Learning a New Language

<p>Learning a new language can easily overwhelm a person. A person who sets out to do so is immediately overwhelmed by the sheer choices. Numerous (and expensive) websites, apps, software, classes, and books all claim to help you learn your target language in two months, 15 minutes a day, in your sleep, for free, for the low price of $10/hour, and so on.</p> <p>Even when you get started, you may find the task to be monumental. Today, you learned ten words, only 1,990 to go to be conversational and 19,990 to speak like a native speaker. The next day, you forgot those ten words. In a month, you&rsquo;ve learned a hundred words but you don&rsquo;t understand why they get used in a certain way in a sentence, and the way the words are said on your favorite French TV show doesn&rsquo;t sound anything like on the app you are listening to.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/the-finer-things/learning-a-foreign-language-ad21db8193"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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