Learning a Foreign Language

Learning a foreign language involves learning a lot of grammar rules and vocabulary and creating a conversational environment to practice them. It is different from learning a second language in some aspects: first, if you learn a language in its natural environment and have to use it as you need to do, that is called “learning a second language”, which can be accepted to learn a language naturally and unconsciously as we do while learning our own language. Second great difference is you don’t have to memorise a lot of boring grammar rules to speak it as you have to do to learn a foreign language in a country where that language is not spoken.

What’s funnier, you learn a lot of rules about the language but you cannot speak it yet. As you are far away from the country it is spoken, you are lacking in practising it. It will likely take your years to speak a language fluently without thinking.

If you are talented enough, that is, if you are a language person and you have a good memory, you can use lots of ways to learn to speak the language in an effective way. I am saying “to speak the language” because it is the last step in learning a foreign language but "speaking" is the first step in learning our mother tongue after listening and understanding phases.

Learning a new language plays a very important role in one’s life. As we learn a language, we also learn a new culture, new life views so it is almost equal to developing yourself. If you live in the country where that language is spoken, you are lucky but that does not mean that you don’t go to a language course, or get some tutoring to learn it well.

Whatever the case is, never give up learning a new language and do your best to practise it. As a simple example, don’t we all get pleasure saying “I love you” in different languages? So have fun while learning!