Frequency and consistency of effort
are more important than throwing hours at learning your language. Are you doing
it often enough?
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Play
games to get fluent.
Playing games to improve your
language skills is both fun and effective. There are superb online games around,
for example try www.languagegames.org. “Play” embeds our learning as well
as making it more interesting. Becoming fluent has never been so much fun!
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“Puzzling”
translation.
Take an interesting dialogue with
juicy vocabulary. Translate it without a dictionary, simply by puzzling it out
(you need to be at least intermediate). Review it looking up words you didn’t
get. This gets you under the skin of a language.
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Seasonal surge.
Aim to learn vocabulary
related to the season. For example in summer you might explore themes like hot
weather, ways to stay cool, summer foods, summer destinations in the country etc. It’s
a logical way to learn stuff you can use right now.
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Specific
incentives.
Give yourself concrete and substantial
rewards for achieving your goals. For example: a holiday, a gadget, new clothes
or whatever motivates you most. Just link it to your language learning.
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Put it all on display.
When you visit the country, aim
to use the full range of expressions you know. Even if it’s not entirely
right, the only way to learn fast is to express yourself! Be a show-off and you’ll
definitely reap benefits.
