Over the past week I've written and noted almost 10,000 words, researched hundreds of websites, and studyed many ways to learn a new language. With all this work, I've only given you scarce information about what has worked and what hasn't. From this point forward I will describe what I have tried, what didn't work for me, and what might work for you. I am no expert, so I won't act like one.
In this way, you will have the benefits of all my work in studying the language and learning patterns without the need of intensive researching.
Lets travel back in time to where this all began.
September 8th:
My journey started when I asked Google a question, "How do I learn a language quickly?".
Google answered with a blog post by Tim Ferris, How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Lanuage in 1 Hour
Here I learned how to take several sentences in my native language and the same sentences in another language, deconstruct them and compare the two. In this way I could find many important sentence and word structure patterns. For example, I deconstructed 12 sentences from Italian [thanks Anna for the translations and corrections!] and found many important rules (heres the document and rules, read Day 2 for more info)
I was extremely interested in Tim's method of learning, so I searched his blog for "how to learn a language". The top result was "How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months".
This got me excited, I could hardly read fast enough to feed my hunger for learning.
Tim included lots of information in that article, but what was most helpful was his 3 steps of progress. If your going to learn a language, progress is what gets you there. So what is progress? Progress is:
1. Effectiveness (Priority)
2. Adherence (Interest)
3. Efficiency (Process)
At first these 3 definitions didn't make sense to me, but after reading the article I understood their meaning and created my own requirements to achieve progress with learning a language:
1. Passion
2. Imersion
3. Dedication
If we are truly Passionate about a language, learning will be fun, we will never give up, and we will always strive to do our best. This is how we keep Adherence when learning.
When we are truely Imersed in the language through music, radio, television, communication, and reading we will learn a great amount easily in little time. This is an Effective way to learn.
When we Dedicate each and every moment of everyday, we will learn extremely fast. This is an Efficient way to learn.
If I follow these three rules, I know I won't fail.
Now that I found a timeline (3 months), I asked Google my second question, "How do I learn a language in 3 months?"
Google answered, "You learn by reading Benny's blog"… well, not quite. But Google did give me helpful results, "How to become fluent in a language in 3 months"
Here I went on to read many articles of people learning languages quickly. I read comments, quotes, and every piece of information I could find.
This was just the beginning of my research. Over the next several days I do learn much more...
Do you like this approach better? Please comment, I enjoy reading your feedback!
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