Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Enunciating Language

My old Latin teacher always said that the best way to learn a language is to use it. Enunciate.

Communicating in it with others is the best, but if, say, you don't know anyone to call in Nancy, the next best is to simply take a piece of French text and read it aloud to yourself.

Famed explorer Richard Burton advocated a really developed version of this idea. Take a text, outline vital words and phrases, repeat them continuously. Don't do this more than fifteen minutes a day, so that the mind could retain its "freshness". He learned whole languages with this method.

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