I wish I could say that it turned me into a bilingual English/Chinese speaker but even though it gave me a solid foundation in Chinese and my first ever exposure to foreign language study, I had nothing to show for it at the end.
During this time, I was also introduced to Arabic (MSA, then Levantine, Iraqi and finally Egyptian), and by getting plugged into the local Arab community back home it became the first language after English that I became truly fluent in.
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A few years ago, I finished my Masters in Applied Linguistics where I was able to spend time researching how people learn their first and second languages. This really solidified a lot of what I had already learned through experience but it also opened my eyes to so much more.
I am a language teacher (teaching Danish to foreigners in Denmark), I am always finding myself going to the metalevel: HOW TO learn a languag is much more important to learn and to explore than focusing on smaller and more specific issues. I am so often trying to take my students to this level, but quite many mainly wants to focus on the grammar, the vocabulary, etc.
My own story is that I was not any good at English in school. Neither in high school. And I found myself not being able to smalltalk or have a real, informal conversation at all. At university I studied linguistics, but was still struggling with English. Quite annoyingly, my boyfriend (now husband), who studied law, was always better at talking in foreign languages than me. How could that be? I knew so much about languages, and still, he just managed to communicate better whereever we travelled.
I randomly found your website (via Google) while looking for other language-learning resources. I just wanted to leave a note of encouragement: it was so wonderful to see your faith in Christ listed as your first bullet point. Praise and glory be to God for you and your faith.
I just found out about LWT and used your guide for downloading the program which was successful, so thank you! However, I just wanted to ask a question. I read your reasons behind using the downloaded version rather than the web version. If my laptops hard drive was to fail, would I lose the many hours of progress I plan to make in the program? If so, I am wondering if it is a possibility to have my save file (where ever that may be saved on my computer) be uploaded to OneDrive so that if anything goes wrong I still have it.
I encountered your site by accident as I was looking to improve my language learning ability. However, I must say I am impressed with your Christ-centered lead off description of yourself, your devotion to your wife, as well as your language learning and global experiences.
I am a child of immigrants and had plenty of opportunities to learn languages. Both my parents did not speak their native languages at home (Ukrainian and Italian) but I took courses. I also took French for a number of years and am attempting to learn Spanish. Unfortunately, my language learning adventures have led to marginal success. I am blessed with great technical capability, but artistic and language expression is not one of my talents.
I would like to create a New Testament reader based on the Bible Hub interlinear presentation of the New Testament. All I want to add to it is an audio clip for each Greek word in the presentation. Does anyone know of a source for such audio clips in either Erasmian or reconstructed Koine pronunciation?
I found you by searching for good language programs.
I am going to be homeschooling my son next school year for
High school so he has to learn a language. He wants to
Learn German because I learned German in high school and
We have German relatives in Germany.
Native English, fairly fluent in Spanish, passable conversational french and
Italian, and can read Romanian and Latin to some degree. Dream
language would be classical Hebrew, but also fascinated by
Mongolian and related languages like Hungarian and Finnish.
I took four years of Spanish in High School and am now revisiting my Spanish studies (self-studying and meeting with a tutor once a week). I hope someday to turn back to Arabic as well but it feels like Spanish fluency is much more attainable at this point given the proximity of the language to English.
I am excited to stumble across your website and blog. I am an American, living in Florida currently with my wife and two daughters. My wife is pregnant with our first son and will be delivering in June.
I took Spanish in high school, then German in college for three semesters, but at the moment know only enough to mix up asking simple questions in either. I work in insurance restoration as a project manager and would love to learn how to fluently speak Spanish in order to connect more closely to those i work with, as well as increase productivity. I think it would be cool to then learn Italian and Arabic in order to increase travel with the family in the future and better understand the scriptures.
In the coming weeks I would like to begin learning from one of the platforms you recommend. I think that the Rocket language would be fun because I could practice with people locally in order for it to better sync in.
I speak Russian and Spanish in addition to English and I have also traveled extensively. I am currently in a job where unfortunately I am not using my other language skills besides English. I was curious what types of careers there were in Foreign Language and so your article on that came up in my search. It as very informative. Thank you!
Many years ago I learned German, it took me some seven to eight months to acquired the minimum necessary skills to talk/converse in German.
English took me about two months to reach the level it took me, the seven to eight months of
German. With English I did not work as hard as I did with German.
I saw a cousin of mine who learned German in about two months, after she learned English first.
So, after the first foreign language one learn to speak fluently, the next language you try to learn will be much easier.
The important thing is (as you do), to be around by people who does only speak the language you ate trying to learn.
Now, I am trying to learn Russian, this last summer I was planning to spend three month in Volgograd, for that purpose. I hope next summer I can make it, provided things (corona virus) will get better by then.
There is a British blogger in YT, who recommends not to waste time learning the Russian grammar. I am learning the grammar first of course, how about you?
Since the time I was twelve years old, my abusive parent has pushed me to attend seminary and go into ministry. He frequently threatened to kick me out of the house if I did not comply with his wishes. I began taking seminary classes in 2012, but I studied at five different seminaries during the past eight years. I was expelled from one of the seminaries where I was a student for behavioral problems (code of conduct violations and all that jazz).
Your site inspires me to learn Greek on my own (outside of my coursework) because my seminary class will undoubtedly focus on grammar and codebreaking instead of having us learn Koine Greek naturally.
MY husband died form a cancer 4 years ago just when I was turning 40 and we had a little base in Denmark were he was from to be able to do the treatment .
I did not learn danish enough to be able to speak.
Finally I can live without the big love of my life wich untill this year it was not posible for me. Just my body was alive, not me.
I have to reinvented my life so one of the things I love to do and I been good at it is teaching spanish to the locals werever I been . I like a lot your critic point of view when analizing the diferent methods of learnig and I feel I can ask you for advice and get something valueble .
when I was living in Israel I could not speak ,but I understood a lot of things of their way of speking english and what they really say when they translate directly hebrew to english .People thinks they are talking with orders being agresive just because of the use of infinitives ,that had a diferent colour in hebrew so...learning a language make you also understand a culture and their people , without that there is a piece missing in the contact .
I am starting the reserch for my new steps in life and I do it slowly and thanks for you one of those steps : be able one day to travel to Syria and know the culture deeply has already the -how to do it- done with your method .
Now the second step will be to find a profession, a job that make me happy (as hause wife does not get sense when I am a widow so...) Teaching spanish is something I love and I been doing for free and for fun everywhere I traveled .
I would love to know your opinion on wich method is a good one to base my education as a teacher today . I am really out of tecnology for many years and have no idea of the new methodology today . I see that internet is full of promises and very nice marketings and not so much of the honestity I found on your site so I would really apreciate your opinion on the education field as a language teacher, so I can do my choose from 2 or 3 instead of 1000 diferent offers that are all new for me.
I have 44 years old now and I apreciate everysecond of my remaining life . It takes a lot of efford for me to start studing after sooooo long . would love to get an education that wants to educated me and not to get my money no matter the results are.
Just wanted to say thank you and that I share your love for langauges, as well as your faith in Christ. I have been living in Honduras for the past 7 years of my life working with street children, and have been profoundly impacted by that experience. Spanish has become, in so many ways, like my heart language. I have also spent time studying some basic Quechua, Miskito, Romanian, Swedish, French and now Arabic. I am specifically interested in learning the Iraqi and/or Levantine dialects, but have yet to find a resource that I love. I would love any recommendations you have -- both as someone who values spoken dialect as well as a good grammar base. Thank you again for your inspiration!
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