Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Techniques-for-learning-languages
Here are techniques for learning languages effectively. It is currently under construction.
Bilingual conversation
When you are talking with your language & culture exchange partner, make them bilingual for each sentence.
Let's see which language to speak first, and which second:
- If your speaking skill is good and your partner's listening skill is bad, you speak your language to learn first.
- If your speaking skill is bad and your partner's listening skill is good, you speak your partner's language to learn first.
The reason is that your partner will get the idea before you speak in the second language.
But if it's a chat on computer with text, it doesn't matter which one first, which one second.
If your partner can't speak a sentence well, you should say how to do it, with grammatical assistance, and your partner should repeat it fluently.
Mistake log
Keep a log about which type of mistake you tend to make, and pay more attention to it.
Language/Multiple-languages/Grammar/Common-Mistakes This page is also incomplete.
Parse and categorize
Find sentences, and parse them with tools such as
http://www.mapsofspeech.com/2017/10/02/treeform/
Then categorize those sentences with the trees' pattern, then you will have a really better understanding of the sentence structures.
Tandem
This method is not what you do on the app named Tandem.
In tandem, you and your partner are native speakers of the target language of each other. In a duration of time, you two only speak one's native language. In the next duration, you two only speak the other's native language. The lengths of the two durations are equal.
Synonym groups
When you find a word, try to find its synonyms, as many a native should know as possible, make them a group, mark their usage differences, and name the group with the word most frenquently used or the one you know best.
If you like, you can also have antonyms. But I guess too many words may discourage you.
Morse code training
“Are you serious?”
Creativity comes from deviation.
It helps to train concentration for listening. Maybe it's concentration, not limited to listening.
Morse code training software is not hard to find on every common operationg system.