Fluent Forever

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The ultimate rapid language learning guide For those who ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently He didn t learn them in school who does rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he s discovered The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory there are just too many words and too many rules For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, and as a result, fluency can seem out of reach Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head on With empathy for the language challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up Starting with pronunciation, you ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds You ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors Next, you ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign languageAnd with the help of sophisticated spaced repetition techniques, you ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day Soon, you ll gain the ability to learn grammar and difficult abstract words without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day. New Download [ Fluent Forever ] By [ Gabriel Wyner ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Arabic is my native language I taught myself English, French, Hebrew, Syriac, Italian and Greek I read the book and I find his ideas matching well with all I have knowing all these years and it even adds to me I am now jotting down some of his ideas in my prayer journal as...I am amazed that so much first hand insight into language acquisition got packed into this tiny book There is a lot on the author s tools he developed And while I get the why s, I simply don t like other people s tools Besides, I am not a fan of flashcards, they don t work for me and they bore me and, as a result, I hate them passionately Still, there are lots of other things to internalise and take out Overall this is a pretty amazing book for polyglots and language buffs alike.Q Language l I am amazed that so much first hand insight into language acquisition got packed into this tiny book There is a lot on the author s tools he developed And while I get the why s, I simply don t like other people s tools Besides, I am not a fan of flashcards, they don t work for me and they bore me and, as a result, I hate them passionately Still, there are lots of other things to internalise and take out Overall this is a pretty amazing book for polyglots and language buffs alike.Q Language learning is a sport I say this as someone who is in no way qualified to speak about sports I joined the fencing team in high school in order to get out of gym class Still, stabbing friends with pointy metal objects resembles language learningthan you might think Your goal in fencing...I ve never given much thought to language learning even though I took up some foreign languages as a hobby.Gabriel breaks down the technicalities of effective language learning and shares some tips on what s needed to achieve long lasting fluency A Learn pronunciation firstI wholeheartedly agree with this Proper pronunciation and accent is the difference in being ripped off and getting a nice bargain at the local markets this also applies to relationships with the locals B Study less, revi I ve ...Fluent forever More like the Holy Bible of language learning Anyone who has been struggling to learn a new language READ THIS BOOK IT IS SO INFORMATIVE AND EASILY COMPREHENSIBLE AND HELPFUL Everything you need to know is packed into this short little book Backed with Wyner s real life experiences and scientific experiments this book pr...This is an excellent book about learning a foreign language as efficiently as possible The author, Gabriel Wyner, has learned six languages to help himself in his career as an opera singer The book is geared toward learning how to think in the target language It is jam packed with practical advice, on all aspects of learning a language, starting with pronunciation, then learning grammar, memorizing words, listening skills, and writing.Wyner has excellent advice about making flash cards, and a This is an excellent book about learning a foreign language as efficiently as possible The author, Gabriel Wyner, has learned six languages to help himself in his career as an opera singer The book is geared toward learning how to think in the target language It is jam packed with practical advice, on all aspects of learning a language, starting with pronunciation, then learning grammar, memorizing words, listening skills, and writing.Wyner ha...In high school I ripped my French book in half Well, I tried to The pages came out easily enough, but the hardbound cover was near impossible I sure tried, though If you are like me, you can probably relate to the feeling of that wall in learning a foreign language For me, it was right around conjugating time, and it wasn t pretty.FLUENT FOREVER is all about making learning foreign languages fun, easy, and hopefully permanent Some of the first things author Gabriel Wyner promotes are nev In high school I ripped my French book in half Well, I tried to The pages came out easily enough, but the hardbound cover was near impossible I sure tried, though If you are like me, you can probably relate to the feeling of that wall in learning a foreign language For me, it was right around conjugating time, and it wasn t pretty.FLUENT FOREVER is all about making learning foreign languages fun, easy, and hopefully permanent Some of the first things author Gabriel Wyner promotes are never to translate foreign words and to throw out actually he says burn books with English y pronunciation guides e.g bawn JURE Wyner encourages fun, laziness, and multi sensory involvement He lists a TON of free resources online to build your learning repertoire He talks about using spaced repetition systems SRSs and the IPA international phonetic alphabet And you kno...Just like Gabriel Wyner, I m a self directed language learner and sometimes lacking in modesty I didn t learn much reading this book About half the content is about SRS, so if you already know use it, this might serve as a review, at best Now I ll admit most people don t know Anki, so it s definitely a good thing to write about it There wasn t really a need to duplicate Wikipedia s article about SRS though Same goes for the IPA We get his condescendence The IPA is usually full of Just like Gabriel Wyner, I m a self directed language learner and sometimes lacking in modesty I didn t learn much reading this book About half the content is about SRS, so if you already know use it, this might...Rating this is a bit like rating a cookbook how do you know it s a five star book until you ve tried at least a statistically significant portion of the recipes But even though I haven t tried learning a language using his approach though I intend to , I ve ha...I recommend this book to anyone who is searching for effective tools, approaches and resources for learning languages.I m no stranger to learning languages, being native in Russian and Ukrainian as most people in my country are , fluent in English and intermediate in Spanish and French I even studied Japanese for a few years as kid, though most of it is now forgotten So, as you might imagine, having started learning my third language English at the age of 5, over the years I have developed I recommend this book to anyone who is searching for effective tools, approaches and resources for learning languages.I m no stranger to learning languages, being native in Russian and Ukrainian as most peo...Great for the motivated, self directed learner Also needs some time or one s own computer to be efficient Overall, a good mix of theory and practice Lighter than similar books on motivation Now, onward to implement this

Fluent Forever
  • English
  • 23 February 2017
  • Paperback
  • 326 pages
  • Gabriel Wyner
  • Fluent Forever