Between you and your goal of achieving conversational fluency in a language, there is a jungle.
This jungle is vast, dark and mysterious. There are many ways to get lost in this jungle.
Most language learners who go in to the jungle never make it to the other side, because they take the wrong paths.
The traditional paths of learning by eye dead end before you reach conversational fluency.
But the path that we’ve charted, The Mimic Method Path, does take you to conversational fluency.
If you take it all the way, you will be able to truly connect with the native speakers on their level, in their slang, with their accent.
I wrote a post on how The Mimic Method makes more sense than the traditional approach from a logical perspective.
But in the end it doesn’t matter how much logical sense this post makes. What really matters is what’s proven to work.
That’s why we started our new case study – two monolingual twin brothers competing to learn Spanish before they turn 30 (read intro post here).
In this post, I explain what they did for their first step on their path to Spanish fluency – Learning the 39 Elemental Sounds of Spanish.
There are three steps to learning sounds in a foreign language:
- Learn how to see them
- Learn how to hear them
- Learn how to pronounce them
Let’s go over each:
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