A Guide to Learning,
Speaking and Enjoying Languages
        
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Vol 1 - LALF Newsletter - 18 November 2006This one is short but sweet, as I devote most of my time to finding more resources to add to the site. We hope you will find this a helpful resource in your journey to learn a new language, or to improve the skills you have already acquired. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIP OF THE MONTH This one is probably the most important thing you need to know when learning a language :- Do something each and every day! Even a few minutes reviewing what you did the previous day will make a difference. I try to spend at least 30 minutes every day on my current Japanese studies, and find that it DOES make a difference. Make up some tapes or a CD to listen to in the car, whether it has songs in your chosen language, or check out a web site that you found on LALF. If you know somewone who speaks the same language, have a chat with them, even if it is just to practise a greeting and ask how they are - whatever it is, like Nike ad says, "Just do it". See if you can find any newspapers or magazines in the language you are learning. Even one newspaper, put away for a few weeks, then bring it out after you have completed several lessons, and see if you understand more than you did previously. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HAVE SOME FUN Learning a language should be a fun and rewarding experience, and sometimes people take the whole thing too seriously. For this reason, the languages available on learn-a-language-free.com include Klingon and Australian. Check out these pages to see that learning languages does not have to be a serious thing. Klingon is of course the language developed for the Star Trek television series, and the movies that followed. It has a fully developed structure, and a very unique sound. You can apparently study Klingon at University. I have worked with people that speak Klingon, so know that it REALLY is used. When I call Australian a language, I am referring to what some of us older Aussies call "strine" - if you try to say "Australian" with an Australian accent, and drop the 1st syllable, you get a word that sounds something like "strine". Many strine words are what we call rhyming slang, - for example we call a friend a "mate". This rhymes with "China plate" - so we could call friend a China plate, but instead we just call him "China" - we Aussies are, after all, a lazy bunch, shortening everything we can. Whilst on things Australian, you might also like to check out www.bestaussiebeaches.com to learn about some of the magnificent beaches we have Down Under ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I welcome recomendations for new languages to be added to this site - send an email to suggestions@learn-a-language-free.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This newsletter will be published monthly, on or about the 15th of the month To subscribe, send a blank email to subsccribe@learn-a-language-free.com To unsubsccribe, send a blank email to unsubsccribe@learn-a-language-free.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2006 http://www.learn-a-language-free.com |
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