Check some mistakes you should avoid when learning a language

Learning can be fun, interesting and fast. This also applies to languages. When you start studying another one, there are a few things you should consider in order to improve it and to make this a more efficient process.

According to the polyglot and programmer Judith Meyer, people usually comes up with several excuses that slows their progression. In an article posted by Time Ideas, she explains what can be done to develop our abilities to learn and to accelerate it.

Meyer, who speaks eight languages, says that many students stick to methodologies and visions that are not always the best way to get fluent. More than that, some people tend to think of learning languages as a traditional education method – with books, a teacher and a classroom. However, it goes beyond a school pattern.

The most common mistakes in the process were listed by Judith Meyer: 1) Thinking that going to a class will teach them the language; 2) Not following their interests; 3) Balking at the language being different; 4) Finding excuses not to use the language, rather than excuses to use it; 5) Thinking that language learning has to be strenuous. Read the full article.