How do you learn to speak a language? 6 Minute English

Learning English and mastering a new language can be difficult, can't it? So, how can we make language learning simpler and faster? What challenges do we face? Rob and Neil discuss the best way to learn languages - and bring you some useful English vocabulary.

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𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟔 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬:
Should schoolchildren have jobs?

Is 'man flu' real?

Giving up alcohol

The future of artificial intelligence

The men taking their wife's name after marriage

𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲
𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫
learn thoroughly or learn well

𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭
speak well and without difficulty.

f𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲
how often something occurs

𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬
changes to the basic form of words to show changes to the way they are used in a sentence

𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐚
the simplest form or base form of a word

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3:08, please let me comment on the most frequent 1000 words theory.

I am a government interpreter for mandarin language(which is my 4th foreign language), and come across various situations where the words are new to me, even though, I have mastered at least 5000 words.

When I am with my french friends they do not always use the frequent 1000 words, moreover, in case of deep conversations we tend to use rare vocabulary. The simple things we see every day are not included in these 1000 words, thus we may often not be able to communicate proficiently.

According to all these years of observation, I would suggest the learners to definitely learn the 1000 frequent words, however, they should not forget to practice every single day. For example, reading news papers, watching videos on youtube, and meeting native speakers of the target language are some of the many ways they can train their minds to start thinking in a foreign language.

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When learning a new language; DON'T GIVE UP. Practice makes perfect!! But you must include "study" ...understand how the word is used. The different uses of the word.

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Hey ! thank you for these videos, they help me a lot with improving my english. I´ve been studying english for 3 years and I realized the best way of learning english is, have a basic knowledge of english, and talking with native speakers because it is not the same as in the books in english, so, you need to get used to listen to the native speakers or watching series or even this type of videos !