Ear method for learning a spoken language.

Do you speak the language of the community they are assigned?
this is a method consisting of tips and techniques that will help you learn an unwritten language, and will serve you if you search for an unorthodox but effective way to learn a written language, speaking and thinking in this language even before learning to read.
The method is designed to learn the language of a new culture of adoption, perhaps by a recent move to a place where there is daily contact with native speakers who can become their informers and teachers.
1. Resolve to learn:
The first thing to do is decide to follow this method, and then continue with the techniques for three months. The method is not difficult, it's actually surprisingly simple, but requires persistence and a firm resolve to use it until the end.
Read the following notes, and decide whether to use them. The choice is yours.
2. Organize the coming months:
The optimal period is ninety days. You only need between five and fifteen minutes a day, preferably in two or three periods of two to four minutes each. This method does not steal much of their other obligations or their leisure time.
3. The goal is fluency:
This method will help you become fluent in the language. "Fluency" means being able to think and communicate in that language. This does not mean that you will have a large vocabulary from the beginning, but will give you the tools to acquire, as it did (and still does) with their mother tongue.
4. Use travel routes already established language of your brain:
Although he has passed his childhood (the age at which he learned to speak) can take advantage of learning pathways that are activated when you learned your first language, using psychological tricks and imagination to their advantage. The psychological trick feature of this method is "learn to speak as you would a baby."
5. Remember your first lesson:
How can you take now, the way she learned to speak as a baby?
This form was different (in many respects) to the way they learned a second language, especially if you did in school. Our brain is very well designed to learn our first language in a particular way. It seems a contradiction that we try hard to learn other languages ​​without taking advantage of the pathways that are activated within us when we learn to speak first.
Examine the elements of learning a second language in school. How much use the way you learn to talk? Did you learn to spell words before they learn to say them? Did you have a large vocabulary from the beginning? Are you worried pronounce each word correctly if you served in any case to get what you needed? ¿Memorize the meaning of words that would not use or need immediately? Did you learn the rules of grammar before you use them? No.
Remember how boring it was hard and learn a second language in school? Would you like to learn the next without books, reading, writing, grammar rules, memorizing endless lists or exams? Perhaps this approach is a response to your wishes.
6. First, the imitation
Since he can not return to the past, and never will have one or two years of age, can not play exactly the way you learned to speak. Still, it can imitate.
This method takes advantage of the psychological evidence that each experience of our lives unconsciously stored somewhere in the brain. Some can only be brought to light under hypnosis. What you want to remember are the internal methods of learning that used to learn their mother tongue.
7. A psychological method:
This method uses the learning pathways that are activated in your brain when you learned to speak, and retrieve them for help to acquire another language. This learning capacity has a physiological basis in our genetic makeup, developed over millions of years of natural selection that gave some primates the ability to acquire language.
8. One thing to remember:
You may be surprised to discover that when he learned to speak while I was learning how not to talk. When people around him respond positively to certain sounds that you did and not others, reinforcing acceptable noise in your mind. I was learning what had to say. Of all the random sounds that emitted as a baby, learned to distinguish those that were not acceptable or perhaps simply useless. Now in the new language, learn to say things or make sounds that you have listed as unacceptable or useless.
For starters, it will help you acknowledge that you have to forget it has established taboos against certain sounds.
It's like the ridges and grooves of a record. Their shapes are inconsistent, and the turntable needle up and down in response to variations in height or depth. Sounds like you learned what not to do when he learned to speak, you now have to dust off and use the sounds that once categorized as unproductive or incorrect.
9. Pronunciation. Start like a baby:
To begin to unlearn what sounds you can not say, start by making all kinds of random noises with his mouth. Include also those who considered rude, crude, bizarre or unpleasant (such as belching, popping, gurgling, squealing and grunting).
10. Take the time to shower:
When you start this exercise, you may feel embarrassed. It is logical, since it is exercising a learned behavior (in childhood, unconsciously and intuitively) that is unacceptable. The solution to this problem is, at first, solo practice (eg in the shower or in a remote location) to be able to make these sounds with others nearby.
11. Sociolinguistic function of laughter:
When practicing these sounds, you might get a laugh. this is an important indicator. Sociologists have discovered that laughter is a behavior that reduces social tension. Their laughter and their laughter is the means of reducing their disgrace. They are also a sociological indicator that reveals his embarrassment.
