Hi everyone!
It's Manav here with another conversation
at Glossika and today I'm with Claire
who is a polyglot.
All right Claire,
What are the five best ways to learn
a new language?
Five ways, alright.
Well, first of all, if you can,
just go to a country
where they speak your language and just immerse yourself.
Like make sure you hear it every single day,
you know from every side like to the point
that you start thinking in the language
So, travel for sure
number two, if you can't travel just make sure
you immerse yourself in the language in any other way
So, I would suggest just watching lots of TV.
Turn on Netflix or you know movies, anything you like
just try to listen to it as much as possible.
So, it's you know just pick up a silly TV show
and just get obsessed with it,
Entertainment's key
Yeah
Day in day night, so, that you really just get it
in your brain like you listen it all the time and you
just at some point, you just start thinking
in the language.
Alright, yeah and your third would be?
Music.
Music, okay.
That's another way to just listen to it
because you know if you like a song,
it's gonna stuck in your head and you just like
you just start singing it all the time right?
and
and then the best thing is
to look up the lyrics
and try to sing along
and then you know, you look up the meaning and then
and then you
So, you will remember the meaning,
but, then the lyrics
are gonna get stuck in your head.
So, you're never going to
forget it and you're going to learn
a lot and you're also matching the pronounciation
with the written form,
So, it's really teaching you
on multiple levels.
Yeah
and number four?
Number four?
Read
Yeah so, if you are lucky enough
to be present in a country where they speak
the language, just read everything like you walk down
the street and it could be reading everything because
you know you have it in context,
you're like "Oh, super mercado"
like oh, I guess, it's a supermarket right?
When you go to shops and you
buy something, so, let's say
you know, I have a bottle of milkshake here and
just like oh like what's this
like
you know like "leche" is milk
okay
like what else is in there right?
and you're just trying to guess and you're just like
you can imagine what's inside a milkshake right?
So, he's like okay I guess "leche" would be milk
and then "platano" would be probably banana.
Since it's a banana milkshake
and then obviously if you can't, you know
do that, just pick up a book and
try to read it right and I think this is a
big one because at the beginning, you will
like you're not understanding anything and you will
want to reach for your dictionary and look up every
word you don't know, but, just don't do that
don't do that because
you're going to see that you're going to get the meaning
even if you don't understand like half of the words,
you're still going tot get the meaning and if you can make it
through towards the end of the book, you're just going
to be like oh my God, I understand.
Yeah, there's a sense of accomplishment too
you're like, I don't know how because I've never
looked up these words,
but, all of a sudden,
I'm reading and I know what I'm reading
Like I don't even know how my brain just learned it
without me putting any effort in learning it
it's really amazing,
So, we have travel, entertainment,
music, reading and lastly,
I would just say have fun
have fun, yeah, stop be easy in yourself and
don't be strict in yourself,
just be willing to you know
make a fool out of yourself.
Just show up on camera and
you know, don't even
don't even worry
about your grammar or like
I think we stop ourselves a lot when
speaking a new language,
so, just don't hesitate so much
Absolutely
it's going to be a little
embarrassing, push through
it's fine, you know, just imagine you go to
the supermarket and you want to buy a
chicken sandwich and you have it in
the tip of your tounge but you just forgot the word
for chicken, what do you do?
Exactly, right?
Like
Egg?
You know?
They're just gonna be any way possible
that's it, that's what I mean
and you're never gonna
We'll get the message accross
you are never going to
forget the word for chicken,
that's actually right, yeah.
So just, you know, make a fool out of yourself
Thank you Claire the polygot
Thank you
Beautiful
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