Tips and Techniques

- you abandon your first language

- writing mini-speeches and rehearsing them over and over
- nothing in language should be learned out of context
- Spaced Repetition System
- you have to listen to lessons that are just a little bit above your level
- It’s okay to make mistakes. Go out and make them! As many and as fast as
possible
- demolishing all the mental blocks and psychological limitations that scare
people away from fluency
- However, instead of individual words, we copied them in “prefabricated
chunks”—or, we copied their phrases
- Phrasebooks
- It was about aligning all his routine and daily activities into learning the target
language
- Identify patterns in the language
- he encourages his students to work on learning the language every day—from
a measly 15 minutes to an hour, tops
- The faster one learns a language, the faster one forgets. So don’t learn in haste

- particular sequence:

1) Listen to the audio material.

2) Practice pronouncing the words and speaking the dialogue.

3) Read the materials with audio, and then without audio

4) Repeat numbers 1-3 several times over several days.

5) Translate the dialogues into English (or your first language).

6) Translate your English translations back to the original target language

- His answer was “consistency”

- one of the few polyglots who gives the written word as much importance as the
spoken word

- “written material can be read repeatedly and closely analysed, and notes can
be made on the writing surface”
- learners only really learn when they are given material that they can actually
understand (or, comprehend)

- For him, one can never really master a language—for how can one master
something that’s so expansive, dynamic and fluid

- Hearing the sounds, utterances, rhythms and tones is the engine of language
acquisition

- Learn how to use 1 or 2 books for a relatively short period of time, then put
them aside and embrace a certain lifestyle

- Consistency is the key to everything

- It’s your simple, daily language learning routine that will bring you the big
results over time

-Using a language is a behaviour… It’s constantly “failing forward”

- Everything we say in our first language is unoriginal – we piece together words,

collocations, phrases and so on like linguistic lego blocks