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TwitterIf you ever studied a foreign language you possibly noticed that although you composed sentences and wrote texts correctly, understood the text-book records but when you started talking to the native speaker you found out you didn't understand anything, or understood only some words that didn't make any sense. The you start thinking you didn't study well enough or you are not good at learning languages. How not to give up?
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Январь 6th, 2009 5 Comments
1. Find a good text-book. I am very picky about that.
2. When I work with the text-book I write down all the lessons in my notepad shortly as a conspectus. I have the notepad in my bag wherever I go and look into it from time to time when I can, for example in trains or the subway. I write down the examples mostly because this is how I understand the subject the best. When I started to study Japanese I used an old Soviet text-book. It was OK and contained the modern Japanese but it also had many texts and exercises about the October revolution, Lenin and so on. And it’s not the vocabulary I normally use and phrases about that are usually hard to understand hence to remember. And they are always long. Sentences like that also sound pretty officially though my goal is to talk the normal language, not slogans. So I pay more attention to examples talking about weather, people, animals, etc. because I can understand what they are saying thus they are easier to remember.
