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Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/TLiJh8 My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve I am asked this question a lot. As you can imagine, there is no simple answer. Here are the factors I think influence what makes a language “easy to learn”. Georges Moustaki - Le Métèque https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV8fGf-N06A

Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/sg8Kcv My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve I consider comprehension to be the most important langauge skill. It’s always my strategy when starting a new language to expose myself to as much content in the as I can to improve my understanding. As long as you can understand, you can figure out a way to respond. The only way to get better at responding is to speak, even if you make mistakes and feel embarrassed. If you don’t put yourself out there, you aren’t going to improve. It’s an uncomfortable but vital part of the language learning process.

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/4aAwuF The LingQ challenges are a great way to stay motivated when studying a new language. You can try the 90-Day Challenge, the hardcore 90-Day Challenge (good luck!) or the Monthly LingQing Challenge. Keep tabs on other LingQ members by checking the leaderboard and see how far away you are from the top spot. There's nothing like a healthy dose of competition to get you reaching your goals!

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/FQ4GYd Everyone has a preferred way of learning, that's why we made the LingQ reader customizable. Change the font, page length, text-to-speech voice and more to make your language learning the most effective.

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/2YQdmG Teach the system words you know and words you're learning by making LingQs. LingQs are made when you click on a blue word and choose a translation. The word then becomes yellow and the is saved in the system so you can review it in activities and future lessons. You can't make too many LingQs!

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/GUj7Z6 A motivated language learner is a successful language learner, and nothing motivates more than a genuine interest. That's why it's so important to have interesting content in your target language. At LingQ, adding content you're interested in reading and listening to is easy. This tutorial shows you how it's done.

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/fGcsuH Writing is a great way to practice your target language. You can use words and phrases you've come across in LingQ lessons and there's less pressure than with speaking. On LingQ you can submit writing for native speakers to correct for you. You'll get a writing report highlighting what you need to work on. This report can be imported as a lesson on LingQ so you can LingQ the words and phrases you struggle with.

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/WjKwvc I don't have time to learn a language! It'a a common complaint. That's why we created the LingQ app and playlist. You can add audio to your playlist on the web and listen to it on the app when you're out and about. Everything is synced, so all listening time is logged and added to your statistics. No more excuses, get learning that new language!

Sign up for LingQ free: https://goo.gl/nL9VPi You can find all kinds of content in your target language on the LingQ Lessons page. This quick tutorial shows you how to set your language level, search the library, save lessons and view your most recent lessons.

Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/WY37DF My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve

Sign up for the 30-day email course here: https://www.thelinguist.com/ How to Learn A Language: Lesson 11👇 I want to talk about something that makes LingQ excellent: the ability it gives learners to learn from content they find interesting. As I’ve said before, it’s very important that we have interesting and comprehensible input (reading and listening) if we are to successfully learn a language. Whether you want to read simplified news or advanced literature in your target language, you can with the LingQ importing feature, and the LingQ browser extension makes it even easier to turn content you find online into a lesson. Extensions are available for Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Once you’ve installed the extension, you can simply click the LingQ logo in your browser at any time and the content from that page will be turned into a lesson. If you really want to challenge yourself, you can try reading a book in your target language. You can import the ebook and audiobook and read along while you listen. It’s a great way to expose yourself to lots of new words and phrases. Today’s Tasks ✅Import something that looks interesting in your target language. If you can’t think of anything you would like to import, try importing a news story from the lesson feed. ✅Meet your targets for the day.

Sign up for the 30-day email course here: https://www.thelinguist.com/ How to Learn A Language: Day 7 👇 Today I want to focus on your language goals and what you can do to motivate yourself to achieve them. Why did you start this language learning journey? Do you want to be able to hold your own in a conversation with a native speaker on any topic? Are you more interested in learning the basics so you can get around on a trip? Maybe you’re an intermediate learner who wants to become advanced, or a beginner who would like to get to the stage where you can read the newspaper in your target language. Your goal could be big or small, it’s just important to have one in mind. Visualize yourself achieving these goals. You might even want to post your goal on the LingQ forum of Facebook page. You’ll find other language learners there to give you advice and support, and making your goal public will keep you accountable. Another way to keep yourself accountable is by tracking your results, that’s why all achievements are tracked on LingQ: known words, LingQs, LingQs learned, hours of listening and speaking and words of reading and writing. That way you can see how close you are to reaching your goals at any time. The most important achievement is known words as they are what raise you up to the next level of proficiency. The more words you know in your target language, the bigger your avatar gets. There are the different level milestones for different languages. The tens of thousands of words needed to be considered advanced might seem impossible now, but you’ll get there if you put a little effort in each day. You can see your targets on the Lesson page or on your profile. You can check how you did yesterday, over the past seven days, the past month all the way up until how hard you’ve worked throughout your whole time as a LingQ member. If you’re at all competitive, you might want to see how your statistics compare to those of other LingQ members. You can do this by going to a particular member’s profile. You can also sign up for a LingQ challenge. That way you can see the statistics of the other challengers on the challenge page. Today’s Tasks ✅Meet your targets for the day. ✅Take a look at the challenges page and join a challenge!