I’velearnedseveralforeignlanguagesasanadultandwasableto...

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I’ve learned several foreign languages as an adult and was able to learn French to fluent conversation in 17 days.

In 2005 I stayed with a French friend in a French village. No one in the village spoke English and my friend refused to speak English as well.

I set up a routine where I did the same things every day.

In the morning, I practiced writing vocabulary for 2 hours. I believe writing things out is the best way to memorize things.

While writing, I would listen to French learning MP3s. It’s really helpful to hear other students make mistakes that you can learn from, just like a regular classroom environment.

I had lunch with my French friends every day. As they refused to slow down when speaking to me in French, it was to learn or to starve!

In the afternoon, I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in French. Reading the children’s books you read as a child is a great way to learn new languages. Firstly, the language used is simple and secondly, knowing the story helps you to guess the meaning of new words and avoid using a dictionary.

I spent an hour writing basic essays about things that always get asked like “Where are you from?” “What do you do?”, which I had my French friend check for errors. By learning ready-made answers, you practice what you learned and build up your confidence.

Another good tip is to learn the filler words, which people say between sentences but have no real meaning, allowing you to buy time in conversation.

After 17 days I went to Paris, where I met a girl in a coffee shop. When I told her I had been learning French for 17 days, she insisted that I had lived in France for at least a year.

1. The writer may come from ______.

  A. France                         B. Germany                         C. China                              D. the USA

2. Which of the following is NOT what the writer does in learning French?

  A. She wrote new French words one by one, again and again every morning.

  B. She would listen to a French teaching class by MP3 while she was writing.

  C. She had supper with her friends everyday, practice talking with them.

  D. She wrote answers to some usual questions to build up her confidence.

3. What is the purpose of the writer to write this essay?

  A. To tell people that she was a very good language learner.                               

  B. To share with people some methods of learning a language.

  C. To keep a record of her experience of learning a language.                            

  D. To tell people that it was not easy to learn a new language.

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