Tips seasoned lingvohakera how to learn a foreign language

Ekaterina Matveeva - a polyglot who knows seven languages, athlete from memory, the founder and teacher of school Europeonline. Today she shares with readers Layfhakera practical advice that will help you learn any foreign language.

Summary of Catherine

• He speaks English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, French, Russian.
• Develops the basic knowledge of German, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Hindi and Tamil.
• He understands the language related groups: Slavic, Roman and German.
• I studied and lived in six countries (the language of the country of residence, she taught in advance).
• He writes poetry in four languages ​​and is published on four continents.
• EC on the activities it has converted five foreign languages ​​from one to another without using the native language.
• He became the first athlete of the memory of the Russian Federation in international championships from memory.
• He has developed his own method of teaching languages ​​and cultures with the spoken result in three months at a measured pace of study and through one month under intense.
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• Beginning closely to learn languages ​​in 16 years, reducing the period of mastering the language and culture of a detailed immersion in up to 6-8 months to his 23 years.

Tips lingvohakera

Find your passion or hobby, which you are ready to talk for hours

Read, listen or watch materials on this subject in a foreign language, then learning will be fun!

Find a person in love with a foreign language

Speak, speak with the first sentence! And you do not need a carrier, the carrier is often quite cold and indifferent towards their language. Find like-minded. How? Just! Skype, Facebook, «VKontakte», forums! Find and communicate.

Be creative

Play with the words in his mind, try to translate everything that is around you. You might wonder what is hiding behind the names of companies, products and advertising slogans.

use your imagination

That imagination will help you to consolidate your vocabulary. The brighter your emotions in relation to the words and expressions, the better they have secured. Compose bright (bloody) history with new expressions.

write

From the writings of bloody stories to your own routine affairs. Keep a journal and write to all in a foreign language. You have activated a visual and emotional memory.

Try to write poetry

Look for rhyme! So you fill up your vocabulary and better remember the same irregular verbs in English.

Work with phrases in context

Whether it's family theme or work, shopping or tourism - you will be easier to connect them together. Especially pay attention to the idioms and phrases appear only in that language.

Tune psychologically to embrace the immense

Tune out to discover a new planet to explore the universe anew, from a different perspective, and do not resist it.

Carried away with something related to the culture of the country whose language you are learning

Whether it is capoeira, flamenco, tango, cooking, history, aikido, tea ceremony... In contact with this activities you will experience new aspects of culture, which means you will be more comfortable to engage language.

Watch carriers

Watch for their manner of speaking, their gestures, gait, eyes, reaction in different situations... and copy! Imagine that you are an actor in the theater and in a foreign language communication - this is your scene. Play until the new habit will not be for you as natural as a native! Do not worry, you do not lose yourself, on the contrary, the study of foreign customs you a deeper understanding of their own.

And finally: better to fall in loveIt can replace all of the above tips. And believe in yourself, because our brain possibilities are endless! :)