Book of the day: "How to stop to learn a foreign language and begin to live it" - for those who are tired of cramming rules
Books / / December 19, 2019
In late April, Moscow hosted a presentation of the book by Anastasia Ivanova, teacher with eleven years of experience. The author shared his observations and concepts of learning a foreign language. The book debunks popular myths and unfounded as to why is not possible to learn a language, and provides an answer to the main question - why is it necessary.
Creator of the popular blog Use your English! and host of online courses Anastasia Ivanova is closely related to the English language for 25 years. Faced with him for the first time in kindergarten, she made his teaching as a profession. Anastasia herself to develop programs to study, to use only the ones that work, and not follow standard procedures, which are often not only are good, but also discourage any desire to study.
The main idea of the book is that it is impossible to learn a foreign language once and for all and to "preserve" in this state.
Any language - is a living organism. It is constantly changing, but that does not mean you have to say goodbye with hopes to conquer it. It is an opportunity to approach its study from a new angle.
The first section lists the common errors, and refute them. The author explains why necessarily learn foreign words since childhood and there is no concept of "language skills". About the many years of experience are broken down misconceptions about the high cost and infinite duration of training. The second part of the book tells you how to enjoy the process, how the environment affects us, why can not blame yourself and where to take the time.
The third section - practical. The reader is encouraged to make it their personal life plan in English. Template methods are used, for example, in schools, may not be suitable for everyone, because everyone is different. The book will teach to determine the acceptable level of load, there is a modern learning tools language, crush big scary task into several small and achievable, as well as to adequately assess their results.
The author tells how the brain works and memory of why it is important to keep a diary of results and emotions, and learn to relate to learning in a pleasant endless process.
Examples of plans that leads Anastasia Ivanova, feasible and realistic: to choose read the book, Download the dictionary to your phone to read a certain number of pages per week. The uniqueness of the method is that the student himself defines comfortable for themselves the level of congestion, depending on your own schedule. There are no exercises or regulations. For those who want to find them, there are plenty of other resources. But there is a road map on which are easy to follow and from which can and must be rejected, to find their own way. author recommendations will help to develop the habit of studying language through taking pleasure in the process.
The book will serve as a salvation for those who for many years It is struggling with a foreign language and can not win this battle. it is also for those who are just about to start an exciting new way to learn. And those who can not understand, why do we need a foreign language, will find a lot of pluses, because the language - is the door to a whole new and wonderful world, and it is important to know how to open it correctly.
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