How to Learn a Language

Immersing yourself in your target language through media leads to a more natural, effective and fun process of language learning.

Happiness… As beautiful when it finally occurs, as complex the journey is. What if you can be embraced with happiness by the magic of letters. Amel looks over what a simple thing like reading attitude can brought to you.

Cary looks at a unique way to learn a language: following a recipe! Here, Cary teaches Spanish through a recipe for Mexican enchiladas. 

Learners of a second language are often told they must speak to learn it. Claudia examines this emphasis on speech and reflects on the importance of acquiring a language’s writing system and punctuation rules.

Cian delves into the great debate in language learning - whether you should learn in the traditional way (using grammar, vocabulary lists and verb tables) or by just reading and listening to lots of interesting content that you understand. The research is quite clear that just reading and listening is a much more effective strategy. 

Cian reflects on the painful language learning memorisation that was encouraged in school and proposes the direction we really should be headed in to learn languages.