12. Do not give importance to make funny noises:
Keep practicing until it just does not feel like laughing. Then start practicing with a trusted friend, until you need not laugh. Finally, you can try with an acquaintance or a colleague who is not so close. You may have to explain why he does these noises, since that person will be surprised that the sounds coming out of his mouth does not make any sense. It aims to be castrated to emit strange sounds without feeling embarrassed.
It will be a surprise to discover that you are physically able to speak in any human language, and emit all the sounds of any of them.
Any barrier to pronunciation that believes it is more psychological than physiological, so pay attention to the psychology of language learning, as in this method.
13. It intends to acquire an extensive vocabulary:
Remember that fluency does not imply the same level of understanding and practice you have in your language. Fluency means the ability to operate, communicate and function socially in a language.
His goal, in these three months, must be a vocabulary of only three hundred words, but words that are useful every day, to be understood and get what you need. What you need is an operational flow, not a large vocabulary but impractical.
14. Maximum five, minimum daily word:
Put the goal of learning one word at least daily for ninety days. Without letting either one. Devoting at least five minutes a day to the new language does not seem to be difficult. The biggest obstacle is not to forget his intention not to let a day pass without learning a new word
The limit of words to be learned in a day is five. At first, be tempted to learn long lists of vocabulary. As the months go past, no longer so sure. Right now is when you have made the firm intention to learn at least a daily word.
15. Choose the vocabulary to be used immediately:
When he learned to speak, the words were existential. The learned to use them, not to memorize them. Choose each day to learn a word according to the business carried out at the time. For example, thirsty, your goal is to learn to say "I want water." Two words. You can increase the number three also learning to say "give me water."
The next day when you may need salt at the table. Well! You know three words: give me love, water. Use you already know and learn how to say "I want salt" and "give salt". Note that the second day only learned one word, but has also learned to use in the context of already knew.
Practice words and phrases you have learned in previous days. Do not let you forget. When choosing a new word, always keep in mind that the goal is the fluidity. Learn how to use them and to operate them.
16. The basic vocabulary of every day:
The mistakenly sometimes called "home vocabulary" is a list of about two or three hundred words that are used to eighty or ninety percent of our daily conversations, excluding all professional or specialized words that are commonly used for all society.
If you choose this type of everyday words "current" (existential), after three months his vocabulary is pretty close to "home vocabulary" of that language.
17. Maximum 15, minimum 5 minutes a day:
At any point of intensive learning of a subject, ninety percent of our ability to concentrate is condensed in the first five minutes. If you take the most effective use of their time and ability to learn, take only those five minutes a new language every day.
You can do this a second time, and occasionally a third in the same day, if you feel like. This is not necessary, although it is essential to devote at least five consecutive minutes each day.
18. Do not read books or take notes:
Remember how he learned to speak. It started with a book. I could not read or write, so I could hardly use these skills to learn to speak. Neither the need to become fluent in a second language. In the first three months, reading and taking notes can be an obstacle to achieving fluency. Do not write new words to learn. Burn should focus on your mind, not on paper. It's like learning to multiply and divide before relying on support from a calculator. Write the new words, this method makes it less hard to be saved.
The best strategy is to wait until after the first three months before attempting any reading or writing in the new language. By then, you'll find a series of fun facts and pleasant, and Spanish, he learned to write and what you thought it was "an implement," became "a pear". These things are not going to prevent the realization of the flow in the first three months.
19. Do not learn grammar rules, feel it:
When he learned to speak (with a year or two), assimilated it was right to say "I go," and "he goes." On the basis of trials and corrections (by their elders) learned that it was wrong to say "he go." I was not learning grammar rules, but he corrected while practicing.
Many years later, studied the formal rules of grammar for the conjugation of the verb "go". But long before, had the impression that it was incorrect to say "he go." In this method, the goal is to remember that feeling and use it effectively on learning another language.
Every time you learn a new word should be used in many contexts as possible. So start to learn grammar unconsciously. As described above, you can organize meetings at which you play the role of a boy who "correct their elders." His goal is to memorize what sounds good. What "sounds good" is as correct grammar.
20. Remember that the tone also states:
In European languages, the phrase "That's exactly" has a different meaning to "That's exactly" (capital letters are used to indicate the part that is emphasized). In European languages, we use the pitch to vary the implications of our words.
