The three ingredients to easily speak any language: The lazy-fun approach by Szilard Kristóf Kovács

Author:Szilard Kristóf Kovács [Kovács, Szilard Kristóf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Szilárd Kristóf Kovács
Published: 2016-01-23T18:30:00+00:00

C H A P T E R I I I

The three Ingredients

LISTEN, LISTEN… ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?

Can you imagine Christmas without Santa or mathematics without numbers? I surely can’t, just as I cannot imagine language learning without listening. You can and you should avoid studying grammar and vocabulary but never avoid listening.

Listening is the most passive and effortless activity you could do and yet it is indispensable by learning a new language. It is the secret technique that babies use to pick up their first language and if we adults want to speed up our progress, we should just listen on a daily basis. As I already mentioned, it is not that babies are smarter than us adults, but that they are constantly exposed to the language of their environment and they are learning it with little or no effort from their part.

If you can create similar conditions for yourself, you are going to get the same results. Ideally, you would have to move to the country where your target language is spoken and let the rest take care of itself. Your progress would increase dramatically without any conscious effort from your side. Why? Because you couldn’t just use your language anymore. You would have to rely on your creativity and non-verbal communication to interact with the people around you and the only conversations you would listen to would be on your target language. You have probably realized that you can learn faster if you can just focus on one thing. When you are learning a new language from your home, your brain constantly has to switch between your native language and the one you are learning, thus jeopardizing your progress. Being only exposed to your target language simplifies learning and speeds up your progress.

Remember that if you want to speak your target language fluently you have to listen to it as much as you can and if you want to write it fluently, you have to read it as much as you can.

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