Language Learning: Moving From Knowing to Using the Language in Everyday Life

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When you get to fluency in a language that just use it in a class or at home, your books and audio files is not enough. You need to integrate your language learning in your daily routine. How to do that? Here are some tips to start with the language is learned in daily life.

… As a beginner

Most language courses so that you first learn the basics for everyday interactions structured required. If you are in Singapore and learn Chinese, English or Malay, you will have ample opportunity to put your newly learned vocabulary used.

Thus, at week 2 of your series of learning and prepare you for a drink in the new language. You know, these conversations always play like that. For example:

* “A coffee please.”
* “Sugar and milk?”
* “Yes, please”
* “Ok, the S $ 3.00″

Prepare in advance by the idea of how the conversation goes, and then just run here the question! There is always support you can rely, such as:

* Menu
* If you can not hear the price: only with a note, which is certainly large enough to look at the number at the register, or ask the waiter to pay the bill.
* Listen carefully to how people around you order and to imitate

If you can manage this simple conversation and structured, with no in other languages, it will give a major boost for your confidence! Later you can relax in increasingly difficult situations that put relatively predictable. You are the customer! So do not worry about slow or inaccurate.

… At an intermediate level

As a beginner, you can too slow to interact with people in a rather informal, but once you get the basics, it is really important to make friends, to speak in language you. Ideally, new friends, which no other language in common.

This often goes wrong in immersion programs: If you travel to Spain to learn Spanish, Spanish classes visit in the morning, but spend the afternoon with people of their own country to interact, you miss the most valuable part of the immersive experience.

If other speakers of the language you do not learn readily available, you can try to keep in touch with people getting practically a blog, via Twitter or language learning communities such as Livemocha.

You can also try to get magazines and newspapers and television, especially if you’re a little further away in the intermediate phase. Try and see how much you know already. If you have a language with a different font, like to learn Japanese or Chinese, may have to wait to read until you are at an advanced stage.

… As a speaker tip

They have learned the language at almost native control. Congratulations. But you have to maintain it. Try to write the language, to watch the news and in touch with your friends, you can hold to speak the language! If you do not use it, your ability to die. And what is the point to learn the language first if you do not use it?

A Dutchman currently living in Singapore, Guus has studied up to 7 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Greek, Latin and Mandarin). He is passionate about travel, culture, language and learning.

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