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Full-Service Spanish Language School: Embrace Language and Culture

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Full-Service Spanish Language School: Embrace Language and Culture

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  1. Some Dos and Don'ts for Foreign Language Study

  2. Learning to Listen • Listen for cognates (words that are the same or almost the same in English) and try to get the rest of the idea by the context. • Don't be afraid to check your comprehension, by asking questions, asking for repetition, or restating the idea as you understand it. • Use your ability to mentally project an image of whatever is being discussed. • Don't waste your energy translating what you hear into English; by the time you get finished thinking about the translation of the first part of the sentence, you will have missed the second part, and perhaps the keyword, or ideas. Learn to listen to whole phrases and concepts, "packages of words" at the very least.

  3. Learning to Speak • You can't learn a language by "thinking" about it. You've got to use it. And that means practice. Practice whenever you can, both in and out of class. • Don't be embarrassed to make new sounds, or to make "mistakes"; These are the first steps of any language learning. • Imitate the sounds of the language as exactly as you can; you want a native speaker to be able to recognize the words. Learn to repeat whole sound patterns and voice intonations. • Speak in whole phrases and sentences, thereby practicing as much as possible.Imitate the speaker's position of facial and tongue muscles when you are in class, and practice in front of a mirror occasionally when you are at home.

  4. 1. Don't look up every single word you don't know. Learn the art of intelligent guessing. Learn to use the dictionary judiciously. • 2. Learn to identify the keyword or words in a passage that are blocking you from really understanding the meaning of the passage, and look those up first, for meaning. (Later you can look up others for vocabulary building or for writing a summary.) • 3. Don't look a word up until you have read at least the whole sentence in which it occurs. Or better yet, read the whole paragraph, page, or chapter, and then backtrack. • 4. Don't just translate. Learn to read for meaning. English is what you are trying to get away from. • 5. You may want to break up an assignment into several parts and in vocabulary lists and also do it in several sittings. When you are finished, then re-read the whole. Learning to Read

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