluently? Could you hold an interesting conversation when you where 2 years old? 5 years old? How about when you were 12? The truth is that the brain is wired for language learning, and it is at its “best” in our…
As far as learning another language, is concerned, can I put in a word for the international language, Esperanto?
Although Esperanto is a living language, it helps language learning as well.
Five British schools have introduced Esperanto in order to test its propaedeutic values. The pilot project is being monitored by the University of Manchester and the initial encouraging results can be seen at http://www.springboard2languages.org/Summary%20of%20evaluation,%20S2L%20Phase%201.pdf
An interesting video can be seen at http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHALnLV9XU Professor Piron was a former translator with the United Nations
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net