How to learn a language.

I found that the best way to learn a foreign language is to learn with someone; there are two ways to do this: visit the country which speaks the language you want to learn (you did say you want to visit a few places, right?)thus, you will learn along with the locals or join a class - again, in the class you must try and speak as much as possible without worrying about making mistakes. I found it is really hard to learn alone along with tapes/DVDs. Hope this helps - PS - By the way, what language are you trying to learn? (I won;t be surprized if you say latin, that is if you don't know it already)

I am trying to learn Spanish myself. A lot of people say the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in it. Maybe go to the country where the language is spoken. If you can't afford that, go to the library and get tapes and dubbed movies.

There are different techniques and depend of the individual perception. Some learn more visually, some-when they listen. Some use special notes with words...some prefer to visit courses, some learn better allone...

Well undoubtedly the easiest way to learn a language is to live in the country, or certainly to be surrounded by it all day, so that you hear it constantly. No amount of book learning or studying can take the place of having to communicate on a day-to-day basis and actually hearing the everyday language, in my opinion. I was bought up bi-lingual with an English Father and a Russian Mother, so I could speak both languages fluently before I was about 4 years old, and because my partner is from Argentina, I learnt fluent Spanish very quickly just from living with him, and hearing him speak to him family on the phone, and also listening to Spanish-speaking radio and TV stations that he prefers to listen to at home. Some of the cassette/audio tapes you can buy are pretty good I think, as you can just leave them on in the background – when you’re driving, on a cassette player when you’re out jogging or whatever, or just round the house when you’re doing housework, so you get the “subliminal messages” from them. I do believe that some people are naturally more gifted at languages than others – I also speak fluent French and Serbo-Croat and I’m sure being bought up in a bi-lingual household made my ears more receptive to languages from an early age, but I’m sure anyone can learn with a bit of patience and perseverance. Good Luck

I remember you telling me that you find hard learning a foreign language..well, learning a language can be quite hard, the more different it is from our own language the harder. But I think that if you like learning languages and if you do want to learn it, there is no real difficulty. The first thing is not to be afraid of making mistakes and not worrying too much about them..then you need to know a bit of grammar and vocabulary and then..then the best things are reading books written in that language, and of course speaking (and writing) with a mother-tongue speaker!!! I am sure you can learn any language if you want and like it...of course it will take a bit before you can be excellent but the more you learn the more you love it!!! this is what happened with me with English and I hope I can improve my English and then start studying another language...maybe Spanish...if you want, of course, I can help you with your Italian!!!

I think the easiest way to learn a foreign language is to have regular conversations with a person talking that language. Reading books in that language will also help. To me English is a foriegn language. But in real sense it is not. English is an official language in our country and also it is used as a link language among people talking defferent Indian languages. Some people are good at learning to talk various languages. I think learning french, German etc. will be easier to you English people.

I have learned french in the school, I started very early age so it was easy and natural. But then I had to learn english at a higher age and it was more difficult. The most helpful for me was to hear englsh songs (amazingly Bob Marley's) and then search for the lyrics, the translations, and try to sign them myself. This way I learned a lot more than with books and school techniques.

Hi urbandekay! I know 4-5 languages myself. I learned from the learn language books and was never scared of talking in public in that language. I also use to watch movies and news of that language. I would like to add that if you have the will to learn you can learn.