Q&A for How to Learn a New Language Fast

That's a pretty good pace if you're trying to learn a new language. You should be able to acquire at least 20 words a day at that pace. Just make sure that you review the previous day's work with each new session.

Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, and all of those programs are all great supplemental tools. They'll help you sharpen your language skills and practice, but they aren't going to help you master the language on their own.

I think learning on your own is going to be exceptionally hard. Classes and tutors give you an opportunity to get immediate feedback and practice your verbal skills. Without any of that, it's going to be exceptionally hard to master the language.

You'll probably find that you won't forget French, especially if you review it periodically. There are many people who speak several languages.

The Nemo app is a very reliable language learning resource, I strongly encourage you to use it.

Learn new words everyday and focus. Complete language courses. Read books, magazines and newspapers to improve vocabulary. Write on your own and ask professionals or teachers to analyze and correct your mistakes. Learning the history of the language and meeting native speakers is also important.

There are so many factors involved in formulating an answer to that question, including your personal aptitude for language learning and the amount of time you're able to put toward learning the language every day/week. The short answer is that the more time you're able to invest in study and practice, the faster you'll achieve fluency.

Study and practice the words, download apps to help and watch movies in Russian, paying close attention to the sounds and pacing of the speakers.

Get involved with everything in your new language. Always bear in mind that most language learners do not have the chance to have a partner whose mother tongue is the language they are learning. Therefore, it is important to have an imaginary person with you with whom you can practice every day. This imaginary person will always be with you and can act as a good partner.

Websites/apps like Memrise have user-created courses that teach ASL, which instead of showing written questions show pictures with the questions. There will not be any sound questions. Of course, the best way is to find someone that also "speaks" ASL and interact with them for practice.

No, I would focus on one language at a time.

The app Duolingo has an option to turn off sounds and your microphone, which will remove any questions that involve them. This only leaves written questions left.

Have you tried searching for language exchanges in your local area? If you'd prefer to talk online, services like iTalki and Tandem are a great way to link up with language exchange partners fast.

You can speak and write it fluently (you don't have to pause and search for the right words very often), and you can understand what others are saying easily.

It depends. When kids are little, their brain has more plasticity, and so it is often easier for them to learn new languages. As humans, we are born with the innate skill to understand grammar, and so younger kids are even able to split words when listening to languages they have never heard of before. This is a skill that declines the older we get, and so it ends up being harder to learn languages the older you are. However, if we heard this language constantly when we were younger, or if we had even learned a little bit of it when we were at that young age, it would be easier to learn it in the future, regardless of age.

The fastest way to learn any language is to live among native speakers. See Method 1 above.

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? "Would you like to sleep with me tonight?" Voulez-vous du sex? "Would you like sex?"

There is no chance. It is not about luck; it is about how well you learn the language itself.

Duolingo is a great resource that teaches languages for free, but there are other options as well if you do a Google search. You can look at all of the options and determine which one best suits your needs.

If you are looking to improve on your conversational skills, try using a language exchange app. That way you can find someone to practice with you. You could try Italki, Tandem, Billingua, or my personal favorite, Ditsay.

It can be useful if you travel, or it can just be fun to learn just for the sake of learning it. For learning it you could look online, for example, Duolingo is a great app and has a variety of languages they teach. For quick and easy phrases you want to know you could use Google Translate. There is also a book called Complete Greek by Aristarhos Matsukas that you may find useful as it has quite good reviews.

It depends on how fast you want to learn. Twenty minutes a day is a good start, but longer periods will help you learn faster. The fastest way to learn a language is to live among native speakers.

If you can consistently spend 15 to 30 minutes a day studying a new language, it's a good start. However, at that rate, it may take years to become fluent.

Ask your family to immerse you. Spend time using only that language.

Reach out to speakers of that language for help. They'd probably be glad to help someone learn their language.

If you speak it a lot, you won’t forget it. Take a vacation to a country that speaks it.

Yes, practicing with non-native speakers can be beneficial, especially if they are quick to absorb new information.

Duolingo is perfect in that situation. It’s free, and comes in website and app form.

The best way is to immerse yourself in a culture where that language is spoken. If you can't do that, get training from a native (or even a non-native) speaker. If you can't do that, find audio or video recordings of the language being spoken, and copy them. If you can't do that, take a class or study a textbook.

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