¡Hola! /
Salut! /
Привет! /
Konnichiwa!
( Hi! / Hello! )
(Click on text to hear it. Use 'ctrl' to pause.) (New audio with native speaker coming soon.)
If you ever wanted to learn a foreign language, this is the place and NOW is the time.
Imagine, sitting in a class, ready for your first Spanish lesson and the teacher walks in and says:
¡Hola! Soy Santi, ¿y tú?
( Hi! I'm Santi, and you? )
(while waving 'hello' and then places his palm to his chest 'Soy Santi' and then directs his hand to the students '¿y tú?')
Most, or all of the students will likely sit there with blank looks on their faces, so he will repeat, with hand actions:
¡Hola! Soy Santi, ¿y tú?
One student is then likely to reply:
¡Hola! Soy Nancy. ( Hi! I'm Nancy. )
And the teacher replies with a thumbs up:
¡Muy bien! ( Very good! )
And then says, while offering a handshake:
Mucho gusto. ( Nice to meet you. )
He would then go to each of the other students and say:
¡Hola! Soy Santi, ¿y tú?
( Hi! I'm Santi, and you? )
They would then be able to reply:
¡Hola! Soy (name).
And the teacher would reply:
¡Muy bien!
Mucho gusto.
( Very good! Nice to meet you. )
By the time you repeat that with each student, that set of expressions is 'locked in' and you can then continue with the next step.
All you really need to learn a new language is to see, hear and practice speaking it. You literally 'speak to learn'. It's a physical process, not a mental one. And you need to hear words and expressions as spoken by native speakers.
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Once all the students have introducted themselves, the teacher would then say:
¡Muy bien!
¡Excelente!
( Very good! Excellent! )
(One more word learned, easily and naturally.)
Then he says:
Me llamo Santi.
( My name is Santi. )
to add something new and goes around the class.
Esto es Nancy. ( This is Nancy. )
Esto es Bob. ( This is Bob. )
and so on.
And that's an example of how you can start teaching a language without even using the student's native language.
Then he can take an apple, an orange, a banana and a tomato and say:
Esto es una manzana. ( This is an apple. )
Esto es una mandarina. ( This is an orange. )
Esto es un plátano. ( This is a banana. )
Y esto es un tomate. ( This is a tomato. )
Next, he'll ask the question and help with the answer.
¿Qué es esto? ( What's this? )
Es una manzana. ( It's an apple. )
[Is an apple.] (No need to say 'it'.)
¿Qué es esto? ( What's this? )
Es una mandarina. ( It's an orange. )
¿Qué es esto?
Es un plátano. ( It's a banana. )
¿Qué es esto?
Es un tomate. ( It's a tomato. )
All of the above can be done in about 10 minutes of your first lesson ever learning Spanish, and you can hopefully see how effective such a method is because it gets you physically involved and really thinking about the ideas being expressed.
It also wastes no time with English explanations. We speak at an average speed of 250 to 300 words per minute, so every minute you spend not hearing and speaking Spanish is time lost not physically learning the language. Like we said before, you literally 'speak to learn'.
I'm terrible at languages! Can you really help?
Absolutely! The problem you experienced in the past was trying to learn a new language with a lousy program. Most of us learned a foreign language in high school with very little success. The problem is with the program, not the learners.
Sound like a native speaker!
You can learn to speak Spanish like a native speaker but it takes practice and you need the 'tools' to practice with. For example, the 'g' and 'j' sounds.
Julia /
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Angela /
genial ( great, cool )
Julia /
Angela /
genial
With your phone, tablet or laptop and a good online language program you absolutely can learn a new language and sound like a native. Sure, it takes time and effort but it can be done, and that's the beauty of it. Try it now!
¡Hola! Soy Santi, ¿y tú?
¡Hola! Soy David. Mucho gusto.
Mucho gusto, David.
Hablas español muy bien.
( You speak Spanish very well. )
Gracias. ( Thanks. )
What's the best way to learn a foreign language?
Many language learning experts tell you 'how to do it' and then say "There's lots of material on the internet." Come on!! We need a step-by-step, word-by-word program that teaches us the language. And we don't want to think about what to learn next (grammar, etc), we simply want to click 'next' and ideally 'slower' or 'faster'. After all, some of us are really slow at learning languages and others learn quickly.
I'm too old to learn a new languages!
Nonsense! You simply need a program that keeps you in mind during the design. Keep the letters big so I can see them and click on them with my 'fat' fingers. And go slow with lots of repetition. And best of all, learning a new language is excellent exercise for your mind to keep it healthy and strong!
Let's try these again:
¿Qué es esto? ( What's this? )
Es una manzana. ( It's an apple. )
¿Y esto? ( And this? )
Es una mandarina. ( It's an orange. )
Bien. Muy bien. ( Good. Very good. )
¿Y qué es esto? ( And what's this? )
Es un plátano. ( It's a banana. )
¿Y qué es esto? ( And what's this? )
Es un tomate. ( It's a tomato. )
¿Y comó me llamo? ( And what's my name? )
[And how am I called?]
Santi.
¡Muy bien! ( Very good! )
¡Excelente! ( Excellent! )
Language learning is a PHYSICAL process.
There's no need to 'memorize' anything with a proper language learning program. It's like learning a sport or a musical instrument. It's a physical process that simply requires physical practice.
Avoid mistakes BEFORE they happen.
When you start learning a language, or anything for that matter, it's vitally important that you learn properly from the beginning! Bad habits are VERY hard to fix later. Learning with our method makes it physically impossible to make simple mistakes because you learn physically (read, listen, speak) and intuitively.
Listen, Read, Speak and Learn!
It really is that simple. This simple process develops the physical ability to hear the sounds correctly and to say them correctly while strengthening the new neural connections at the same time.
Where's the mistake? :
She's listening music on the radio.
This is a great example of physical and intuitive learning. I was living in Indonesia at the time and had made a program for learning Indonesian. I gave a beginner booklet to my new helper who had zero English and told him to read the English out loud, 3 times a day which would take about 5 minutes each time.
He was a new employee so of course he did as he was told. He could see the Indonesian and the English side by side as well as word definitions so he could understand everything, but I specifically told him to just read it without trying to learn or remember anything.
A week later, I got him to learn to type, the same way I learned to type Russian and it takes about 2 hours to (physically) learn the entire keyboard. Then I got him to try typing the English from the Indonesian and he wrote the above sentence. I happened to see it and said, "Oh, this one's wrong."
He couldn't find the mistake and even started to think I was wrong! It was really interesting. Then I told him, "Relax, don't think, don't look at the computer, just give the English after I say the expression in Indonesian." We started a sentence back and he replied, "What's Mary doing?". Then, after hearing the Indonesian he said, "She's listening to.." and then stopped, realizing his mistake but he'd already said it correctly without thinking. I exclaimed, "That's the entire foundation of our language learning concepts."
Try to see how many of the following expressions and words you remember the meaning of: (click to view translation)
How did you do? If this was your very first introduction to Spanish you may not have remembered much. That's normal. If you did remember some, that's great! The key is to keep listening, reading and speaking along with the audio and you will learn 'automatically'.
It's all about 'intuitive learning' and 'physical learning'. The less you 'think about it' the better. It's really amazing to see how effective it is and we'd love to share it with you!
So, if you want to learn any of the following languages, go there to read more specific information on learning that language.
English
Spanish
Indonesian
Russian
If you like our language learning concepts and would like to join us to create a program for learning your language, please email me, Brian. ( gmaebc@gmail.com ) We'd love to hear from you.
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