Comments on: Help! I’ve Reached the Foreign Language Flatlands! http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/09/11/help-i%e2%80%99ve-reached-the-foreign-language-flatlands/ Stories and Resources from Idealists in Latin America Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Weird Words and How to Learn Them | La Vida Idealist http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/09/11/help-i%e2%80%99ve-reached-the-foreign-language-flatlands/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Weird Words and How to Learn Them | La Vida Idealist Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:19:16 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=1232#comment-344 [...] musings on learning another language, check out these posts from other La Vida Idealist bloggers: “Help! I’ve Reached the Foreign Language Flatlands!”; “What Your Language Teacher Doesn’t Want You to Know”; “Could You Pick Up [...] [...] musings on learning another language, check out these posts from other La Vida Idealist bloggers: “Help! I’ve Reached the Foreign Language Flatlands!”; “What Your Language Teacher Doesn’t Want You to Know”; “Could You Pick Up [...]

]]> By: What Your Language Teacher Doesn’t Want You to Know | La Vida Idealist http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/09/11/help-i%e2%80%99ve-reached-the-foreign-language-flatlands/comment-page-1/#comment-236 What Your Language Teacher Doesn’t Want You to Know | La Vida Idealist Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:48:58 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=1232#comment-236 [...] ago Lisa Hetzel, one of my fellow contributing bloggers, wrote a very telling post titled “Help! I’ve Reached the Foreign Lanuage Flatlands!” I found Lisa’s entry honest and helpful in terms of aiding me with my own opinions about [...] [...] ago Lisa Hetzel, one of my fellow contributing bloggers, wrote a very telling post titled “Help! I’ve Reached the Foreign Lanuage Flatlands!” I found Lisa’s entry honest and helpful in terms of aiding me with my own opinions about [...]

]]> By: Dan http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/09/11/help-i%e2%80%99ve-reached-the-foreign-language-flatlands/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Dan Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:19:23 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=1232#comment-99 Try this site: http://www.lenguajero.com/ Free to use, allows people to connect and video/audio chat with native speakers. I just got an account, but it seems really cool. Try this site: http://www.lenguajero.com/

Free to use, allows people to connect and video/audio chat with native speakers. I just got an account, but it seems really cool.

]]> By: Francis http://lavidaidealist.org/2009/09/11/help-i%e2%80%99ve-reached-the-foreign-language-flatlands/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Francis Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:44:17 +0000 http://lavidaidealist.org/?p=1232#comment-97 Hi. I'm from Venezuelan. This year has meant a year of big challenges to me. At the end of 2008 I finished the university, but I still felt unconfident with my knowledge of English Language (I had made several courses in my country). My parents gift me the chance to live an international experience in US, where I took short language courses. That kind of experience meant a lot for me. Because I learned that with our own mistakes we are learning, and I think, we have to learn to enjoy that process. To know another language is wonderful, you have the opportunity to put out borders between cultures. For my culture, to know English is very important, and it is no so simple to learn for all the people. The pronunciation and listening is dificult and different! But I had the opportunity to meet several people in my experience for US and I discovered that Spanish is no as simple as English is. Perhaps I could understand your point of view, but it is OK, we have to enjoy and feel patience with ourselves during the process and don’t feel afraid to make mistake. It had been interesting to find your article in these days. Because at the beginning of this year I purposed improve my English, but now, I found an international internship in Brasil, and I have to learn the Portuguese, that several people say that is similar of Spanish, but I think is no so similar as the people think. But one of the key I think it helps in the learning process of a language is using the learning method how we learn our native language, I mean for example a Spanish-baby learned to speak first, and several years after learn to read and write. Answering your question, for my basic-intermediate English the tools what helped me grow have been listening and watching the TV series as Friends. And listening my favorite music in the non-native tongue, for example the songs from Ronan Keating or Jason Mraz singers I found the lyrics of their songs, and when I listening I try to memorize the lyrics or write it in a peace of paper and later I checked how correct I listened. The tool that you have shared with us about read newspapers, I really appreciated to know about it, thank you. Hi. I’m from Venezuelan. This year has meant a year of big challenges to me. At the end of 2008 I finished the university, but I still felt unconfident with my knowledge of English Language (I had made several courses in my country). My parents gift me the chance to live an international experience in US, where I took short language courses. That kind of experience meant a lot for me. Because I learned that with our own mistakes we are learning, and I think, we have to learn to enjoy that process. To know another language is wonderful, you have the opportunity to put out borders between cultures. For my culture, to know English is very important, and it is no so simple to learn for all the people. The pronunciation and listening is dificult and different! But I had the opportunity to meet several people in my experience for US and I discovered that Spanish is no as simple as English is. Perhaps I could understand your point of view, but it is OK, we have to enjoy and feel patience with ourselves during the process and don’t feel afraid to make mistake.
It had been interesting to find your article in these days. Because at the beginning of this year I purposed improve my English, but now, I found an international internship in Brasil, and I have to learn the Portuguese, that several people say that is similar of Spanish, but I think is no so similar as the people think. But one of the key I think it helps in the learning process of a language is using the learning method how we learn our native language, I mean for example a Spanish-baby learned to speak first, and several years after learn to read and write.
Answering your question, for my basic-intermediate English the tools what helped me grow have been listening and watching the TV series as Friends. And listening my favorite music in the non-native tongue, for example the songs from Ronan Keating or Jason Mraz singers I found the lyrics of their songs, and when I listening I try to memorize the lyrics or write it in a peace of paper and later I checked how correct I listened.
The tool that you have shared with us about read newspapers, I really appreciated to know about it, thank you.

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