How To Master New Languages

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One language sets you in a corridor for life. Every new language you learn opens a door along the way.

  I wanna share with you my method of learning languages on my very own without any language school, teacher or book. This method is called the Pimsleur method.
   As you may or may not know other than Hungarian and English I also speak Italian. I've pick up the Italian in the summer of 2011, so not that long ago. I've started to learn it with the help of and Italian teacher in order to catch up and be able to attend an Italian class in high school. Although I've had help, I wanted to have some boost so I started to look for some additional ways I can improve my Italian skills. That's how I came across the Pimsleur method.
  I've always had problems with sitting still for an hour or so and just running through lists of words again and again and expecting to not lose the motivation and just say fuck it. From the very early ages when I started to learn English at elementary school I knew that was not the way to learn to communicate with people in another language so I skipped the lessons and there wasn't one occasion when I did my homework of listing heaps of words out from a dictionary. But when it was the time for the tests I always got the best marks so the teachers had no choice but to bring me to these elementary school English competitions where we had to just talks and use the language as it meant to be, and I even placed 1st occasionally although the others were studying hard and whatever meanwhile I didn't give a single fuck. At that time I did not know anything about Pimsleur. I did three things that unintentionally led me to speak English better then my classmates: 

• I was listening to Eminem all day, every day and after I came across the translation of one of his songs, I wanted to fully understand all of em. So I started to focus more to try hearing out more expressions and sentences I could understand and eventually I started to google the stuff I could not figure out.
• The second thing was that I loved basketball. At that time we had only 1 tv in the family and there was always someone watching it. Because of that if I had to watch my NBA games online where they don't have commentary in my language.

• The third and probably most important thing is that whenever I came across english-speaking foreigners, no matter how badly I was speaking I was not shy about it and with all my effort I was about to make myself understood and just communicate.

I honestly think this is the only way you can master a language. By using it. Not by filling out exercise books. 

How to start learn a lenguage from ZERO?With the Pimsleur method!

With the Pimsleur method you gonna listen to audio tapes that introduces you to the basics of your chosen language. It mimics the natural learning process of the human beings.
Here is the methodology:

1. Anticipation

   Language courses commonly require a student to repeat after an instructor, which Pimsleur argued was a passive way of learning. Pimsleur developed a "challenge and response" technique, where a student was prompted to translate a phrase into the target language. This technique is intended to be a more active way of learning, requiring the student to think before responding. Pimsleur held that the principle of anticipation reflected real-life conversations in which a speaker must recall a phrase quickly.

2. Graduated-interval recall

   Graduated interval recall is a method of reviewing learned vocabulary at increasingly longer intervals. It is a version of retention through spaced repetition. For example, if a student is introduced to the word deux (French for two), then deux is tested every few seconds, then every few minutes, then every few hours, and then every few days. The goal of this spaced recall is to help the student move vocabulary into long-term memory.

   Pimsleur's 1967 memory schedule was as follows: 5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day, 5 days, 25 days, 4 months, 2 years.

3. Core vocabulary

   The Pimsleur method focuses on teaching commonly-used words in order to build up a "core vocabulary". Word-frequency text analyses indicate that a relatively small core vocabulary accounts for the majority of words spoken in a particular language. For example, in English, a specific set of 2000 words composes about 80% of the total printed words^. Pimsleur courses average 500 words per level (30-lessons). Some languages have up to 4 levels, while some lesser developed languages only have one level.

   The Pimsleur method never teaches grammar explicitly. Instead, grammar is presented as common patterns and phrases that are repeated at intervals throughout the course. Pimsleur claimed this is how native speakers learn grammar as children.

4. Organic learning

   The program is strictly auditory. Pimsleur suggested auditory skill, learned through hearing and speech, is different than reading and writing skill. He referred to his auditory system as "organic learning," which entails studying grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation simultaneously. Pimsleur asserted that learning by listening also enjoins the proper accent.

 As I'm not using Pimsleur for Italian anymore, a couple moths ago I've started to learn Dutch following the Pimsleur method. Of course I just got started and I'm at the very beginning but It goes really well. If anyone would have and intentions helping me with that language I would really appreciate it and please just contact me on Twitter or Facebook.

So with that said If you want to learn a new language I highly recommend you getting your hands on the Pimleur's language courses in one way or another. It is available in loads of languages not just the major ones. I feel like it really works for me so I think it can work for other people too.

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