Tag: language learning
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Use that language or lose it!
When I left Vietnam in December of 2003 after living there for nearly 10 years, I was fluent in the language. I could hold a conversation with anyone on most any non-technical topic (and even some of those if they were related to history or culture.) I revisited Vietnam and 2005 and felt like I […]
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The Best Way to Learn a Language: Follow YOUR Goals
The methodologies of language learning are as various and self-inflated as political opinions on Capitol Hill. Every language guru thinks her method is the best, the truest, the most sure-fire way to conquer a new language in 30 days, or six months, or one year. I’d like to make this declaration: all language methodologies are […]
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When Language Learning, ask “how” not “why”
A wise man once told me, as I was about to head off overseas for the first, “Don’t ask ‘why’ ask ‘how’.” I’ve never forgotten this good advice. If you really want to learn a language, or if you are living in a new culture and really want to fit in, questioning the legitimacy of […]