We reached the end of the course, thanks a lot for your attendance, your participation, your hard work, your dedication, your pojects, your speeches and your ENTHUSIASM. I´ll miss you a lot!!
Here a gift for you.
Tips for Successful Language Learning
- Enjoy your learning because the ability to enjoy is the key to effective learning.
- Take every opportunity to use the language. Talk as much as possible and interact with others.
- Expose yourself as much as possible to the language you are learning. The more you read or listen to the foreign language, the faster you will learn it.
- Be (or become) an extrovert person. Participate. Jump in, ask when you don't know. Experiment, learn to develop guessing strategies and be willing to make hypotheses.
- Make mistakes. Learning is process of constantly making mistakes.
- You, the learner, are the most important factor in the language learning process. Success or failure will be determined by what you yourself contribute.
- Be your own teacher. Develop your own strategies, figure out what works for you - taking notes outside of class, mnemonic tricks, talking to yourself, etc.
- Teach what you learn. One way to increase your own language use is to teach what you have learned to someone else.
- Be prepared for frustration. Interacting with others in another language can be a humbling experience. Increasing one's proficiency in a second language and culture take both time and concentrated effort.
- Be observant. Keep your eyes and ears open. Much of what you need is going on around you.
- Use memorization. Look for routines, fixed or formulaic chunks of language you can use over and over, bits of songs or plays, etc.
- Go with the flow. Do not rely on rules or explanations to the exclusion of keeping things moving. Develop your ability to paraphrase rather than lapse into silence.
