5. LEARNING A LANGUAGE

Learning a language is not always easy. While some may achieve success quite smoothly, others may not be so lucky. Try as they might, they stumble and do not sound coherent when the need to use language arises or they may not manage to speak it as well as they hope to.

Depending on the learner’s facility with the language, there may be quite different routes I can follow. The absolute beginner would need a teacher more than someone who is more familiar with the language. For the later, I choose self-study because it was a possible option, considering the time and cost involved in attending classes. In fact, a current theory in English language teaching suggests ways of equipping the students as me with the tools to develop my English skills on my own.

There is much can I do to help myself. I can devices strategies to help myself acquire the vocabulary of the language. Keeping a notebook of unfamiliar words and looking through it when one is in the bus or at other time is one way. I choose this method for memorising vocabulary that works for me. For instance, I can record onto a audio those sentences that have new words after a lesson and listen to them in the way I learns my target language.

In addition, I also watching television programmes in the target language and learning through songs, besides reading books and novel. A dictionary would come in useful if I stumbles upon an unknown word. Nowdays, there are even electronic dictionaries which provide spoken models of how a word is prounounced.

Lastly,who is learning a foreign language definitely needs more guidance than a person who already uses the target language in their community. It is their second language, not a foreign one. Patience and dedication, it is likely that one will succeed developing fluency and accuracy in the target language.