Lifehacker reader Gabriel Wyner was tasked with learning four languages in the past few years for his career as an opera singer, and in the process landed on “a pretty damn good method for language learning that you can do in limited amounts of spare time.” Here’s the four-step method that you can use, too (and you don’t have to invest hundreds in a language course like Rosetta Stone).
Having an accent when you speak a foreign language is not a bad thing. Accents create diversity, and they should be carried with pride, for they mean the language you’re speaking was acquired with effort. Now, a study shows that people that don’t fret over mimicking the native accent learn faster than those who always want (and often fail) to speak a foreign language without a trace of their mother tongue.
Learn Spanish while translating the Web. An interesting and useful concept.
This was a suggestion from one of my students. I checked it out and it looks pretty cool. You create an account, sign up, and have instant access to several exercises to drill your Spanish verb conjugations. As I often tell my students, you own the verbs, you own the language.
I recently came across this nice website. It seems fun and useful. Enjoy.
Good language students understand this: the best/only way to learn is to practice, and then practice some more. Teachers, books, games, fancy software, foreign pen pals: they’re all resources that can help. Here, for those geeky students such as myself, is a list of apps I found to help you learn.
