Welcome to my new blog about language learning.
In my ventures of trying to learn new languages, I've learned that there are many different ways to learn a language. The first strategy I'm going to discuss is actually speaking with native speakers of a language. I think this way is the best because even if you spend years taking a class on the structure of it, there still is a lot of vocabulary, and it's important to know if people understand you or not. On this site LiveMocha, I was talking to someone in a language I learned from school and everything was going fine until I tried to say that I had to leave and the person said (I'm guessing the site translated it to English) "I'm not sure what you want to say." I know this example doesn't seem like it means anything but I think this is a perfect example of how talking to a native speaker is different that translating a sentence in class. Although as native speakers of a language we don't realize it, a lot of what we say is contextual and I think that's a big issue when you go from learning a language to actually using it.
In my ventures of trying to learn new languages, I've learned that there are many different ways to learn a language. The first strategy I'm going to discuss is actually speaking with native speakers of a language. I think this way is the best because even if you spend years taking a class on the structure of it, there still is a lot of vocabulary, and it's important to know if people understand you or not. On this site LiveMocha, I was talking to someone in a language I learned from school and everything was going fine until I tried to say that I had to leave and the person said (I'm guessing the site translated it to English) "I'm not sure what you want to say." I know this example doesn't seem like it means anything but I think this is a perfect example of how talking to a native speaker is different that translating a sentence in class. Although as native speakers of a language we don't realize it, a lot of what we say is contextual and I think that's a big issue when you go from learning a language to actually using it.
