Learn Foreign Language Center

If you are learning a foreign language, language lesson plans are necessary to keep you on the fast track to your success.

The good language lesson plans should not be 1) Complicated; 2) Time consuming; 3) Needing a lot of work.

A good plan should be 1) Easy to carry out; 2) Based on reasoning that convinces the learner; 3) Having quick and long-lasting effect.

Being able to speak a new language feels good. This is one of the reasons that people are keen to learn foreign languages. But a second thought of learning a large scale of vocabulary that consists of strange new words and pronunciations tends to scare people away.

“It is just not for me.” I have heard many people say that after they have learned a second language for a short period of time. Languages are made for human beings. Everybody with health listening and speaking ability is using their native languages freely all over the world.

If you can speak your own language, you can be enabled to learn another tongue. If you are not experiencing success in language learning, I can tell you that the problem is not about the one who learns it. It has everything to do the lesson plans.

Just think about the process that a baby learns his/her first language. There are no reasons that we as adults cannot learn foreign languages like that. Language learning is just a natural accumulating process. It is not required to work hard on separate words and sentences, neither to acquire listening and reading individually.

So what you are supposed to do is just to search for the right language lesson plans.

By: Hans Strahl

About the Author:

Learn Foreign Language

Jake B asked:

I’m an undergrad student and I’m in advanced spanish and will be fluent in about a year but I would like to learn other languages but I can’t take the all those classes at college. I was wondering what is the easiest and fastest way to learn a foreign Language and the best language program.

Learning Spanish Like Crazy

Kacey F asked:

I am doing a paper for my spanish class on how important the school systems make learning a foreign language in Kentucky. I am just curious to know how it goes in your school. In ours we are only required 2 years of spanish in High School to graduate.

Learning Spanish

Certain people are beginning to act like it is unconstitutional to speak any language but English in public in the United States. If we make English the official language, doesn’t that just mean that it’s the language that government business is conducted in? Does making English the official language mean people wouldn’t be allowed to speak other languages in public, even if they speak English fluently as well? Do you think as Anglophones we have some God-given right not to have to hear or read any language but our own in public, even when it has nothing whatsoever to do with governmental business, documents, or signage?

What’s the take on this in other countries where there is an official language? Do countries that choose an official language for government business also make it illegal for people to speak other languages in their homes, in privately owned businesses, or in public? Do they go so far as to force Korean or Indian grocers to sell goods with English names on the cans?
To Shadowhawk: Why do you feel it is rude for people speak in their native tongue with others who speak it at social functions? I’ve never understood this. Sometimes it is simply more natural and more practical to speak in your native tongue. I speak French fluently, but when I run into an American or Brit while in France, I revert to English. It just makes more sense. Why is that rude?
To EugeneP: I understand your frustration with illegal immigrants, but don’t you think you’re characterizing Mexican immigrants a bit unfairly? You see a handful of Mexican immigrants flying the Mexican flag and refusing to speak English during a protest on t.v., and you assume that all Mexicans hate America and refuse to speak English. But that’s ridiculous. You’re unfairly stereotyping an entire population based on the actions (often misquoted and misunderstood) of a few. Is that fair? Is it rational? Does that sort of thinking help us solve this problem at all?
To Allie: You don’t travel much, do you? Yes, actually, people go to Japan or China or Europe all the time and expect to be spoken to in English. American people, that is. Something like 50% of the business in Europe is conducting in Europe in countries where English is neither an official language nor a majority language. My ex-husband travels to China, Japan, Taiwan, and other Asian countries on a regular basis, and although he’s the only Anglophone there, everyone does business there in English when he’s around. Ask any European if you don’t believe me: when Americans travel to Europe, and even when they move there, they expect to be spoken to in English, and they often are.
To machiko_146: Who said anything about requiring Anglophones in the U.S. to speak other languages? Who said anything about requiring any language period? Your entire response is a logical fallacy: a straw man argument, to be exact. All I’m suggesting is that while immigrants should be encouraged, perhaps even required, to learn English, and should be assisted in doing so, “English only” is not and should not be a proposal to abolish speaking other languages in public. The people who think that speaking in Spanish or French or Arabic or Mandarin Chinese in public should be illegal apparently do not understand that “official language” does not mean “only language”.

By: Larousse

About the Author:

Language Learning Software

??? asked:

I want to major in foreign languages. I want to specialize in Japanese, Italian, Chinese, and Korean.

Can I use that and apply it in Forensics science or Business.

If so like what would be an example.

Other things I can use foreign languages for?
I want to find out if I can find a good job for foreign languages.

Learning Spanish