Speak a Foreign Language Like a Native
Hello everyone!
I’m back again to share more of my experiences with you all. After my success with The Mimic Method’s German Elemental Sounds course, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and learn a completely new language: Spanish.
I had little to no exposure to the Spanish sounds before I started (minus a few songs) so I was starting from scratch in a way that I hadn’t with German.
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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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It’s a familiar situation for many language learners.
Maybe you learned a language at school that slowly ebbed out of your mind. Maybe you’ve picked up a language as an adult and found yourself stranded on a language plateau – feeling uninspired and unmotivated to move forward. However you arrive at a language rut, understand that it’s a place that most language learners have been at some point in their journeys.
In this post, we’ll look at 4 ways to kickstart your progress back into language.
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Hi there, my name’s Sam and I am a 27-year-old designer, writer, foodie and language lover. I recently purchased The Mimic Method’s German Elemental Sounds course and wanted to share my experience with you all.
Where it all began…
Like most teenagers in England, I was forced to study two languages at school and I chose French and German.
I was terrible!
I used to hide at the back of the class and dread the day the teacher would point me out and ask me to say something.
After 4 years of study, I was pleasantly surprised to receive decent grades but had no real useable knowledge or language skills. I wasn’t even able to order food in Germany on our school trip… embarrassing!
After leaving college and heading to university I gave German another try as I was offered a free language course alongside my degree. After two weeks I had given up and resigned myself to that fact I would never be able to speak a second language.
That all changed when I decided to book a surprise trip to Rome for my fiancèe’s birthday and I thought it would be an even better surprise if I could speak Italian when we went. I wasn’t aiming for anything fancy, just to be able to order a coffee. At the time I worked away from home so filled my hour drive to work with Italian podcasts, hoping that if I sat talking to myself for long enough something would stick…and it did!
I checked in to the hotel, ordered food and even gave Italian’s directions to the Vatican. A new world of possibilities opened to me and I have never looked back.
Five years on and I have now reached an intermediate level in Italian and dabbled in French, Icelandic and now German.
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Have you ever listened to native speakers of your target language and thought “how are they making that sound!?”
You’re not alone.
One of the most challenging parts of learning a new language is learning the sounds that don’t exist in the language(s) you already know.
That’s why we’ve created and premium courses to help you master all of the sounds in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Mandarin, and English.
But I know some of you out there will want to learn a new sound in a language we don’t offer yet.
So in this article, I’ll go behind the scenes to show you how to do it on your own.
Warning, this can get a little technical and requires some understanding of phonetics. So if you’re a beginner, stick to our and premium courses.
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Language is everywhere. We hear it all the time in conversations, in the streets, on TV. We read it all the time on street signs, books, computers. We even have language going on non-stop in our heads all day.
As fish are to water, we humans are to language.
As such, there are certain myths about language that most people never take time to consider. In this post, I would like to debunk nine of these myths…
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