How to Learn a Foreign LanguagePaul Pimsleur
How to Learn a Foreign Language
by Paul Pimsleur · first published 1980
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How to Learn a Foreign Language by Paul Pimsleur is a short book that has a lot of gems about language learning. My tips as someone who has learnt a foreign language to fluency after becoming an adult: Focus on sounds before the written…
on “Ask HN: How to learn Spanish quickly and effectively?” ↗…for four years straight. Not conclusive by any means, but suggestive.) By eliminating the complicated grammatical idiosyncrasies of natural languages, someone learning Esperanto can focus on learning how to learn a foreign language. If you've never learned a second language before, it's easy to memorize vocabulary and obscure grammatical rules, but it's extremely hard to make the transition from reading prose word-by-word to reading…
on “How to learn a new language in 90 days” ↗