How to Learn Languages, Start a New language of the month and make friends

Problem
How do I find out a bit about other languages without spending hours researching?

Answer
Languages Websites
I use Duolingo and have signed up for several languages and looking at the opening page or explanations and tired the first two or three exercises.

But which language is most useful? Wherever you are going for your next holiday, or dream of going, you can start learning the language and planning a possible trip.

You can see videos on YouTube of people who have learned a dozen languages. In Singapore I often meet people who speak three or four languages. How to catch up, know at leat a little, enough to say hello or goodbye.

It would be good to even recognize which languages people are speaking. I often sit in a train, or in the sauna in a gym, and hear a foreign language.

I can recognise the Japanese. They end their sentences with deska which is a question word, equivalent to isn't it, or is that so?

Knowing a little of another language gives you the curiosity and the courage to open a conversation. Even if you know only a few words, that's enough to establish rapport.

If you want encouragement, Wikitravel has a language of the month.

Tips
duo lingo.com

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to useful and entertaining posts.