How to master a foreign language
Consider that for some reason you decide to learn a new language.Now there could be a number of good reasons why you might want to do such a thing.Maybe you are interested in a particular country or culture,and believe that learning the local dialect will aid your understanding of the people.Or (which is more likely) maybe you are just someone who is planning a holiday abroad,and doesn’t want to be constantly embarrassed because you have to spend minutes at a time flicking through a phrase book whenever you need to know the price of an item in a shop,or a drink in the bar.
Well whatever your reason for wanting to learn a new language,this section of the site promises to outline a system that with a little practice (and I do mean a little),will enable you to master the basics of any given language that you choose,in as short a period of time as 10 days.Yes that’s what I said – just 10 days.
Before outlining the details of this system,I would just like to mention that if you were to use conventional techniques in order to master a new language,then you would probably be expected to spend between 1-3 years before you would be considered to be truly proficient in that language.The method that I shall now outline requires no such unnecessary time wasting.
The method
The first step is to transform a foreign word into a form that is immediately understandable,and thus memorable.For example,let us take the Spanish word for head ‘cabeza.’ Now at first glance this word might appear (at least to someone who is unfamiliar with the Spanish language),to be nothing more than a random collection of syllables.As a result of this,it is difficult to visualise.Just like a random series of numbers to someone who is unfamiliar with the peg system.
So if you wanted to commit this particular word to your long-term memory,in a way that will make it easy to recall,then the first thing that you would need to do,would be to transform it into a form that you can immediately visualise.
You could accomplish this task by simply breaking down the word ‘cabeza’ into the three distinct sounds,cab-beez-a.Now I feel sure that most people will have little difficulty in visualising a cab,or a bee,or even a bale of hay!