How To-20: How to Learn a New Language Fast

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When you're on vacation and see some people able to speak three, four languages, well you're first amazed, wondering how they manage doing that! Well I tell you here some tips on how to do the same easily.

Steps

1. 'Learn' from 10 to 20 words a day (10 if you're beginning, 20 when you're medium, and upper if you're high). Keep saying these same words, so that you won't get the chance to forget them.
   
2. Always have a dictionary with you.
   
3. Learn whole sentences, which might be used on a day-to-day basis. It helps you two-fold. One you will never get stuck speaking the language, and the more you learn the better.
   
4. Work on their pronounciation. At first, you might make mistakes but after five or six times, you'll see that you manage speaking this sentence very fast. isn't that crazy?
   
5. Keep practicing it, even though you are all alone. Read more books about the country, presidents if any. That will also help you. If not now, then later...
   
6. Try watching movies/serials/news in that language. While listening to it, try and identify words that you already know. Watching movies help, because you might learn some words based on the context.

Tips

• Don't try to speak very fast and very good at first... you won't manage! Be a little patient!!!

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