Fluent Forever-How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
A book by Gariel Wyner
I requested a copy of this book about the time I was thinking it useful to learn to speak German. While my motivation for learning that language is no longer pressing, I’d still like to carve time into my busy schedule to learn to speak and understand the Spanish language; living on the Western side of the United States this could prove very useful.
Initially I found it difficult to imagine there would be enough worthy and useful information on the topic to write a book on it, let alone a book that would be interesting. Something in the introduction of this book caused my curiosity to peak enough to review the book for myself.
I’m pleased to announce I was very pleasantly surprised as I began reading this book. Due to the nature of the topic, (not generally an exciting one), I found the book to be refreshingly interesting, informative and full of very practical and useful tips and advice. My confidence was greatly enhanced by the fact the author, himself, used and applied what he teaches in order to learn the languages he was desiring to speak and understand; a fact established through his sharing of personal experiences.
The book is laid out with highlighted “key points”, diagrams, and other useful pointers that are easy to locate. The chapters are broken down into subsections for easy reference. At the back of the book is an index guide to help the reader quickly locate specific information.
This book is a great reference I plan to keep handy in my personal library as I move forward on my goal of learning to speak Spanish.
“I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.”
“Fluent Forever”
24 Tuesday Feb 2015
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conorbohannon said:
Hi Sis, One of the best ways to learn Spanish or any other language you would like for free is at duolingo.com or memrise.com. As you know I’ve studied a LOT of different languages in my lifetime and have learned a few lessons (painfully I might add) along the way. Probably the most important lesson I’ve learned is the hardest part of learning a second language is learning HOW to learn a language!
Second, your first second language is ALWAYS the hardest one to learn.
This being the case it is a very good idea to pick the easiest language possible to learn for your first second language. As far as natural languages go Spanish is one of the easier languages to learn so it is a decent choice.
My suggestion if you would like to learn Spanish would be to learn Esperanto first. Although this might sound weird bear with me.
A great many studies have been done by universities and other schools around the World and all have determined the propaedeutic value of learning Esperanto first as a springboard to much greater success at later learning a second national language such as Spanish. Instead of trying to explain this I’m posting a couple of links where you can learn a little more of what I’m talking about. http://languagemagazine.com/internetedition/langmag_pages/Esperanto_Apr09.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaedeutic_value_of_Esperanto or just Google: propaedeutic effect of Esperanto This will bring up a whole lot of links on the topic. Anyway if you have any questions just message me on Facebook. I’m always happy to hear from you on any topic at all!
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gdhayes2014 said:
Thank you, this is very helpful, both to me and anyone else interested in the topic.
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