Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06X1GK1D1 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 326 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Starting with pronunciation, you'll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, making fluency seem out of reach. 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.. Memory is the greatest challenge to learning a foreign language; there are just too many words and too many rules. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day
He has very good videos on the mechanics of pronunciation available This review comes after I have finished the book as well as explored the author's website.The strong points: 1. an emphasis on starting off with correct pronunciation (he says otherwise you end up learning two languages rather than one). He has very good videos on the mechanics of pronunciation available. He also sells trainers for specific languages.2. The use of minimal pairs (two words like cat and cut that differ by only one sound). He has a way of using these to train you to actually hear the differences, which can be very tricky in some foreign languages. You have to hear the differences before yo. B.L. said Exceptionally thoughtful approach with a strong basis in research. There are a lot of books and web products lately that are designed to help anyone learn a language, even those of us who gave it a good try for several years in high school and barely came out of it knowing enough to ask how to find a toilet. I think the various methods are probably going to work best for different people, so I'm definitely not going to say anything like "This is the BEST method! Forget all that other stuff!" but I still say that this is an approach that's been carefully thought out, and planned, and the author clearly works extremely hard to make sure that he's explaining himself clear. "Shows how to make learning language fun and easy. Includes references to free resources online." according to Ryan J. Dejonghe. UPDATE: see the conversation in the comments for the author's response to my query on Duolingo. Thanks everyone for the feedback! I'm updating this to 5-stars. Terrific!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. S