Talk:How to Learn a Language

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 * 19:34, 11 Nov 2004 Eliazar (some restructuring...)
 * 19:18, 11 Nov 2004 Eliazar (Speaking and understanding - radio broadcasts)
 * 18:58, 11 Nov 2004 Eliazar m (Reading and writing)
 * 06:14, 11 Nov 2004 68.227.20.42 (is -> are)
 * 06:03, 11 Nov 2004 201.133.186.114 (Reading and writing)
 * 03:43, 11 Nov 2004 Samaritan m (Reading and writing - linked The Little Prince, speed reading, syntax edit)
 * 01:26, 8 Nov 2004 Jondel (External links)
 * 16:42, 4 Nov 2004 83.70.192.189 (small change: fix some markup)
 * 16:39, 4 Nov 2004 83.70.192.189 (small change: remove childishism)
 * 03:19, 24 Oct 2004 194.24.244.5
 * 01:11, 21 Oct 2004 Jondel (See also)
 * 00:39, 21 Oct 2004 Jondel (See also)
 * 15:37, 18 Oct 2004 Wayland (Categories)
 * 06:46, 29 Sep 2004 Jondel (External links)
 * 06:46, 29 Sep 2004 Jondel (External links)
 * 06:45, 29 Sep 2004 Jondel (External links)
 * 01:19, 23 Sep 2004 Michael Hardy m
 * 01:02, 20 Sep 2004 Elkmann (added external link)
 * 00:52, 20 Sep 2004 Elkmann (Reading & Writing)
 * 06:51, 12 Sep 2004 PierreAbbat (Same book in two languages)
 * 09:56, 10 Sep 2004 Jondel (Children)
 * 23:46, 29 Aug 2004 69.106.5.88 (useless comma)
 * 18:46, 29 Aug 2004 RedWolf m (disambiguation: French)
 * 12:45, 28 Aug 2004 Andycjp m (link)
 * 07:48, 25 Aug 2004 Jondel
 * 07:41, 25 Aug 2004 Jondel
 * 20:18, 19 Aug 2004 149.225.58.57 (Speaking and understanding)
 * 01:26, 18 Aug 2004 BenjBot m (Benjamin Goldenberg - Robot-assisted disambiguation: Accent)
 * 23:10, 3 Aug 2004 Andycjp m (Reading & Writing - link)
 * 16:32, 2 Aug 2004 Fibonacci m (Reading & Writing - Eliminating duplicated link)
 * 16:29, 2 Aug 2004 Fibonacci m (Speaking and understanding - Fixing links)
 * 05:22, 26 Jul 2004 Jondel (Speaking and understanding)
 * 05:22, 26 Jul 2004 Jondel (Speaking and understanding)
 * 05:21, 26 Jul 2004 Jondel (Speaking and understanding)
 * 02:15, 14 Jul 2004 Jondel (Reading & Writing)
 * 02:14, 14 Jul 2004 Jondel (Reading & Writing)
 * 02:13, 14 Jul 2004 Jondel (Reading & Writing)
 * 02:12, 14 Jul 2004 Jondel (Reading & Writing)
 * 06:29, 7 Jul 2004 Woggly m
 * 06:23, 7 Jul 2004 Woggly
 * 02:24, 7 Jul 2004 Eliazar (added new section: Polishing)
 * 23:22, 4 Jul 2004 Jondel (Speaking and understanding)
 * 23:22, 4 Jul 2004 Jondel (Speaking and understanding)
 * 12:20, 4 Jul 2004 Gdr m (Speaking & Understanding)
 * 02:50, 1 Jul 2004 68.158.66.27
 * 21:15, 30 Jun 2004 205.188.116.143 (tried to categorize the tips, rewording where necessary)
 * 05:12, 22 Jun 2004 Eliazar m
 * 09:32, 27 May 2004 148.233.86.206 (minor: added "at no cost")
 * 09:26, 27 May 2004 148.233.86.206 (changes: is -> it, the -> a, and added 5 tips (the last ones))
 * 04:14, 27 May 2004 Togo (Further Links)
 * 04:07, 27 May 2004 Togo (Furter Links)
 * 03:54, 27 May 2004 Togo (Links)
 * 00:28, 26 May 2004 Jondel
 * 00:27, 26 May 2004 Jondel
 * 22:42, 25 May 2004 66.169.119.161
 * 03:57, 10 May 2004 Premeditated Chaos
 * 10:08, 1 May 2004 M.e (wikified the formatting)
 * 09:47, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel
 * 09:45, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel
 * 09:42, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel
 * 09:41, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel (Simulate dialogues in your head while waiting in line.)
 * 08:37, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel
 * 08:34, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel (language learning requires evoked emotions and whole thought- phrases.)
 * 08:26, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel
 * 08:22, 20 Apr 2004 Jondel

-- Francs2000 00:35, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

17 Nov 2004 Jondel reloaded the whole most recent article from wikipedia.--Jondel 07:31, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Passive Learning
There are several points in the article that suggest passive or subconscious learning. I'm not familiar with any studies supporting this theory. I'd suggest either referencing something on the subject or removing them. My field is technology and language pedagogy, so I could just be unfamiliar with the research, but I'm skeptical. It seems as though people have been adding tips onto a list for sometime. A bit of cleaning my be due. I would suggest an introduction to foreign language pedagogy based on resources from scholar.google.com, with the rest of the article, or separate articles, based on the four basic skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

(bryantt)


 * I'm not familiar with much about language learning, but you can add citation needed as a compromise for now.
 * There don't seem to be many active editors here so if you figure you can improve the book without upsetting anyone, just be bold and fix it up. --Swift (talk) 18:59, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Audiobook (Pimsleur?)
This wikibook is a great effort to provide instructional tools in learning foreign language. It would be great if there is an accompanying audio instruction.

Recently I've been using Pimsleur methods to learn spanish, and I find it very good. If anyone is an expert in liguistic and language instructional methods, and is interested in doing Pimsleur audio on Indonesian language, I'd be delighted to help to read out the phrases, since I'm an indonesian native speaker. However, I can't be the one who organize and edit the audio because I don't have experience in language teaching methods. Besides, I think "pimsleur method" itself is not copyrighted (am I correct) although there are pimsleur branded instructional recordings released by Simon and Schuster. Hence I'd think it's possible to replicate the method and record our own instructional recordings in order to make language instruction more accessible (currently the Simon and Schuster Pimsleur is really expensive!).

Chaerani 01:46, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikiprojet languages
I have started Wikiproject languages‎. Feel free to edit that page, add comment, critics and being bold.--Oualmakran Youssef 12:33, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Mnemosyne software
I suggest that you add information about spaced-repetition software such as Mnemosyne software to the memorization section. I personally found it extremely helpful for memorization. I also suggest that you discuss IPA a bit in the section on pronunciation. 98.14.222.130 (talk) --SvenAERTS (discuss • contribs) 12:00, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

== Learning languages fast ! Encourage contributing to a list of words that both languages have in common or are very similar or easy to remember - that's a real giveaway - and little useful easy phrases and mnemotechnic means on how to remember them == It's alway very encouraging when you get to know some words in a foreign language fast. And why not start with an easy to remember list of words that are similar or very similar or for some reason easy to remember using a mnemotechnic means. Then why not start with some easy and very useful phrases and then spin out and learning how to conjugate verbs used in these very useful phrases?

--SvenAERTS (discuss • contribs) 11:41, 19 April 2013 (UTC)