It makes sense if we take a step back, as this is how we’ve been taught to learn our entire lives. After enduring years of long nights at the library reading textbooks or hours of sitting through boring lectures, we’ve naturally transferred over this habit to language learning. But learning a language, like any skill, has already been learned from language experts around the world, who have revealed some of their best kept learning secrets. By modeling someone who has achieved what we want, we can learn from their mistakes, and get to our end result much faster. Here are 12 of the best ways to learn a language faster by 12 language experts around the world.
1. Don’t Look Up Every Single Word
2. Set Specific Goals
3. Act Like A Child
4. Learn The Cognates
5. Modal Verbs: Embracing The Infinitive
As a formula it looks a little like this: Subject + Verb + Object → Subject + Modal Verb + Object + Verb (infinitive) How is that helpful? Because it allows you to use all kinds of verbs in a great number of sentences without knowing how to conjugate each and every one of them. As long as you memorized how to conjugate the modal verbs, all you need is the infinitive form.” – Nick Schaferhoff, FluentU
6. Learn 625 Basic Words: Using Pictures, Not Translations
7. Establish Consequences
8. Focus On Immediate Immersion
“One of my more controversial pieces of advice, but one that I absolutely insist on when I advise beginners, is that you must speak the language right away if your goals in the target language involve speaking it.” – Tim Ferriss, Fourhourworkweek.com
9. Be An Active Learner
10. Mix Old Concepts With New Ones While You’re Learning
11. Let Technology Help You Out.
12. Conversation, Conversation, Conversation.
Over to you
Which of these 12 language learning tips did you resonate with the most? If you have any friends who also want to learn a new language, please share it out!
