Sunday, October 10, 2010

Make Your Language Learning Easier and Interesting

Learning  a new language is one  of the most tedious task and there are many problems that surface when someone starts learning a new language. There would be many barrier in front of you and you needs to cross those barriers successfully to master the new language. The ability to learn a new language often varies in people of different ages.

The basic success factor in learning any language is the willingness and enthusiasm to learn it and it should come from our inner mind. It you have enough enthusiasm to learn any language, then there is no looking back. Make sure that your language learning starts from the basics, and while going forward you should have your basics right and firm. Once you get the basics right, then learning a new language would be much more interesting and helps you to master it easily.

A few months back, one of my friend who was working with a call center, suddenly faced the need to learn some new languages such as German, Russian and French. Even though he was above par at handling English, he felt heart broken when his job demanded him to learn 3 new languages. All he knew was 2-3 words from German, and he was a total big zero at French and Russian languages.  His confidence level also dipped to an all time low and found it difficult to find a solution. He even thought of quitting his job, but since he was working with a top notch firm he was doubtful whether to leave the company or take up the challenge of learning German, Russian and French.

At this time that he happened to meet me and I was working on some of my freelance projects. He told me that he was planning to quit the job, and when I heard about the reason behind it, I really felt sorry for him and felt like helping him at any cost. I had few clients who were into language training and other stuffs and I referred him some websites which offered some amazing  and useful language training and tools. I was pretty sure that he can get some good help from some of these sites and I encouraged him to try some of these.

He made a research on these site and their abilities and he also came across Rosetta Stone Review at one of these site which proved a decisive factor for his language learning campaign. Any how he started using one of the above tool and started the art of language learning. I also suggested him watching movies of these languages which had English translation, so that he could get more idea about the language.

Almost after 1-2 months he became successful in learning these languages and also got a decent promotion.  Currently he is the only guy in his company who have good command over English, German, French and Russian languages at the same time.  This was yet another added advantage for his career.

What I am going to say is that if you have the will power, dedication, the right attitude and enthusiasm to learn any language, there is nothing to stop you. If you have all these qualities combined with a bit of hard work can get you where you need to be. You may make mistakes while learning, but don't get demoralized with these mistakes. Make sure that you convert these mistakes triumphs with your sheer determination and dedication. I would like to offer some more language learning tips in the coming months. Till then please wait patiently.

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