I love learning languages, but let’s face it, it is supremely difficult, especially for your second language. Whether you are hoping to begin a language or is currently learning a new one, my only advise is to not give up.
I am fluent in chinese and english and have learnt japanese in school for 3 years, in which everything is useless except hiragana, katakana and kanji learnings. Currently, i have started and overlapped my language learning with a new addition, Polish. Languages are truely works of art, they are found to be able to shape a part of our personalities and spesch styles.
A bilingual person often find themselves to have a different personality when you switch languages. It is found that people perceive the world differently depending on the language, one of the main reason being the grammar and vocabulary. For example some languages, such as Russian, may have several words with the exact same meaning but with different tones and emotions. Talking about emotions, some languages have words that are more fit to express their feeling than others.
Ever had a thought that you can not express your emotion with words? Learn a language that you can express these emotions, for example, french for feelings of love.
Often when bilinguals feel emotions that can not be expressed through tneir native language, they tend to find themselves converting to a more preferable second language. Think about how switching a language can tranform a whole personality, isn'tit simply fascinating!
By learning a new language, people tend to be more empathetic towards others, how? It is because language involves studying their culture and understanding the natives. This allows bilinguals to understand other people around them better thus suggesting the factor of empathy.
The art of languages paints an entire scene of a new country before your eyes allowing you to feel culture, natives and words. You feel like starting a language now or restarted one in which you gave up on? Go for it! Here are some hints as to how to start:
As simple as it says, use google. Yep. Search for words that you want to learn and write them down.
Find an app to learn the language, some good ones are duolingo, memrise.
Try a language exchange app to learn each other’s language, however you need to sacrifice time to teach them and change over, Some good apps like tandem, lext talk, bilingua.
Can’t get apps? Check websites and blogs such as fluentin3month, rype, mezzofanti guild, FluentU, omniglot blog…
Keep a notebook for each language, a big fat notebook, trust me, you will need it. Take note lf every unknown word and write the meaning and pronunciation beside it.
Make flashcards, a pile of them. Randomly pick out 10 daily and aim to memorise them during the course of that day, a week is certainly fine if you struggle with the language. Take longer to learn is always better than rushing the process leaving your mind blank.
Do your favourite activties and involve the language you want to learn in some way, for example audiobooks during exercise; draw a comic using that language ; listen to music in that language and try to figure out the meanings. Speak it, practice and practice.
Check youtube or websites for pronunciations, speak more and it implants to your brain, allowing higher chance of spelling being correct and advancing through faster. OK, you are probably tired and thinking what is that article about. One term, art os languages. Consider learning one and you will understand the benefits.
God, it is2 am here, i gotta sleep, i had a long day today. I will see if i can write about something tomorrow, until then, good bye!
