Your Guide to Learning Any New Language (Including Worksheets).
This course teaches you how to go about Learning Languages as an adult. You will learn how to find your purpose for learning a language, how to use this as motivation, how to maintain your drive, and how to identify what to learn, what to concentrate on, and how to measure your achievements and points to be improved upon. In short, everything you need for learning any new language!
Learn a New Language at Any Age!
One of the biggest fallacies in language learning today is the idea that only young kids can learn new languages, and that, once you've reached a certain age, you shouldn't even bother learning a new language. Unfortunately, many of us believe this because we've observed this first hand. We learned a language when we were young, or we know someone who grew up with more than one language, but when we try to learn a new language as adults, it seems to be a never-ending process with no improvement.
This Course demonstrates A) why this fallacy is incorrect and B) how you can learn a new language at any age!
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Content Overview
This course is structured to serve as reference material, as well as a guide for your specific language learning journey, no matter what your native tongue or your source language may be. As such, the material is created to be as actionable as possible. It starts with the basics, delving deeper and deeper into what it means to learn your new language. After this, you will find other notes, things to keep in mind, and also many Tips and Tricks!
At the very end, you will find a downloadable template you can fill out in order to create your own schedule for your Language Learning Journey. The very last lesson will walk you through this Template.
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.” – Haruki Murakami
Translator / AI Consultant
Robert has been a translator since childhood. He started translating for extra money while in high school, and continued to do so throughout college and graduate school. These days, his clients include banks, corporations, non-profits, consulates, as well as private individuals, and he has been able to expand and set up his own boutique Translation Agency called Lugano Translations, run entirely with Freelancers. His education and background was in finance and fiscal policy, and his translation agency specializes in financial and legal translations. His expertise is in Entrepreneurship and Freelancing, from both the perspective of the "hirer" as well as the "hiree". Robert also has a passion for languages, both for work and just for pleasure.
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