• ephemeral1@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The best methods are:

    1. Go to a country which speaks the language you want to learn
    2. Don’t hang out with people who speak your native language
    3. Live with a family (often called a host family) and spend time with them
    4. Study a lot
    5. Stop watching movies in your native language and instead only watch in the language you want to learn. Once your vocabulary is built a little only use that language’s subtitles and stop using English
    6. Get a girlfriend or boyfriend who speaks the language you want to learn
    7. Google for language schools in the country you’d like to go to (South American and Central American schools for Spanish can be really affordable)
    8. Use Duolingo to build vocabulary (you won’t become fluent from Duolingo, you need to use it as a supplement to the other methods)
    9. Fall in love with some bands that sing in the language you want to learn and listen to them regularly (YouTube is a great way to learn of those bands)
    10. Once you get a base start trying to read and translate children’s books and progressively up the reading level as you get better
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      9 months ago

      Most of these " tips " kinda sound sociapathic sure if you only have one life goal and it us to learn a language but still some of these are kinda disturbing . Like get a girlfriend or boyfrien just for language learning do connections or humans mean nothing what are you gonna do after you learn the lunguage just dump them ? And also would you just leave your family and friends and only talk to people who know that language what will you do before you learn the language talk to no one ? But yeah these maybe effective but i wouldn’t say worth the cost .