How I learn languages

Sometimes people ask me how exactly I learn languages, and this explains my current method. It involves 6 weeks, memorization, and listening.

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[brendax27]

hey, i was just wondering, which language was the hardest [so far] that you've tried learning?

[BMtodaP]

Well actually every language has easy parts and hard parts. For example, Chinese has a very easy syntax and grammar but it has a very complicated writing system. But I guess it's not fair to say that one language is easier than another one. To an english speaker, english is easy and japanese is hard. To a japanese speaker, japanese is easy and english is hard. So it's all relative. If you love it enough then they're all just easy. So that's a hard question to answer haha.

[BMtodaP]

haha I was wrong about it 'not changing very much'. I have already changed it so that instead of listening to something on the respective topic for those two weeks, I just replace all listening with talking to natives. I think that helps a lot more. And also instead of making a new list for each of the three topics and memorizing it, I will only be memorizing the first list for all 6 weeks.

[Fasulye2009]

Thanks for explaining your methods. Everything seems well structured to me. If you aim to learn a very high number of languages in your lifetime you have to work like this. I am less ambitious, knowing 10 languages in my whole lifetime will be enough for me. I focus mainly on one study language (now Turkish) and keep my other languages active by using them in different ways such as correspondence, reading, audio-taining and thinking (!) in them. Fasulye

[BMtodaP]

Your welcome :) It seems every polyglot has their own way of learning. Sometimes it's hard for them not to be too critical about each other haha. Turkce cok guzel bir dil :)

[BMtodaP]

That's true, listening is important! Haha Peut-etre que je vais venir a ta ville internationale. Maintenant pour moi il y a ceux qui parlent l'espagnole, le portuguais, les etudiants d'echange, et enfin Skype

[loki2504]

So you never use the language in real situation? You never find native speakers? I always do that lol.

I never study vocab lists, I just learn it through texts

[BrodyHProductions]

Where do you get the words from that you study? Any how do you know how to pronounce them?

[litmibimi]

all of these.. SELF STUDY??!? =O

[micheljr17]

i too love to listen to other languages on Youtube,

i recomend watching the Disney Movies in other langauges

Disney translates it's movies into so many langauges and some have two versions like, Castilian and  Latin Spanish, French Canadian and French, BT Portuguese and PT Portuguese,

[loki2504]

Listening is so important !!! I always listen over and over. Vivre aux Etats-Unis et aimer apprendre les langues c'est pas pratique parce que vous avez pas beaucoup de gens d'origine étrangère (sauf ceux qui parlent l'espagnol et le portuguais), ici à l'université je pourrais pratiquer: le vietnamien, le cantonais, le shangaien, l'arabe classique, le darija (arabe marocain), le russe, le kazak, le tagalog etc parce que ma ville est internationale ! c'est vraiment un avantage ! lol