In Akan, by contrast, the language can be changed by a variation in tone. "WO ko" means "you go", while "KO wo" means "he goes" With this in mind, whatever language you choose to learn by this method, be receptive to the use of cadences, and not be surprised that they are used very differently than their mother tongue.
21 Use your vocabulary, however limited, in many ways:
Although it will study the grammar rules consciously try to explore how words change in different contexts, and Spanish, "go" changes to "go" when used with "he." Its aim is to use grammar, learn what sounds good, not rules.
22. Look for three to five informants or teachers:
In his daily rounds, there will be people you see every day or very often. Maybe at home, at school, at work or resting place. When you get to know and count on your friendship, ask anyone to be your teacher in the local language. You'll find that most people are pleased to be asked, especially if not time consuming.
23. Train your reporters / teachers:
Remember that going to help you probably have the same status that you or your subordinates are (a waiter or chef can be an excellent choice if that is your native language). It will cost you treat him like a baby, so avoid to think that they are doing. No need to say what he thinks, just give them simple instructions on how you want to help.
Tell your informant / teacher who only wants to teach you a word a day. Insist on it with those who want to teach a long list on the first day.
24. Give them the last word:
The key to this method is to train teachers / informants to have the last word. Must repeat every word you learn. This grant requires discipline.
When you learn a word, be prepared to repeat it to his teacher. Master the urge to do, and train their teachers to always say the word (or phrase, when you reach that point) after you. Informants may cost them a while to assimilate the basic rules you need.
25. Having the last word is too comfortable:
There is something disturbing about the last word left his teacher. It may not be obvious at first, but you will have a strong desire to say the word after him. If you do, your mind will feel comfortable and experience a sense of completion and fulfillment.
This feeling of satisfaction is an obstacle to deeper learning of the word. Avoid it. In fact, this method takes advantage of the feeling of discomfort you experience when it was not you who spoke last.
26. Make sure your teacher feel socially comfortable:
Make sure your teacher does not suspect, but when you repeat words or phrases that you say, imagine a baby who corrected their elders (parents, siblings, neighbors, anyone who did when I was learning to speak). He is correcting, but do not want your informant to be embarrassed about it, since it does not want to contribute to its "ridiculed" to correct him.
All that his informant / teacher should know is that you want to repeat each word or phrase after you say it. What you think is your problem or concern you. This is a psychological method of learning a language, so what happens to your mind is part of the system.
27. Use laughter to give encouragement:
Another thing that may initially look like a problem, but help can make is laughter. Often, people will laugh when you start talking in their language. You are used to consider these laughter as a sign of contempt, and not to be ridiculous. Do not believe so.
As a baby, people who loved him laugh made them very happy because anything you try. In most cultures, the laughter you hear when you try to talk are based on the joy, not contempt.
28. You can interpret the laughter as you want:
Since you are not obliged to believe that people are laughing at you when you try to talk, tell yourself (a positive affirmation builds self-esteem) that laughter you hear is from someone who loves you, and are glad to see that attempts learn their language. At first you can not believe when you tell yourself that laughter is to encourage you. No matter, do by telling. If repeated many times, will become true.
29. When you forget to learn a word a day:
What to do when one day discover that yesterday did not learn even a word?
This method can cause a slight emotional depression. For an adult, it is difficult to bear to be corrected every day, even though they do not know that you feel that you corrected. As in Alcoholics Anonymous, remember: "One day after another." You can not return to yesterday. We agree that we are at today, and can learn a word, just this once.
30. Your emotional state is part of this method:
During the day, your emotions wax and wane. While using this method, your average will be slightly below the line of comfort. Remember that triggered a situation which continually correct him, and unconsciously may feel depressed by this process. Forget the word to learn every day is the way in which your subconscious tries to cope with the mild depression that is part of the method.
When you discover that one day you forgot to learn the word used, you know that the method is working. A council of Alcoholics Anonymous: You can not go back and change yesterday, just started today. Learn a new word today.
31. What to do at the end of three months?
The three months that have to try this method will pass faster than you think. In the end, not only will flow, but will have learned the method to acquire and will have gained the ability to ask them to help build vocabulary in their own language. It may even happen that occasionally dream in this new language.
What to do when they finish the three months? You can continue in the same way, slowly learning more vocabulary work? Or maybe you are ready to try to read and write the words you already know.

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