Best ways to learn second language

Best ways to learn second language

Introduction

Learning language is a kind of an adventure trip where you explore different dimensions of second language. The journey of learning second language will widen your knowledge and capacity to receive. It is frustrating at times when it limits your expression and feelings due to your inability to speak language spoken in foreign language. In my opinion, this is almost like illiterate in this modern world of high technology as you are unable to read and write. Therefore, learning second language is very important at this age of globalization where world is getting smaller and smaller. There could be many ways to learn second language; living with native speaker family, befriending native speaker, dinning in restaurants serving more native speaker, keeping the list of must to learn words, reading books, going to theaters and movies, etc. one can have more than earlier mentioned to do list for learning second language. But I am sure this “my to-do list” would be good enough to learn any second language.

Living with native speaker

In my opinion sharing living with native speaker of second language is a very good way of learning new language. Sharing foods, lives at daily basis helps you to learn quickly. By living with native speaker, your chance of knowing new words increases and so is, the chances of relating the new words. Your chances of forgetting the words and its meaning would be lesser if the words are learnt in this way. When you are living with native speaker you will learn the words pertaining to culture and festivals of second language. While I was in high school I participated in cultural exchange program with American students. In this program, all the participating students shared room with American students. This helped me learning English as well as American culture. I learnt about Thanksgiving day, Hallwoon nights and the American students learnt about our festival and customs. My personal experience of sharing lives with native speaker helps a lot in learning new language. That is one reason for me to advocate about this method for learning.

Reading books and magazine, and watching movies and listening songs

Reading books is another best ways of learning second language. This is a self learning method and completely depends on the dedication of the learner. Because reading is also about habit formation. Reading helps you learning formal form of second language. As, all the written materials are proof-read and edited before publication. This will help you learning the sentence formation in that language and basics of grammar. Reading will also increase you learning and help you in your writing if you want to make career by writing in that language. Good way of reading would be trying to read in as many field as you could. You can read from literature, science and fiction, short stories, articles etc. you can make a habit of reading newspaper every morning. Reading newspaper will informed you about the society and culture and you will be able to learn more about language. As I am in process of learning English language I make sure I read newspaper daily. I also read all kinds of materials written in English. It could be anything fashion magazine sometimes and sometimes it’s a novel. In addition to reading, watching movies and documentaries also helps you learn second language quickly. It is been said that human perceive and receive more information if the information is delivered in audio-visual medium. Watching movies are very good mediums of audio-visuals. And if the movies are tailored to spellbound the audience your chances of learning language is more. Similarly, music is good way to learn more about any language. My friends could relate to music while learning English language. Though, for me it was not a good help.

Friendship with native speaker

We are social animal and need companion. It would be very difficult to lead life without friends. We make friends wherever we go and in all stages of life. Nothing can be more fun than making friends who can speak the language you want speak and learnt. You will enjoy learning new language from new friend and you will not feel like bearing the burden of learning new language. It is a kind of learning while having fun. While making friends you must make sure that you stick to speaking the second language. Sometimes, our friends turns out to be multi-linguistic and would switch to and fro from one language to another depending on the ease of your language. In such case, strict practices of speaking in second language will only help to learn otherwise you may not be able to benefit from the friendship. Otherwise, you could be benefited from this friendship in many ways. You can enjoy eating out, go for touring around the city, and meet more native speaker.

Conclusion

At the end of the day, we can say learning second language could be more fun than one could anticipate. I am confident that the ways; living with native speaker, reading books, and friendship with native speaker will definitely help you learn second language. Once you learn second language. It is a whole lot of different world and knowledge. Learning second language help you travel to new place and you can generate income for yourself if you wish to. You could be interpreter for people who can speak that language. Learning new language helped you have new friends and helped you know more about other people’s culture and language.