How to Learn Foreign Language Easily

Discover how to learn a foreign language the easy way

Do you want to talk with people around the world? Are you interested in foreign cultures? Speaking foreign languages is a great thing - only if it wouldn’t be so exhausting and wouldn’t take such a long time to learn them.

Traditionally people have learned foreign languages the hard way. People have learned new foreign words by repetition - by saying the word in their own language and the foreign language time and time and time and time again. It’s boring and takes too much time.

It also limits you to learning certain number of words per day because you can’t overload your mind with too much information without taking a break.

Fortunately you can improve on this tedious way of learning words in foreign languages by using memory techniques. They take the drudgery and hard work away from learning foreign languages and make it more exciting instead.

Eliminate the effort it takes to learn a foreign language

Foreign languages are the ideal subject area for the use of memory techniques. Learning vocabulary is often a matter of associating a meaningless collection of syllables with a word in your own language.

Without memory techniques it takes a lot of effort and time to learn vocabulary but with memory techniques you can remember foreign words in a much easier way.

Not only it is an easier way. It is also more fun and interesting. Learning foreign words with memory techniques is exciting and makes you want to learn more. You are also not limited to the number of words you can learn in one day because you aren’t exerting your mind with them.

The secret technique to remember foreign words

One of the secrets on how to remember words in foreign languages is to substitute the foreign word with an english word or phrase that sounds similar to the foreign word. Then you associate this similar sounding word or phrase to the actual meaning of the word.

Here’s the illustration of this process:

You want to memorize Portuguese word for clam (the delicacy you eat at restaurant). Portuguese word for clam is "amejues", pronounced "ah-mezz-you-iz".

Now picture in your mind a gigantic clam approaching you, all drippy and dirty, and you say to it, "What a mess you is!".

Now each time you will think of a word clam in English you will remember the ridiculous association that you made in your mind and will remember the foreign word.

Eliminate the need for boring repetition

This was just an example. You will need to come up with your own associations for each foreign word that you learn.

By making these association you are making your mind concentrate on the foreign word and that way retaining information much better.

When you apply this memory technique to learn foreign words, you are remembering the word the first time you hear it. This memory technique lets you eliminate the need for constant repetition of the word to make sure that it stays in your mind.

This technique can be applied to any word in any foreign language. There are always words and phrases in English that you can come up with to substitute the pronunciation of the foreign word.

Learn a foreign language in a breeze

You can be very successful with this memory technique and learn hundreds of new words every day. Memory expert Harry Lorayne learned the phone book of New York in a few days with a similar memory technique. He could have learned basics of new foreign language instead of New York phone book.

There are memory techniques that you can apply to quickly learn grammar of foreign language and expressions like "What time is it?" or "How are you?".

With memory techniques you can learn all these expressions the first time you hear them and remember them almost forever. Of course it will seem a little hard to apply these techniques in the beginning but when you practice them, they will become like a second nature to you.