Benny Lewis: Language hacking guide

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rigth mentality about leanring project is a must

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Motivation

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Change the “want to learn” to “need to learn”

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Keep preactical short-term aims that hel you feel the progress

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Focus on the positive aspects of learning a language and not “how hard it is”

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Mistakes are fully natural part of learning, you will make them

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Complaining about problems won’t solve them, make mistakes and learn the thing

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Lack of good genes is not a valid excuse to not learn a language

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Make a plan and missins on how to learn a language in 3 months, don’t rely on vague “Fuluncey in X months”

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Plan form End-Goal going backwards

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Practice every day

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Set mini-goals to achieve in one siting. E.g. learn body parts

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Set your goal as precisely as you can. Why are you learning this?

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Keep a languge log of what you have learned

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Speak form day 1

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non-verbal comunication is great heleper

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You do not need to be in country to get immersed. You can force tourself to be surrounded by your target language

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Speak as much as you can. Even if you know very little. Don’t say “thanks” say “Gracias”

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Ease yourself into speking the language by using simple phrases at the beginning

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You will be frustated if you get stuck and that is OK

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Big struggle is unfamiliarity with tring to communicate with language that is not yours. Try to learn very easy languge first and then proceed with your target language as a second one (english, esperanto)

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If you make no mistakes you are not making progress

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Skip through any grammar and vocabulary that is not essential at the beginning of the proccess

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Revise your approach and try to improve it when you stop making progress

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To convince someone to speak their language with you, just ask

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conersational connectors can fill in empty spaces whn you think (to tell you the truth, you know etc..)

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Learn one language at a time

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Image assosiation will boost word memory

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Use music to remember phrases

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Use short breaks in your day to make time for study. Waiting for the elevator, shitting, wiating for red ligth etc

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To get natives: you can host couch-surfers, check out free advertismet sites, meetup.com (search of other language exchange sites)

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Use google image search rather than dictionary - it will give you a true mening and not official meaning

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Lang 8 - a resurce to submit a short text and get it corrected by a local

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Forvo - hearing words spoken by natives

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Transalte using Wikipedia

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Change interaface of your devices to target language

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endings of the words often indicate gender of the word

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Instant Vocabulary is connected with technology, brands

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Once you can speak - fix your accent