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Subject:Communication andpresentation skills

 Theme:10 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time

Lecturer:M!"ukurije #$seni%"llacakuStudent:Mir&ete #$seni

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10 Rules for Learning ForeignLanguages in Record Time 1 – Learn the right words, the right way

2 – Learn cognates: your friend in every single language

3 – Interact in your language daily without traveling 4– Save your money. he !est resources are free

" – S#y$e today for daily s$o#en $ractice

%– &eali'e that adults are actually !etter language learners than #ids

( – )*$and your voca!ulary with mnemonics

+ – )m!race mista#es – -reate S/& goals

10 –ecame a $olyglot

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1 + Learn the right ,ords( the right ,a$!

Starting a ne, language means learning ne, ,ords! Lotsof them!

-f course( man$ people cite a bad memor$ for learningne, &ocab( so the$ .uit before e&en getting started!

"ut+here/s the ke$+$ou absolutel$ do not need to kno,all the ,ords of a language to speak it and in fact( $oudon/t kno, all the ,ords of $our mother tongue either2!

)03 of the e4ort $ou spend on ac.uiring ne, &ocab

could ultimatel$ gi&e $ou 503 comprehension in alanguage6for instance( in 7nglish just 300 words makeup 65% of all written material! 8e use those ,ordsa lot, and that/s the case in e&er$ other language as ,ell!

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) + Learn cognates:$our friend in e&er$ single language!

"elie&e it or not( $ou alread$6right now6ha&e ahuge head start in $our target language! 8ith

language learning $ou al,a$s kno, at leastsome ,ords before $ou e&er begin! Man$ languages also ha&e ,ords that share a

common 9reekLatin or other2 root( ,hich canbe spelled di4erentl$( such as e;emple(

h<licopt=reFr2(#elikopterl2(irport7ng2(eroportil2astronom>a( and SaturnoSpanish2(stronomial2

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? + @nteract in $our language dail$ ,ithout tra&eling!

nother reason people cite for not learning languages is that the$ can/t&isit a countr$ ,here it/s a nati&e language! Ao time( no mone$( etc

 There are countless e;pats ,ho li&ed abroad for years ,ithout learning

the local language! Li&ing abroad and being immersed is not the samething!@n our culture ,e ha&e our imigration particular$ ,omen that the$li&e in a foreign countr$ for se&eral $ears but are not able to speak thelanguage of that countr$!Ao interes!

 Technolog$ makes it possible for immersion to come to $ou( and $oudon/t e&en ha&e to bu$ a plane ticket!

  Li&ing abroad and being immersed is not the same thing!Bou don/t e&enha&e to bu$ a plane ticket! To watch the language consistentl$ there are &arious ne,s stations also

ha&e plent$ of &ideo content online in specic languages( such asFrance)*( 'eutsche 8elle( CAA 7spaDol(

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* + Sa&e $our mone$! The bestresources are free!

,onderful and completel$ free course thatkeeps getting better is DuoLingo % ,hich @

highl$ recommend for its selection of 7uropeanlanguages currentl$ on o4er! There are pleant$ of them such as: ( let me o4er plent$ of other good2 alternati&es: The Foreign Ser&ice @nstitutes/ &aried list of

courses The -mniglot @ntro to languages ""C languages/ intro to almost *0 di4erent

languages

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E + Sk$pe toda$ for dail$ spoken practice!

So $ou/&e been listening to( ,atching( and e&enreading in $our target language6and all in the

comfort of $our o,n home! Ao, it/s time for thebig one: speaking it live with a native! "ut ,ait6,here do $ou nd a nati&e speaker if

$ou aren/t in the countr$ that speaks thatlanguage

"ut ,ait6,here do $ou nd a nati&e speaker if$ou aren/t in the countr$ that speaks thatlanguage

Speak to lbanian emigration

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G + RealiHe that adults are actuall$better language learners than kids!

 The research has confrmed that adults canbe better language learners than kids!

 This stud$ at the Ini&ersit$ of #aifa has found thatunder the right circumstances( adults sho, anintuition for une;plained grammar rules betterthan their $ounger c

lso( no stud$ has ever sho,n an$ direct

correlation bet,een reduced language ac.uisitionskill and increased age ounterparts!

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J + 7;pand $our &ocabular$ ,ith mnemonics!

Rote repetition isn/t enough! nd ,hile it/s true that repeated e;posure sometimes

burns a ,ord into $our memor$( it can be frustrating toforget a ,ord that $ou/&e alread$ heard a doHen times!

For this( @ suggest coming up ,ith mnemonics about$our target ,ord( ,hich helps glue the ,ord to $ourmemor$ ,a$ more e4ecti&el$! "asicall$( $ou tell $ourselfa funn$( sill$( or other,ise memorable stor$ to associate

,ith a particular ,ord! Bou can come up ,ith themnemonic $ourself( but a ,onderful and free2 resourcethat @ highl$ recommend is memrise!com!

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5 + 7mbrace mistakes! -&er half of the planet speaks more than one language! This means that monolingualism is a cultural( not a biological(

conse.uence! So ,hen adult fail at language learning( it/s not

because the$ don/t ha&e the right genes or other suchnonsense! @t/s because the system they have used to learnlanguages

 The di4erences bet,een $our nati&e language L12 and $ourtarget language L)2 are presented as &ocabular$ and grammarrules to memoriHe is broken

 The problem is that $ou can/t e&er trul$ Klearn a language($ou get used to it ! @t/s not a thing that $ou kno, or don/t kno,it/s a means of communication between human beings!Languages should not be ac.uired b$ rote alone6the$ need tobe used!

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N + Create SMRT goals!

nother failing of most learning approaches is a poorl$ dened end%goal! S!M!!R!T! goals on the other hand are !peci"c, #easurable, $ttainable,

elevant, and&ime'bound!

 To start de&eloping SMRT goal in a language( $ou need to becomesome,hat familiar ,ith the 7uropean Common Frame,ork  that deneslanguage le&els!

@n brief( means beginner ( " means intermediate, and Cmeans advanced( and each le&el is broken up into lower 12 and upper )2categories!These le&els are absolutel$ #easurable because oOciall$recogniHed institutions can test $ou on them and pro&ide diplom in9erman( French( Spanish(@rish( and each other oOcial 7uropean language !

8hile the same scale is not used( $ou can also get tested in a similar ,a$in Chinese and Papanese!

So ,hat do $ou aim for nd ,hat do ,ords like KQuenc$ and Kmaster$mean on a practical le&el

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10 +"ecame a pol$glot

@f $our ultimate goal is tospeak multiple languages( $ou can repeat this

process o&er multiple times( but ocus on onelanguage at a time until $ou reach at least theintermediate le&el! Take each language one b$one( until $ou reach a stage ,here $ou kno,$ou can condentl$ use it! nd then $ou ma$

 just be read$ for the ne;t ones