Here's a quick tip how I intuitively picked up, that can help you quickly pick up and adapt a new language for the conversational purposes.In order to start mastering a language you're trying to learn, you must read and write in that language. But the funny thing is, most of us learn newlanguages to be able to speak it. That's how babies learn to speak a language also, by actually trying to speak.So when I moved to the US I was desperate to speak English. And one dayout of nowhere I got this idea. I thought if I could only read an entire book, even a small book in English, I'd experience just about all aspects of the language, proper grammar on a practical level, sentence structure and construction, dialog, description ofthings and I'll go through about 50,000words, which in reality is about 2000-3000 words, many words repeat in books. And 2000-3000 words is more than enough to start the process of communication in that language. I thought to myself I'd be able to say stuff.But the big problem was I wouldn't know the meaning of the words I'd read. I also realized that by stopping and checking the meaning of each word I didn't know would take me forever. I needed a quicker fix, and whenI thought about it little more, I came upwith a solution, a strategy, kind of a hack.This was a big idea.If I read a book that I already have read in another language that I know, I'd know the story very well, I'dknow the characters, the settings, so I would have a generalidea all the visual images that the bookis communicating and all I have to do isassociate the Englishwords those visuals.So here is what I did.I read my favorite book, which is still my all-time favorite book, "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. I read the book multiple times in Russian before. It's a wonderful storyand a quick read, I love that book.So I read in Russian again, and right after I finished it, I started reading in English.It was really difficult in the beginning, but because I knew the story and was able toguess a lot of the words and didn't have to stop to checkwords. I just powered through it.Right after I did that once, I did it again. The idea was if I master the content of this one book in English I can actuallytalk to people. So I did it again.I repeated that process three or fourtimes. I read "The Alchemist" in Russian and right after I read it in English. I read it in Russian and then right after I read it in English.To my surprise, I leapfrogged in English, it worked. I started actually to speak the language good enough, to have conversations and apply for decent work. Obviously, I never stopped learning the language, but that was a turning point for me.Keep in mind, I only knew a handful of sentences in English,and after doing theseprocess I was able tohold a conversation. I continued that process with other books until I got proficient enough to take classes and start writing.Just a quick tip for you, try it maybe it'll work for you too. But remember you got to have fun, so pick a small book that you really like, and enjoy the process.Thanks for reading...Z.Contact Hayk[hike] atZAR.INK for customized group training programs, one-on-one executivecoaching or consulting.Article Source:https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Hayk_Zar/2395368
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