Fluent in 3 Months
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Benny Lewis. Fluent in 3 Months
CONTENTS
My Story, Your Passion
The Way to Learn a Language Is to Live It
What’s Your Motivation?
The Missing Ingredient: Passion
Give Yourself Goose Bumps
How Far Are You Willing to Go?
The Right Mentality Will Launch You Forward
Follow-Up
Destroying Twenty Common Language-learning Myths
Most Myths Are Just Excuses
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
What Fluency Isn’t
What Fluency Is
The CEF System
How Much Time Do You Need to Reach Fluency?
Various Grades of Success
Mini-Missions
Burnout
Plan of Action
How to Learn Thousands of Words Quickly
Rote Rehearsal: Why the Memorization We’re Taught in School Doesn’t Work
The Keyword Method for Learning Words Quickly
Gare
Mùbiāo
Other Examples
How Can You Come Up with These Associations?
Spaced Repetition: Another Great Way to Build Vocabulary Quickly
Using Music to Learn Phrases
Memorizing Minute-Long Speeches for Smoother Intros
Words Are Your Arsenal
Immersion Without Buying a Plane Ticket
The Expat Problem
When You Should Go to the Country
Attitude Versus Latitude
The Human Factor
Couchsurfing for Language Practice
Other Social Searches
In-Person Opportunities
Social Skydiving
Learning with Other Non-Natives
Consuming Media at a Distance
Online Language Exchange
A Stranger Is Just a Friend You Haven’t Met Yet
Speaking from Day One
How to Speak When You Don’t Have the Words Yet
The First Hours
Make a Plan for Your First Conversation
Spend a Couple of Hours Preparing
Your First Conversation
Cheating When You Don’t Know a Word
Keep It Simple, Stupid: Rephrasing to Keep the Flow
The First Days
Apply a Triage System to What You Learn
But I Can’t Understand the Reply!
My Two-Hour Polish Experience
Keep It All in That Language ASAP
What If the Person Replies in English?
The Jack Sparrow Method
The Glass-Clink Trick
Involve Me and I’ll Understand
Tips for Starting Specific Languages
Cognates
Conjugations
Romance Languages: Cognates
Spanish
French
Italian
Portuguese
Germanic Languages
German
Slavic Languages
Arabic
Phonetic Script
Tonal Languages
Chinese
Japanese
Irish (Gaeilge)
Sign Language
Other Languages
From Fluency to Mastery
Always Look for Ways to Improve
Traditional Learning Suddenly Becomes Useful
Dealing with Grammar
More Complex Discussions
Input: Working Towards Mastery Through Films and Books
Taking an Exam to Force Your Level up a Notch
Writing, Reading, and Listening?
Thinking in the Language
There’s a Time for Academics
How to Get Mistaken for a Native Speaker
Does an Accent Make You Seem Native?
Walk Like an Egyptian
Blending in Beyond Spoken Abilities
Rolling Your R
Singing Your Accent Away
Pronunciation or Intonation?
Intention
Hyperpolyglot: When One Is Just Not Enough
The Catch–22 of Wanting to Be a Polyglot
Learning Multiple Languages Simultaneously?
How Many Languages Can a Person Learn?
Hyperpolyglot: Richard Simcott
Not Mixing Up Languages
Grammarese
Learning One Language via Another
Live a New Life for Every Language
Free and Cheap Language-learning 2.0
Cheap Generic Courses vs Expensive Courses
The Perfect Learning Approach
What About My Learning Style?
Language Log
Language Social Networking
Conversational Connectors
Bilingual Dictionaries
Many More Resources
Conclusion
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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In late July 2003, just a couple of weeks after my twenty-first birthday, I moved to Valencia, Spain. To help me adjust to life in a foreign country, I enrolled in a Spanish class.
It was a small class, and it was taught entirely in Spanish, which was a bit of a problem for me because I only understood English. I had just graduated with a degree in electronic engineering, and I had barely passed the German and Irish* courses I took in high school and college. Languages were definitely not my thing.
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When I publicly announced on my blog that I was going to learn Chinese, a lot of Westerners who had learned Chinese tried to discourage me (though never in person, and never did a native speaker do so). They went out of their way to repeat over and over again that all my previous experience was irrelevant because I was now learning the ‘hardest language in the world’.
What I found, though, was that most of them had almost exclusively learned only Chinese. They had little or no experience with other languages. Many of them said European languages like French and Spanish were very easy, even though many learners and native speakers with much more experience in these languages disagreed. Also, it turned out Chinese wasn’t that bad after all, and I explain why in detail in chapter 6.
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