What is the best way to learn a new language?
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by living with a family that speaks it....travaling to the respected county. Also you can get tapes that you can listen too.
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With practice... lots of practice.  Best way is language tapes, and a personal recorder. Record yourself speaking, then play the recording back. Listen at how you sound. Practice speaking the words that are not quite right. In time, you will get better.
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The fastest way is immersion.  Surround yourself with French speakers and only speak French.  Carry a translating book and dictionary, and look it up if you don't know it.\n\nI guess the French CD's at the bookstore are okay, but I don't know anyone who has learned a language that way.
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listen to someone else speak it, buy a tape, find a station or movie in french... something that really helped me was watching subtitled movies.  i had a hard time learning french too, and the best way to learn is to always hear it and try to understand what your hearing.  even if at first you only understand a word or two, or just pick out something and are like, hey! i know that word!  the rest tends to fall into place.  as for things like learning to conjugate verbs and what not... i'm afraid my dear, you might just have to study ;)  haha.. but yeah, subtitled movies!!  i highly recommend!  good luck!
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The best tip is total immersion.  If you have the opportunity to study abroad and spend three to four months in another country, you'll pick up the language much faster and much more fluently than years of study in a classroom.\n\nShould you be unable to travel, speak with professors at universities and ask for the best language guides.  They'll point you in a direction in a way that most commercial sources won't be able to do.  They'll have the inside tips for the best resources, and they'll be able to show you which guides are good for self-study.
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The best way to learn any language is to match yourself up with a tutor who is a native speaker of the language you want to learn and is of the opposite sex.  There does not have to be any romantic chemistry, but people learn languages better from people of the opposite sex because they tend to watch their lips more.  Concentrate on conversation about things you want, learning from books and doing drills and exercises is simply ineffective.
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There are 3 things to talking in another language\n1. Pronounciation/intonation: the best way to get better there is to listen back to your own voice on a dictaphone/tape and try to sound like the one person whose accent you like most. For some sounds you might need the help of a competent speaker, telling you how to shape the difficult sounds with your lip and tongue.\n\n2. Vocabulary: there is no way but to keep learning the words. Reading and watching films in the target language will help a lot there. I myself found the ads on television/radio helped a lot, because they keep repeating, and you catch by the second or third time what you missed at first. you can also catch useful cliches/idioms.\n\n3. Grammar and syntax: they should actually be your last concern. English grammar at the level of everyday speech is - in my view - very easy,  and even if you make mistakes, the native speakers are usually very tolerant. \nOne of the greatest barriers for many people is the fear of making a fool of themselves. You will do so, as we all did at one stage or another. Just laugh along.\n\nAnd the only thing that makes perfect is practice, practice, practice. Listening and reading are NOT the same as talking yourself, writing comes near, but gives you more time, of course, whereas in talking you need to think on your feet.\n\nI do hope I understood your question correctly, and was of some help. Good luck.
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first of all, are you a visual person or an audio person? If you learn by visual, reading or watching movie (in your language) with subtitle (in the language you want to learn) will help.\n\nIf you learn by audio, listen to the songs (the language you want to learn) and find out the translated lyrics. Another way is to have someone to speak the language to. That helps a lot.
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Total immersion is the best way....have you considered stuy abroad or an exchange student program?\n\nRosetta Stone\nDo you live somewhere were there are a lot of spanish-speaking people? Ask one of them to help you, and maybe you can help them with English.
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I think "Teach Yourself" series books with CD's are the best.\nI don't know about Spanish but it greatly helped me to learn an another languge.\n\nThe best way to learn any language is to find an enviroment where you can speak and test your learnig.
