Speak a Foreign Language Like a Native
If you’re reading this post, chances are your English is already pretty darn good. Fluent, in fact, or thereabouts.
English is one of the most widely spoken languages, with over 380 million native speakers. If that sounds like a lot, consider this: a further 700 million people speak English as a foreign language.
Did you know that most shows Netflix creates in-house come pre-loaded with audio in other languages?
Me neither. Not to mention a whole bunch of other shows. Until I went exploring one day and discovered a whole wealth of language gold hidden right there, in my Netflix account.
So then I started to click around. I wonder if this is in French? What about this? What about this?
Watching movies in your target language is a great way to supplement your language learning. It helps you master the first stage of learning a language by ear: your capacity to hear and understand the sounds being made.
Plus, you don’t have to feel guilty about spending time on the couch watching TV!
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If you’re a regular to our blog, you know we love languages. And we’re not alone.
More than half of high school students in Europe study two or more languages.
Statistics on world figures are a little hazier, but it’s estimated that 43% of the world’s population are bilingual, 13% are trilingual, a narrow 3% are multilingual (four languages) and a tiny slither (1%) are classed as Polyglots (five or more languages.)
But why do people learn new languages in the first place?
According to the hundreds of people that took our survey… Spanish isn’t just hard to learn.
Spanish is the hardest language to learn.
I know they say that French is the language of love – but really, any language is the language of love if you’re speaking it to someone you like.
Whether you’re new to a language or feel competent in it, flirting for the first time in a new language can feel a bit daunting.
So, in true Mimic Method style, we’ve done the hard part for you. Here are 10 phrases in each of the languages we teach that’ll help you chat with that lovely man or woman sitting across from you in the cafe…
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“Why should I bother learning a second language when everyone already speaks English?”
We get this question all the time.
And while it’s true that over 330 million people speak English as their first language, this is actually relatively small when compared with the 982 million native Chinese speakers.
However, once you’ve factored in the 1.5 billion people that speak English as a second language… it’s easy to see where the question comes from.
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