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The important thing is to set realistic goals
天波轮 发表于 2012/8/21 16:17:00 |
Just how much time might it take?
There are generally two factors that decide whether a language is easy or harder to learn. These are how much time you have available to devote to learning, and the determination you have to progress. It also makes a difference if the language you want to learn is closely related to your own mother tongue.
As an example of the difference there can be in the time it takes to learn a new language, think about this. For the more remote languages that don't even have the same alphabet as your own language, you could be looking at a timescale of maybe 2 or 3 years to become fluent, but if you want to learn quickly, pick a language that is close to your mother tongue and you could be looking at 3 - 6 months depending on the time you can devote.
Who can learn a new language?
Most people can learn most languages if they work with a sensible method for a reasonable period regularly. Although it is true that some people are really bad at learning languages, there are very few of these. Rather, there are many people who were discouraged by bad experiences in school and who believe that if they dont speak french or german with any fluency after having spent 10 years in school studying it, this is because they are not gifted. That is rubbish!
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BR>Most people can learn foreign languages if they do it the right way. Actually, everybody, gifted or not, with a good or bad memory, learns his mother tongue effortlessly. Of course adults learn differently than children, but the point is that it does not take special skills to be an efficient language learner, just an efficient method.
Most people can speak a language like a native if they live in a country where they have to speak it all the time, especially when they are young. For all the others, learning to speak a language without accent is very difficult, something very few achieve. But nonetheless it is possible to learn to speak a language with fluency, to be able to express your thoughts with finesse and understand all the intricacies in the speech of the natives.
The important thing is to set realistic goals (the first step is to understand and be understood) and then measure yourself against them to know where you stand. The difference between the mediocre and the oustanding language learner is not so much in the time you need rather in where you decide to stop.
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Learning a new language should be fun, so don't think that you have to spend each and every day bashing away to try to improve your skills so that you can eventually speak like a local.
Rather, it is an open attitude toward learning, a realisation that even if you speak really well, you could improve it, learn new words or new expressions or perfect your pronunciation. Aim for excellence, and you'll get it! |
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