There are four ways we learn languages.
Hearing Wrods, Rhymes & Songs
We hear them and recognize sounds and groups with order (grammar). Children hear nursery rhymes and speech. Adults hear songs and films and conversation.
Motivation
The motivation could be to speak a language on holiday, to impress people socially, communicate with or understand your family, your boss, your customer.
Multi-lingual learners of languages are motivated. They go to live in a country and listen to the radio, read newspapers to practise, engage in conversation. They devote a certain number of hours each day.
Chinese Speech Contest Winners Secrets\
The Chinese winner of the International Speech Contest had been detemined to win. The contest was held in English. She spoke Chinese. She first had to learn English.
What was her secret? She told us at a club meeting.
TV Programmes Help
She learned English by watching the Americn TV series, Friends for three hous every morning. It took her two years.
Toastmasters International Clubs Help
In addition, she went to English speaking clubs. She went to Toastmasters International speakers' club meetings to listen to English and practise speaking. Toastmasters International meetings have a language evaluator who teaches the word of the day and gives a report on the good usese of language and suggests improvements.
The groups welcome guests. Many meetings are online. New clubs are keen to have listeners and potential members. Some people join for networking, so the more the merrier.
Toastmasters has clubs which speak Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish, French and other languages and has manuals in several languages.
Searching For Patterns
Your brain recognizes patterns. If you hear something twice, that could be coincidence. Hear someting three times and the brain starts to record a pattern.
Learning Names By Repeating
Americans learn names by asking your name and repeating it three times. So when I meet an American who knows this system the conversation could go like this.
His, my name is Kaylie. What is your name? Angela Lansbury - like the actress Angela Lansbury in Murder she wrote. Are you related to the other Angela Lansbury? Do other people ask you if you are related to the actress Angela Lansbury? Are their other people called Angela Lansbury on LinkedIn and Facebook? Will I find you on social media under the name Angela Lansbury?
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