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Tips to Learn a Language 

 

TIPS TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

TIPS TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

  • REMEMBER VOCABULARY

    • Repeat several times a week

    • Read before you go to bed

    • Try to find connexion with your mother tongue  

    • Create cards

      • One side : the word

      • Other side : draw a picture

    • Associate ideas to remember words

    • Use songs to remember expressions or vocabulary

    • Don't wait too long before you need to learn

    • Use new vocabulary in context

  • WRITE

    • Use what you have learned recently

    • Take risks

    • Reread 3 times

      • 1. Check grammar

      • 2. Check vocabulary

      • 3. Check meaning, ideas

    • Handwrite

    • Be creative

    • Interleave

  • AVOID PROCRASTINATION

    • Find a quiet environment

    • Focus on learning not on the homework (Process not Product)

    • Use the Pomodoro technique : 25 minutes concentration

    • Change place

    • Do a task list

    • Believe that you can do it !

    • Reward yourself

  • TEST YOURSELF

    • Avoid stress

    • Start learning weeks / days before

    • Deliberate Practice, repeat, recall

    • Don't overlearn

    • Avoid illusion learning

    • Don't reread things that you already know

    • Sleep well before the test

  • PRACTICE GRAMMAR

    • Interleave

    • Practice with friends

    • Explain what you understood from the lesson

    • Test yourself regularly by doing  exercises

    • Use metaphors to visualize

    • Don't look at the answers immediately

    • Don't underline too much

    • Don't try to translate everything

  • SPEAK

    • Create chunks

    • In a friendly environment

    • Practice regularly

    • Don't focus on your accent

    • Build confidence

  • LISTEN & UNDERSTAND

    • Go from global to details

    • See the big picture

    • Get the key ideas

    • Don't get stuck, move on

  • USE OTHER TIPS

    • + - Success = perseverance + passion

      • success = persevere + passion

    • Learn bits by bits

    • Practice sports

    • Sleep well

    • Don't get stuck, go back later

    • Don't multi-task

    • Mistakes are ok ! You are learning !

    • Start with hard things, then easier things to learn

    • Einstellung : sometimes, you need to unlearn and relearn  

    • Lady Luck Favors the One who Tries

    • Use emotions to learn

      • Reward

      • Connect ideas with personal life

      • Use songs, drawings, etc.

      • Visualization

  • LEARN CIVILIZATION

    • Close your book and recall

    • Use spatial memory

    • Read is NOT learn

 

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