How to Learn a Language With the Internet
Pick a language., Use Google., Reading/Writing., Pronunciation is key., Improve your Vocab., Learn Word structure., Learn by sentence, not by word.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Pick a language.
It's best to pick a language that you're going to be using. i.e.
Don't learn Korean, just because.
Don't learn French, just so you can say a few things to your girlfriend, and have her think you're a romantic.
Learn a language that's going to be useful to you.
You want to pick one that's going to be helpful to you, even if you simply like to listen to music in that language, and you want to know what they're saying without subtitles. -
Step 2: Use Google.
Just search on Google, "How to speak ****" or something similar.
Google can lead you to a lot of good websites to help you learn languages. , Reading and writing is fundamental.
If you can read in a language, then you can learn to speak it ten times faster.
Most languages have syllabaries, meaning that each character is phonetic.
Learning those symbols will make it much easier to learn a language, as you'll be able to read and write in the language, and communicate with others, even when there is no one near you that speaks that language.
Some languages have a hybrid writing system.
Japanese is one example.
In Japanese, there are two syllabaries (Katakana, and Hiragana), and ideographs (Kanji).
The Kanji have multiple readings, therefore it would be smart to learn them later.
This is an example to show you that you have to do research on the writing before you learn it. , If you can't properly pronounce words, then no one will be able to understand you, and you might not understand others, as you will think things are pronounced differently than they actually are, and get confused. , Vocab is important.
Learn lots of grammar. , Word structure is very important.
You should know how to make your own sentences, how to conjugate verbs, and how to express your own ideas, in your own words.
Don't simply look up how to say a sentence.
Look up all the different ways to say all other different words in the sentence, then create the sentence yourself. , This is a method of learning.
You learn a sentence, like "I am happy today".
Then you learn different words that you can change to change the meaning.
Instead of learning a lot of similar sentences(i.e. "I'm happy" "I'm sad" "You're happy" "You're angry" etc.), you learn one sentence, and then the separate words, that way you can change up the sentence yourself and make all of those sentences, and more.
You can learn, "I'm happy"
then learn the words for Angry, sad, you, and not, then you can make a ton of different sentences.
This method is much simpler, and much faster than learning separate sentences. -
Step 3: Reading/Writing.
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Step 4: Pronunciation is key.
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Step 5: Improve your Vocab.
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Step 6: Learn Word structure.
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Step 7: Learn by sentence
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Step 8: not by word.
Detailed Guide
It's best to pick a language that you're going to be using. i.e.
Don't learn Korean, just because.
Don't learn French, just so you can say a few things to your girlfriend, and have her think you're a romantic.
Learn a language that's going to be useful to you.
You want to pick one that's going to be helpful to you, even if you simply like to listen to music in that language, and you want to know what they're saying without subtitles.
Just search on Google, "How to speak ****" or something similar.
Google can lead you to a lot of good websites to help you learn languages. , Reading and writing is fundamental.
If you can read in a language, then you can learn to speak it ten times faster.
Most languages have syllabaries, meaning that each character is phonetic.
Learning those symbols will make it much easier to learn a language, as you'll be able to read and write in the language, and communicate with others, even when there is no one near you that speaks that language.
Some languages have a hybrid writing system.
Japanese is one example.
In Japanese, there are two syllabaries (Katakana, and Hiragana), and ideographs (Kanji).
The Kanji have multiple readings, therefore it would be smart to learn them later.
This is an example to show you that you have to do research on the writing before you learn it. , If you can't properly pronounce words, then no one will be able to understand you, and you might not understand others, as you will think things are pronounced differently than they actually are, and get confused. , Vocab is important.
Learn lots of grammar. , Word structure is very important.
You should know how to make your own sentences, how to conjugate verbs, and how to express your own ideas, in your own words.
Don't simply look up how to say a sentence.
Look up all the different ways to say all other different words in the sentence, then create the sentence yourself. , This is a method of learning.
You learn a sentence, like "I am happy today".
Then you learn different words that you can change to change the meaning.
Instead of learning a lot of similar sentences(i.e. "I'm happy" "I'm sad" "You're happy" "You're angry" etc.), you learn one sentence, and then the separate words, that way you can change up the sentence yourself and make all of those sentences, and more.
You can learn, "I'm happy"
then learn the words for Angry, sad, you, and not, then you can make a ton of different sentences.
This method is much simpler, and much faster than learning separate sentences.
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