The advantages of a bilingual brain - Mia Nacamulli
The complexity of sloven Cina ISN Slovenian t the main reason some try to learn; the real reason anyone looking to learn is that usually speak your native language Slovenes.
In Europe, in third place come the Slovenes in speaking a foreign language Europeans claim they are multilingual, but 44 percent of EU citizens can only speak one language.
However, it is almost impossible to find a monolingual person in Slovenia While 28 percent of Europeans speak at least three languages, a whopping 71 percent of Slovenes are at least trilingual Only the Netherlands and Luxembourg 75 92 have higher percentages.
In Eastern Europe, I often had to ask 10 random people to find a good English speaker in Slovenia, I had to ask 10 people to find a person who does not normally English They also spoke them speak Croatian, Italian or German and many shelves three of them.
I also met many Slovenes including Spanish, thanks to telenovelas Sanela Kadić, a Slovenian who is fluent in six languages, said, always do the Slovenes effort to learn the languages of others, so that no cares to learn Slovenian.
This is the price you pay for being a nation of only two million surrounded by much larger language regions Italy, Germany, South Slavic, however, the Slovenes are rightfully frustrated that some immigrants living in Slovenia for years and never learn Since the Slovenian correctly Slovenians are the masters to learn several languages, they can teach the world how they do it.
With seven Trilingual 10 Slovenes, they know all the tricks to learn a language faster They shared their tips with me.
First, he Sá myth that children are better at learning languages than adults If an adult spends as much time as a child to learn Latvian, he will know just as well as a child's only children due seem to learn faster than adults is that they spend more time studying.
However, a child has an advantage over an adult pronunciation Even if a child of eight can t learn faster than a 40 year old Bulgarian, the child will be better to speak to him without accent, before age 14, the Men are able to mimic the sounds of good English However, after 14, we begin to lose this ability as why some American immigrants use words that only a Scrabble nut would know, but tell them with an accent.
Now that you know that you can learn any language, let s see how quickly do Slovenians Andreja Nastasja Terbos, who is fluent in three languages and proficient in another three, offered excellent advice do what kids do.
Read children's books and comics All basic vocabulary use, basic grammar, and useful pictures.
Don t feel stupid reading Little Red Riding Hood Hungarian.
When you read books, don t discourage you by trying to understand everything.
Favoring small dictionaries because they are easy to carry and have the essential words.
Improve your vocabulary by associating the experience you're more likely to remember what I alnik if you use one, it is a Slovenian mixer.
Listen to music in your desired language, decode the lyrics and sing.
Many children aren t afraid to make mistakes you either.
If you lack discipline, hire a young tutor They're not expensive and are unlikely to teach you the traditional way is not used to say something encourage learning solo on group learning.
The Slovenian wife of a Belgian man explained how she helped him become fluent in Slovenian Write text messages because you are limited to 140 characters, it is good for simple phrases It is also good to receive a text message, because the decoding is like a mini-exercise.
My friend Slovenian, From a Novec Tru, fluent in five languages and advises that if the interest of several languages you, start with the easiest Some believe I will learn Japanese, because if I can learn, I can learn anything Yes, that's true, but you might commit harakiri first.
Choose something that helps you make rapid progress Once you have one or two languages in the bag, learning a fourth or fifth language becomes easier, even if they're strange that s how Pope John Paul II has taught more than a dozen languages.
This strategy works because sometimes seemingly unrelated languages have something in common at random, for example, in Russian, means Mokri wet Since I speak Spanish, Mokri remember the Spanish word mojado, which also means wet.
A Slovenian language teacher advised me, LEARN first verbs verbs are at the heart of any sentence Without them, phrase collapses Another strategy is to first learn the most common words Although each language has its own list of words, use this list as a starting point, and translate these hundreds of words in the language you want to learn the best way to learn is by association use how the word is written or the way he seems to associate it with something for example, in Slovenia I remember ljudje people by thinking about a bunch of shameless people; or remember the action iti dol down an E T I visualize doll down.
Anamarija my Mi, a Slovenian who has five languages, helped by sticking a piece of paper all the objects in the house and write what it was this way, you learn as you enter the gate vrata using a key Kljuc, then look at yourself in the Ogledalo mirror, put your coat in the closet of Omara, open the hladilnik fridge to get a six pack pivo beer and get drunk on the sofa KAVC say high words voice when you see them and possibly add verbs to describe how you interact with the object.
Everyone knows that the best way to learn a language is to live in a country that speaks, but many who don t be so lucky Completely submerge instead, they find themselves with people who prefer to speak in English tips welcome English speakers with a smile, then run away.
However, if you live in Kentucky and you want to learn Romanian Thanks to the Internet, it is easy to find speakers of a language in your Believe it or not community, there are about 150 in Dakota North Slovenes.
Watching foreign films with subtitles; if you look enough, you'll begin to understand the language.
When you are good enough, watch them with subtitles in the language you are trying to learn that you learn how to write and listen at the same time Dubbing doesn t seem to be a big deal, but the average guy spends thousands hours watching television each year and movies can teach us subtitling passively another language.
While these are all great shortcuts to learning a language, in the end, you will need to invest hundreds of hours to become proficient There is no magic formula that you will be fluent in a week Put these hours, allowing a language infiltrates every part of your life then, like a child in a few months you'll be speaking a strange language.
Francis Tapon has traveled to 80 countries and has spent the last three years traveling across 25 countries of Eastern Europe is the author of the new book, The Hidden Europe What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us This Article is an adapted excerpt from the chapter on Slovenia.
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