10 Fun Ways to Learn a Language
When we decide to learn a language, we always get confused. We get frustrated from where you should start. Even when we get bored, our learning process starts to work slowly. Studies show that a relaxed and happy mind helps us learn more effectively. That’s why in this blog, I am going to share some fun ways to learn a language :
Watch drama
Watching drama is the most fun and entertaining way to learn languages. You’ll find so many movies and dramas with subtitles in other languages online. Some of them are professionally done while others are subbed by fans and other subbing groups who do it for fun. It may take time to get used to it first because you have to watch the video while reading the subtitles.
If you’re watching movies or dramas on YouTube and other video streaming sites, you can click the CC (closed captions) button to turn off the subtitles.
Adjust the speed of the playback so you can understand the dialogue and make the pause and back buttons your friends for the meantime. If you find it difficult to understand what’s being said, turn the English subtitles on.
It will help you to know idioms, proverbs and body languages of that language.
Solve crossword puzzle
Expand your vocabulary by solving crossword puzzles. At first you can search on google and collect some answers. Later, you should do it by yourself and challenge yourself to come up with the foreign words on your own.
Learn some nursery rhymes
Learn some nursery rhymes in your chosen language and try to memorise them. It helps learners have an emotional engagement with the language and allows them to use it for imagining and expressing.
Change your phone settings
This small adjustment is one of the easiest ways to integrate learning a new language into your daily routine. You can be able to navigate your phone and engage with useful new vocabulary to make phone calls, send mails, and use your other apps.
Change your social media settings
We all use our social media for more than 2 hours. When we are using our social media, why not give some learning language through social media. Change the language of social networks and navigate your account and engage with useful new words in it. You can’t change the content language that your friends will post but you can translate those posts and try to learn new terms in your targeted language.
Communicate with the natives of target language
Every country has its own culture, problems and its own reality. The language gives passage to this reality and gives way to learn about different lifestyles of the people in other countries. Talking to these people opens new doors in your mind. Learning activates the reward mechanism in your mind and you draw more and more curiosity to learn and this becomes your intrinsic motivation to practice the language with the natives of that language.
Learning new phrases and proverbs
Language is an intriguing tool created by our minds and its creativity knows no bounds. Phrases and proverbs are funny things when you translate them into your main tongue. People enjoy these expressions of saying a thing in a different way and conveying so much meaning into a few words. Learning these chunks of words doesn’t only help one’s to improve their competitiveness in the target language, but also provide a good base of enjoyment for studying.
Learn a new alphabet and express yourself in another aesthetic way
Each language uses an alphabet to store the knowledge, ideas and other intellectual properties in a transferable way. Alphabets are one of the common products of great civilizations and their aesthetic is idealised in thousands of years that they gained the best intelligible and beautiful form.
For foreign language practitioners, the aesthetic beauty of an foreign alphabet is one of the charms to keep making passionate efforts. Mastering a foreign alphabet and observing your own growth visually is one of the satisfactions that foreign language enthusiasts get from learning. Let’s not forget that written study makes for better learning and remains in the long-term memory for longer. If you are a foreign language enthusiast too, you will find great joy spending your time on the symbolic elements of language.
Read newspaper/blog online
Reading newspapers and blogs can be very interesting because you are not only learning, you are getting information about that specific language’s country too.
Listen to music and sing
It is one of the most fun ways to learn a language. We are incomplete without music. Let’s make it fun and effective for learning too. Explore a bunch of singers of targeted language and make playlists then start to sing along with them by checking the lyrics. It helps to develop your pronunciation skills.
These are some fun ways to learn a language. Share your fun way to learn languages in a comment. Don’t forget to love yourself.
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