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I took the easy way, and went to the country to learn the language. When I say the easy way, it has a double meaning. Anyway, I learned French in the USA, in highschool, and I can give you some tips. \n\nPractice as much as you can. A computer program is a good thing to learn vocabulary. Use online translators, too, but don't get caught up with them for translating sentances or big texts -- because they wont do you any good. Read a verb book, and start to learn your verbs, because once you know the basic conjugations for verbs, you'll be able to conjugate any very you want to. \n\nTo be able to retain everything you learn, you need to practice. I've been speaking French for 5 years now (I went and lived in Paris for 6 months and when I left, I spoke flawlessly). Now that I have been speaking Spanish for 8 months, I find it hard to speak french, and some spanish words come out. That's because I have been so focused on Spanish and I haven't put to practice my French in a while.  \n\nIf you know words in Spanish, try to think of things when you look around your room, and tell the object to yourself in Spanish. Like others said, watch TV, movies, listen to music, anything to let your ear hear spanish. You're only going to learn if you look up the words that you don't know, because if you're listening to spanish all day and not relating a word to english (or any other language you know) you wont learn.\n\nIt's fun to learn another language once you learn the first. It's easier, like everyone says, because you do things better from when you learned your first language. I worked harder learning spanish, maybe it's because I am older (well I am 20 years old) but I just know how things work. \n\nTake your time and the language will come. Don't make it feel like a chore because it's not. It should be fun learning another language... because so many people in the USA only speak one language, already you're showing interest in other cultures, wanting to learn about another way of communicating -- it's great.\n\nI dont know if you want to speak Spain spanish, Mexican spanish, or Argentine Spanish (what I speak) but go to www.clarin.com. It's Buenos Aires' newspaper online. Print a small paragraph and highlight all the words you dont know. Honestly, it takes time, but it helps. Then you can try reading something else, after learning the highlighted words, and you'll be amazed how much more you'll understand.\n\nTo memorize, you have to practice, practice, practice. I hope this helps a little. Preguntame si necesitas ayuda! Que disfrutes!
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The best way to learn english is to first go through a few books for grammitical rules. Then next you build your vocabulary. This can be done by reading a few good books. Finally you need to learn to speak. This is done by carrying out frequent conversations with your friends, relatives and other people. Start using Yahoo! voice chat to talk to people!!
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You should first know your learning style: can you learn from a language CD, person, book, etc.\n\nFocus on how you learn best.  If you can pick up differences in speech from a CD, Barnes and Noble/ Borders etc sell some really good tutorials.  Pimsleur is a set I have had success with.\n\nNext find a person or circumstance you can practice the verbal skills you are picking up.  Asian Societies/Japanese societies, etc.  practice. practice and practice some more.\n\nAs far as the written.  Pick up a set of books that teach written Japanese.  Start with Hiragana, then katagana, and finally Kanji.
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I think when you want to learn a foreign language, you need to learn the basics with a private teacher who will have all the focus on you and then you should go to, you know, public classes so you will be able to communicate with others. The best thing is to be in a place (specially a city or country) where people speak that language. \nAnyways, if you don't want classes I recommend this CD that will work beautifully." Learn To Speak French" is the name. They have this CD for other languages too; such as English, Spanish , etc. It's really great. You can even take online courses and besides it's really beneficial since you can have conversations with characters in the program. Your reading, writing, speaking and listening will improve all together. \nGood luck! :)
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The most effective way is to practice with a fluent Spanish speaker.  I remember when I was learning in school, I surrounded myself with Spanish speakers so that I could practice. Also, Michel Thomas has a program that's supposed to be good.
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I can safely say that I have tried no less than 5 learn-at-home language programs to learn Spanish. The only one that has helped me has been the "Learn in Your Car" series (available for several languages, I believe).  The absolute best way for most people to really learn how to speak a second language conversationally is to be immersed in it. Sure, you'll get the basics from any decent learn by yourself program, but none that I have encountered truly can emulate what it's really like to actually speak with someone in a second language.
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The best way to improve one's fluency in a language is to use it! Write stories, talk to people, read anything and everything you can find. The internet is a great website for this--read anything you can find that interests you! Good luck!