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How to Learn a New Language as an Adult (Masterclass)

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Overview

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This Course teaches you how to go about Learning Languages as an adult. You will learn how to find your purpose for learning a language, how to use this as motivation, how to maintain your drive, and how to identify what to learn, what to concentrate on, and how to measure your achievements and points to be improved upon. In short, everything you need for learning any new language!

Learn a New Language at Any Age!

One of the biggest fallacies in language learning today is the idea that only young kids can learn new languages, and that, once you've reached a certain age, you shouldn't even bother learning a new language. Unfortunately, many of us believe this because we've observed this first hand. We learned a language when we were young, or we know someone who grew up with more than one language, but when we try to learn a new language as adults, it seems to be a never-ending process with no improvement.

This Course demonstrates A) why this fallacy is incorrect and B) how you can learn a new language at any age!

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

- Nelson Mandela

Content Overview

This course is structured to serve as reference material, as well as a guide for your specific language learning journey, no matter what your native tongue or your source language may be. As such, the material is created to be as actionable as possible. It starts with the basics, delving deeper and deeper into what it means to learn your new language. After this you will find other notes, things to keep in mind, and also many Tips and Tricks!

At the very end, you will find a downloadable Template you can fill out in order to create your own schedule for your Language Learning Journey. The very last lesson will walk you through this Template.

“Learning another language is like becoming another person.”

– Haruki Murakami

Syllabus

  • Unedited Introduction
  • 1 Why "As an Adult"?
  • 2 This Works for ALL Languages?
  • 3 Have You Picked Your Language?
  • 4 Your Goal
  • 5 How to Learn (Auditory, Visual, Tactile)
  • 6 Components
  • 7 Listening
  • 8 Listening 2
  • 9 Listening Speed
  • 10 Listening Subtitles
  • 11 Listening Songs
  • 11a Listening Songs Verbs
  • 12 Listening Commercials
  • 13 Guess What These Commercials are about
  • 14 Speaking
  • 15 Speaking Expressions
  • 15 Speaking Pronunciation
  • Speaking - Using "but"
  • 16 Reading
  • 17 Reading What Can You Read?
  • 18 Reading Reward Yourself
  • 20 Reading Change it up
  • Reading: Staggering Textbook Lessons
  • 21 Writing
  • 22 Writing Online Resources
  • 23 Writing Flashcards
  • 24 Writing How I Use Flashcards
  • 24b Writing Translation
  • 25 Scheduling
  • 26 Scheduling Kaizen Method
  • 27 Scheduling Monthly Review
  • 28 Scheduling The Long Term
  • 28b Scheduling Things to Keep in Mind
  • 29 APP Mania
  • Which Apps should You use?
  • 30 Mistakes
  • 31 Language Structure
  • 32 Things to Keep in Mind
  • 32b Rote Memorization
  • 33 Lesser known languages
  • 34 Tips and Tricks Fake Immersion
  • 35 Tips and Tricks Talk to Yourself!
  • 36 Tips and Tricks Have Fun with it!
  • 37 Tips and Tricks Need More Motivation?
  • 38 Tips and Tricks Hobbies
  • 39 Tips and Tricks Label objects
  • 40 Tips and Tricks Etymology
  • Tips and Tricks - No Such Thing as Direct Translation
  • Use Your AI Speaker
  • 40a Maintaining Languages
  • 40b Maintaining Your Language 2
  • 41 Mnemonics
  • 42 My Learning Method

Taught by

Robert G

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