8. Record Yourself
Record yourself speaking in the target language and listen to the recordings. This way, you can identify areas for improvement, such as pronunciation or grammar mistakes.
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Learning a new language can be an exciting and rewarding experience. It opens up new opportunities for communication, travel, and understanding different cultures. The process of learning a new language involves dedication, practice, and patience.
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Find ways to embed the language into your life
- Talk to yourself in the new language. Talk yourself through whatever you're doing.
- Keep a diary or notebook in your new language of events of the day.
- You can also record videos of yourself speaking the target language.
Speaking the Language
This strategy of learning a new language only works if you speak in the language. If you are only able to spend 50% of your learning time in conversations, invest your time on the important aspects of the language that you can't focus on enough. It will be different for each language.
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Where to put your focus
Speaking a language is not like those exams that many of us had to take in grade school, where a tiny grammar mistake would lose you marks.
In the real world, small errors don't matter. What matters is to make yourself understood.
Don't focus on yourself or on your...
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