Learning a Foreign Language Reviews

Learning a foreign language can be a very long haul. If you are young or have plenty time, it's not so bad but for all hopeful language learners, it's well worth finding some shortcuts and an accelerated learning approach can provide the answer. There are a range of books on accelerated learning and I've used some of these techniques combined with ...  Read the complete review

If you are reading this, chances are you have already learned one of the most complex languages there is; English. As native speakers we often don't realise quite how challenging English is. If you don't believe me ask anyone who speaks English as a second language how hard it was to understand the difference between "I live, I am living, I ...  Read the complete review

When I was about 7 years old I didn't know back then how learning new languages will become important in my life, but my dad though it would be great idea to learn German so he sign me up for to a private tutor. I didn't really care much about it and 3 years later when we had to choose one foreign language at school , I though I would try English. ...  Read the complete review

It is one of the most commonly made misconceptions that everyone in the world speaks english. Admittedly in business it is a very useful language, and many other countries learn it, but there is no reason why we should rely on others to communicate with us in our language, when we could just as easily make the effort to learn theirs. I ...  Read the complete review

Speaking as a French tutor, I think more people should learn another language. Specifically, I think they should learn French. From me. I have to make a living somehow. In the unlikely event that that hasn't persuaded everybody, I do have some genuine reasons for saying that more people should learn a foreign language. I will now ...  Read the complete review

I speak few foreign languages to a different degree of fluency. My mother tongue is Romanian, I was born there. I learnt Russian at school since at that time we were part of the Eastern Block. Many of my school mates did not like Russian since it is a Slavic language and we have a Latin language, but I was different and always thought ...  Read the complete review

English may be considered as the international language, but we travel abroad so frequently and so many Brits are moving to sunnier parts of Europe that language learning would seem to be increasingly important. It doesn't help that it is no longer compulsory for secondary school pupils to study a foreign language for GCSE; many of them ...  Read the complete review

Learning a foreign language At school I studied French and German, neither of them being my best subjects and I certainly wasn’t the best student. I found the formal and rigid teaching methods of my teachers didn’t work for me. Since leaving school and entering the big wide world I’ve learnt Spanish and Thai as well as picking up bits ...  Read the complete review

To learn another language, a second tongue, is a goal of many people however once you begin you start to realise just how complex this is. The study of German is a much simpler affair for English people than an unrelated language such as Japanese or American - ha ha, little joke there, I don't know what I mean - ...  Read the complete review

Do you remember languages at school? When you missed one accent or word, or pronounced something incorrectly you were wrong. WRONG, no arguments, end of story and no marks for that answer. I did GCSE French and German and though I was quite good, I hated them and that was mainly because of us having no error margin. So, what could ...  Read the complete review

I have been learning French for just about nine years (wow, is it really that long??!!, makes me sound so old!). When I first started it seemed like the most exciting thing I had learnt - I always went around at the age of seven saying that I wanted to learn French (I was imitating my mum!) and now at the age of nine, I finally had my chance! I ...  Read the complete review

(Note: the June 22 update is merely for a couple of typos - there's no substatial new material here.) My family is what you might call a multilingual one. My dad is a French teacher who also speaks a good deal of Spanish, GCSE-level German and a smattering of Italian, and from time to time tries his hand at Sanskrit (which is a handy ...  Read the complete review

There is only one way to learn a foreign language if you are not able to move to that country. Watch as much television in the language as possible! You DO need the essential grammar and basic vocab lessons, but the best and most fun way to progress from boring grammar exercises to anything nearing fluency is to immerse yourself in the ...  Read the complete review

Why is it we English have a very cavalier attitude to language’s. By this I mean why do we assume that where ever we go in the world somebody will speak English? On my many holidays to Spain I have had to listen to my fellow country men and women embarrass themselves or abuse the natives of the country they are visiting ...  Read the complete review

I will probably bore you all to death about this subject, but it is one that has been part of my life for the last 9 years. When I went to high school in 1992 we had to learn a foreign language. I wanted to do French, but guess what? I got stuck with German. I didn't like this idea and decided as soon as I could change my language I ...  Read the complete review

Sorry folks but I’m going to do my standard ‘language teacher op’ thing here within this article (as per!) and try to implicitly convince you/encourage you to learn a language! You have been warned (ok?) but it’s a tough job and somebody’s gotta do it and I suppose I’ll do! My mental framework for ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger, and somewhat less sophisticated in my appreciation of the world beyond my native shores, I viewed learning foreign languages as something only those people who weren't lucky enough to grow up speaking English had to endure. As Britain currently lags far behind other European nations in terms of language learning, I suppose ...  Read the complete review

At last I have found a category about which I can offer a lot of insight. You see, languages have been on my blood since the dim and distant days of 1979, when I got my first ever taste of learning a foreign language. In the intervening 22 years (oh my God, that's the first time ever I've said I've been doing something for over 20 ...  Read the complete review

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If you are like me and, well, never shut up, learning a foreign language (or 2 or 3) is the best thing you can do. Just think of all the new people in the world you'll be able to bore (sorry 'entertain') with your opinions! My first encounter with foreign languages was early on. My mother was a lecturer at the local university ...  Read the complete review