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A.G. CHELPACHENKO
Preface
Table of Contents. Chapter I. Challenges in learning languages
Classic language learning methods
Self-study book
Audio and video materials
Language lexical enrichment
Native speaker
Social Media
Multimedia Courses
Chapter III. Language Learning Practices
Key Tips
Postface
Getting languages easier to learn
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.
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Having learned something, while speaking, you will not have to «reinvent the wheel», constantly remembering words and straining to come up with a suitable expression.
In the post-Soviet period, the so-called academic method prevailed in teaching foreign languages i.e., they taught, first of all, to speak correctly by teaching grammar. However the teaching was usually poor, and as a result, only the temporal forms of irregular verbs were kept from the school knowledge. In the West (in the broad sense) they do things differently. There they teach mainly speech clichés, which are easily memorized in the natural environment of communication. Pay attention to the way Germans, Dutch, and «other Scandinavians» speak English, for example, effortlessly «shooting out» long sentences. Compare this to the agonizing search for every next word with endless «uh-uhs» and even scratching in the back of the head, typical of our compatriots who studied under the Soviet and post-Soviet systems. Our children, young people who have been trained by them, speak as easily as foreigners.
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