http://www.fasterforeignlanguagelearning.com/blog Discover Your Gift for Languages Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:16:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When you're learning a foreign language, improving your listening skills takes lots of listening. Even if listening material for your target language is plentiful, it's easy to find yourself without enough good material if you don't make the most of what you have. By listening to something just once ... http://www.fasterforeignlanguagelearning.com/blog/how-to-get-the-most-from-your-listening-material.html [caption id="attachment_558" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="November snowfall on Chavchavadzis"][/caption] (First off, we had a rather unseasonable drop of at least 10 centimeters of snow last night. Pictures included! :-)) Worst Method Ever? All right, it may not have been "the worst ever," but it was pretty bad. Years ago, I did a few ... http://www.fasterforeignlanguagelearning.com/blog/the-worst-language-learning-ever-review-practice.html A high tolerance for ambiguity is one of the most valuable traits a language learner can have. Any time you're working with a language you don't know well, you're going to have trouble with things like understanding speech, remembering new words, and pronunciation. Being comfortable with confusion and uncertainty saves ... http://www.fasterforeignlanguagelearning.com/blog/deal-frustration-learning-language.html When you're studying a language for fun with no particular goal in mind, your study schedule doesn't really matter since you can make some progress even at an hour or two a week. If you have a specific time-based goal, though, it's easier to stay on track when you have ... http://www.fasterforeignlanguagelearning.com/blog/how-much-time-studying-language-daily.html