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11Jun

11 Jun 2020

Comment Apprendre Le Chinois : Mes 6 Meilleures Astuces

J’ai appris le mandarin il y a 50 ans. Il m’a fallu 9 mois pour atteindre un niveau où je pouvais traduire des journaux de l’anglais au chinois et du chinois à l’anglais, lire des romans et être d’interprète. J’ai fait cela au temps des magnétophones à bobine, bien avant l’âge de l’internet, des dictionnaires […]

09Jun

9 Jun 2020

How Long to Get to a Conversational Level in a Language?

Motivation

Conversation implies a two-way exchange of language. Therefore, reaching a conversational level implies quite a high level of comprehension of the language so that we can understand what is being said to us. That means in order to converse properly we need to prepare ourselves.

02Jun

2 Jun 2020

Levels of Language Proficiency: What Is Fluency?

Learning Techniques

I recently watched a video which features polyglots Luca Lampariello and Anthony Lauder. In it they make the point that you don’t need to have a large vocabulary in order to be fluent. Anthony has said in the past that even with a few hundred words you can be fluent, or you can be fluent at a relatively low level of proficiency in a language. I don’t agree at all.

28May

28 May 2020

ポリグリット」の定義

日本語

ポリグロット、つまり多言語に通じる者として、私は自分の話せる言語を使うのが好きです。自分の出来具合を見るをが好きです。しかしパフォーマンスの要素というのがありますね。あなたは私より上手？私はあなたより上手？気になりますか？一部の人たちは言語学習の要素を楽しみます。私たちの多くは誰かが自分より上手く話すのを聞くと、実際とてもハッピーな気持ちになるんです。称賛の気持ちでいっぱいになります。例えひとつの言葉しか話さない人でも、とても上手に話す人には畏敬の念を抱きます。しかしもちろん、皆が皆そのような反応をするとは限りません。中には自分の言語レベルを見せることに臆病になる人もいます。

26May

26 May 2020

Why learn French? Six Reasons

Learning French

To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy language learners resemble each other. They develop a passion for the language they are learning. Each unhappy language learner, on the other hand, finds his or her own reason to be turned off. I got turned on to French flair long ago and my passion for French has stayed with […]

19May

19 May 2020

How to Learn English Fast

Learning English

If you really want to learn English fast, here is what you do. This advice is valid for other languages as well. The only difference between English and other languages is that most people learning English have had a lot of classroom instruction, which is not usually the case for learners of other languages. […]

14May

14 May 2020

Tipps, um Russisch zu lernen

Deutsche

Vor etwa 12 Jahren habe ich angefangen, auf eigene Faust Russisch zu lernen, und ich bin am Ball geblieben. Heute kann ich Romane auf Russisch lesen, Filme und Radiointerviews verstehen sowie ziemlich sicher sprechen, allerdings mit Fehlern. Ich habe für Sprachlernkonferenzen in Russland Präsentationen auf Russisch erstellt und wurde auf Russisch interviewt. Ich war schon […]

12May

12 May 2020

Similarities & Differences Between the Slavic Languages

Learning Russian

The most popularly spoken Slavic languages are Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian in the east, Polish, Czech and Slovakian in the west and then the the languages of the former Yugoslavia in the south.

07May

7 May 2020

Как выучить китайский: Мои топ 6 советов

русский

Я учил мандаринский диалект китайского языка 50 лет назад. У меня ушло девять месяцев на то, чтобы довести свой язык до того уровня, когда я мог переводить газетные статьи с английского на китайский и с китайского на английский, читать романы и переводить разговоры людей. И я добился этого во времена шпульного магнитофона, задолго по появления […]

05May

5 May 2020

How To Learn Portuguese

Learning Portuguese

Many of us are watching the Olympics in Brazil. Despite all of the bad reports that we always get in the lead up to any Olympic Games – some British newspaper called the 2010 Vancouver Winter games the worst Olympics in the world ever, then there were all the problems with toilets in Sochi and now pollution in Rio – it looks like actually things are proceeding swimmingly, so to [...]

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