EPTLanguage Learners' Thread - Page 4
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hp.Shell
United States2527 Posts
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StillRooney
Sweden106 Posts
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ToT)OjKa(
Korea (South)2437 Posts
I remember some real life examples from my Korean friends studying English. They use many colloquial books with many phrases in them. | ||
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StillRooney
Sweden106 Posts
Unrelated, I recently started learning Esperanto, and it's great fun! I'd recommend it to anyone who wants an easy language that will help them learn subsequent languages. There have been a lot of studies done on the propaedeutic value of Esperanto, for example in one case, one class studied French for 4 years while another studied Esperanto for 1 year and then French for 3 years, and the latter group ended up with a higher level of French than the former. A good resource to start with is www.lernu.net. | ||
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Najda
United States3765 Posts
On July 04 2014 19:32 StillRooney wrote: Yeah, I think many people overfocus on reading and vocabulary practice when they'd benefit alot more from speaking the language with native people (skype etc) or actively writing stuff outside of the "school format". Unrelated, I recently started learning Esperanto, and it's great fun! I'd recommend it to anyone who wants an easy language that will help them learn subsequent languages. There have been a lot of studies done on the propaedeutic value of Esperanto, for example in one case, one class studied French for 4 years while another studied Esperanto for 1 year and then French for 3 years, and the latter group ended up with a higher level of French than the former. A good resource to start with is www.lernu.net. The trouble is finding those people to practice speaking with, and also getting to a point where you can actually have even a basic conversation in the language. I try to talk to myself in French when I can but I rarely know enough words to complete a natural sounding sentence. Also about Esperanto, what is it about the language that makes subsequent languages easier to learn, and do people actually use that language outside of academically? | ||
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