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Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/EdLngu My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve There are lots of different ways you can get stared learning a new language; it really depends on your preference. The most important thing to know at the beginning is it takes a long time to gain comfortable competence in a language. Know that you'll be in it for the long haul and enjoy the journey.

Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/hVCDib My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve Benny Lewis of Fluent in 3 Months has teamed up with Teach Yourself and created the Language Hacking series of books for French, Italian, Spanish and German learners. I always get myself a book when starting out in a language, and after looking over Benny’s beginner books, I recommend them if you’re starting out in any of these languages. They are well done and the information isn’t too daunting for beginner learners–a great introduction to the language. You can even study the first 15 conversations in each language from the accompanying CD on LingQ! French: https://www.lingq.com/learn/fr/web/course/296518 Spanish: https://www.lingq.com/learn/es/web/course/294118 German: https://www.lingq.com/learn/de/web/course/296567 Italian: https://www.lingq.com/learn/it/web/course/296526

Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/b592ik My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve Soon I will head of on my travels to Israel and Greece. I'm excited that I will get the opportunity to try out my Greek and learn some Hebrew.

Timelines: 0:06 話す能力をどういう風に改善する？/ How do you improve your speaking skills? 0:45 第１点：流暢に話すためにたくさん話さないといけない。/ Point #1: In order to speak fluently you must speak a lot. 1:14 第２点：言葉の勉強の初めに話す必要はない。/ Point #2: There is no need to speak at the beginner stage. 2:26 第３点：話すなら意味がある話しないとダメ。/ Point #3: Have meaningful conversations. 3:44 第４点：実際の言葉没入。/ Point #4: Get immersed into the language environment. 4:43 英語の小説を読みますか？ / Can you really read novels in the language you learn? 6:23 話すために準備をしないといけない。/ To speak well you need to get prepared thoroughly. 7:43 ８０％は難しい、２０％は簡単。/ 80% - complex content, 20% - simple content. 8:31 話す能力を改善する活動の種類。/ Ways of improving speaking skills. 9:41 言葉の環境なしで話す能力は限度がある。/ Without language environment your speaking will always remain limited. Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/6Eyj7s My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve

Visit LingQ: https://goo.gl/PNiRVP My Blog: http://blog.thelinguist.com My Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/lingosteve My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lingosteve I concentrate a lot on input, lots of reading and listening to interesting content, when I learn a new language. My goal though is always to be able to output, to speak this new language well. Here is what my experience with learning almost 20 languages has taught me are the best ways to improve your speaking skills in your target language. 0:18 My goal in a new language is always to speak well. 0:39 To speak well you must speak a lot. 1:06 It doesn’t matter when you start to speak your new language. 1:57 You need meaningful interaction with the language. 2:36 Don’t be too hard on yourself. 4:30 Build your skills with extensive reading and listening.

This is just for me. I am going to link this to my profile at LingQ. I think this is a useful thing for us to do to keep track of our progress. We can make them private or public. We'll see how this goes.

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.