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what is the easiest way to learn a new language?

my cousin wants to learn a language and she is having alot of trouble and cant even seem to learn at least 2 sentences ! please help!

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  • jaime
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    The easiest way to learn a language is to go to the country where it is spoken, and isolate yourself completely from your native tongue!

    Failing that...and it's actually best to do that AFTER studying some....

    PRACTICE!!!

    First, of all, you don't learn a language by learning sentences. You learn the parts, the words, the morphemes, the prefixes and suffixes and how they go together. If you memorize a sentence, that's fine. Say you memorize: Where is the Train Station? Fine...now, what if you need to know how to get to a hotel? Do you know which words to change? Do they change order? What is the verb?

    A lot, too, depends on the person and his/her learning style. If she learns better by getting up and acting out the sentence, and saying it at the same time, then she needs to DO that!

    Myself, I like to write. A LOT. I have to write and rewrite the words and the rules several times in order to learn them. Sometimes, as with a language that I am already fluent in, learning a new word is a simple task of writing it down once, but as I am learning a new language, it takes several times.

    Some people like to SEE the word. They can use flash cards and keep running through them until they know what they need to know.

    But memorizing sentences isn't learning a language...it's one of my beefs with all those travel phrase books, tapes/cds/programs. You aren't learning the language, just a few sentences.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    English is a end result of many languages- a West Germanic language that constructed from Old English, so German could also be a well option for you. Some of the English phrases additionally got here from Norman French, Latin, and Greek. Because we've got a few Latin-headquartered language affects in English, studying a Latin-headquartered language like Spanish, French, or Italian can also be less difficult as good. I suppose it could be tougher to gain knowledge of an additional language that did not use the identical style of written language like English, French, German, and so forth. audio system use. I suppose that it could be tricky to gain knowledge of a language like Arabic. Also, studying a language like Chinese (one of the vital many dialects)- in which intonation is so main could be rough.

  • 1 decade ago

    I agree with Kate J.

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