I said in the last recording that the language learning
process should be natural and no “textbook science” should be used to explain
it to the learner as I think language learning is no science just a very
natural process that should be expanded to its maximal potential and I think
the brain should do most of the work on its own. This doesn’t mean that one
should not take the advantage of all the shortcuts to help him understand the
language better and learn it faster. These shortcuts – grammar tables, word
lists, mnemonics, sound recorder and so on can speed up the process a lot. In
this recording I would like expand this thought a little and in order to make
it as demonstrative as possible, I would like to talk about how I would go
about learning a simple language, because I think explaining something on a specific
example is the best thing to do.
- First of all I would not learn a language just to learn a language. I mean there has to be more to it than just to learn a language for the sake of learning so if I were to start learning a new language I would already have a very good reason to do it like for instance I really liked a song in that language, or the culture of Japanese manga and so on, because correct and lasting motivation is very very important.
- As we are talking about learning a simple language, let's say I would like to learn Slovenian, because when I was in
