YOU TOO CAN BECOME A POLYGLOT
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If your dream is to learn many foreign languages, that is becoming a polyglot, then this is the right book for you! This book is an effective practical guide to self-study foreign languages. The author examines effective methods and shares precious secrets of great past and present polyglots while explaining how to plan and respect the best learning strategy. The aim is to obtain a high level of competence in a foreign language in a short period of time, suggesting us to learn not just one foreign language, but four! That’s right, four foreign languages in 2 years! Even though this ambitious goal may seem extremely difficult, it is not. -Time management is of fundamental importance and with this book you will know what to do (and what not to) to keep track of your time and not waste a single day of study. Embarking on a learning journey is definitely challenging but wonderful. It requires effort, determination and a great study program. The author, a passionate science educator and a self-taught polyglot shares his insight on how to become more productive and accelerate the learning process, saving you time and effort.
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YOU TOO CAN BECOME A POLYGLOT - Roberto Coppola
YOU TOO CAN BECOME A POLYGLOT
Introduction
Let’s get things straight
Great polyglots of the past
What is still valid and what is not
Great polyglots of the present
From your native language to your native language
The infallible methods
The perfect method
Now it’s your turn, this is what you need to do
Towards excellence
Conclusions
Introduction
The ability of speaking correctly a foreign language is frequently seen as the result of an innate gift, a type of genetic requirement that allows its possessor to communicate in a language other than his own; a language in which he learnt to express himself relatively easy and in a short period of time. Unfortunately, but at the same time fortunately, it's not like that. Unfortunately, for those who could possess such gift, fortunately for all the rest mere mortals, who lack such natural gift; they also have the same possibilities to learn one or more foreign languages using methods available to everyone.
This book has a unique objective: to indicate a precise path of learning a foreign language in a reasonably short period of time and to a satisfying level of speaking and writing communication.
To reach this objective, we will start taking as reference some great polyglots of the past and present in order to learn from them useful lessons and elaborate our own study method: the most efficient and fastest possible.
The polyglots that I have chosen are not absolutely the best but they are to our cause. They were chosen, that is, not because their talent is superior to others, but according to the relevance of the things we can learn from the methods they elaborated and used in order to reach their extraordinary results.
The indications that I have selected will serve to obtain the maximum results from three learning methods, making their usage faster, easier and most importantly infallible
. The three methods are described in chapter 6.
1. Let’s get things straight
Whoever speaks fluently a foreign language, acts with the same simplicity as when he speaks his native language. This ease induces the listener in many evaluation errors. The same thing happens when we listen to a musician playing a musical instrument with apparent ease. There is no effort, no difficulty. Everything is perfect and natural. This is the first myth to bring down.
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In order to learn to communicate with ease in a foreign language it is necessary to undertake a process of precise, rigorous and challenging learning.
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But what does it mean precise, rigorous and challenging
? It simply means that we need to follow well tested indications and respect some simple rules. It means that we must avoid some serious mistakes. Those mistakes that is almost certain to cause us failure.
A very useful provocation
If you had problems with learning one foreign language, learn four! Said like that, it sounds like a provocation. But in reality, it is a very useful advice and this book will make possible learning a considered number of foreign languages in a relatively short period of time. At this point you are probably wondering: but how is it possible to learn many foreign languages if it is already difficult just to learn one of them? The answer is very simple and refers to something that I was able to notice in many of my students:
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Setting the objective of learning three or four foreign languages requires planning and respecting a learning strategy.
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While if we decide to commit to only one language, we risk to slow down the process, to dilute the commitment in time, and frequently, to abandon the study. Conclusion: no result and lots of frustration.
How much is necessary to know
This is a crucial question. I have met people who were tongue-tied in a foreign language even though they were convinced to speak it fluently. I have also met people who on the contrary, complained about their poor level of knowledge but knew how to express themselves fluently and properly. So there is the need to set some points of reference in order to establish, objectively, how to evaluate our communicative abilities and which level of knowledge we wish to reach.
For this purpose, the European Union joins in to give us a hand, since in order to harmonize the objectives of knowledge and the evaluation tools between the member countries, a Common European Framework of Reference of Languages (CEFR) was elaborated. This framework sets six levels of knowledge, from the Beginner to the Proficiency level and describes them in detail.
A1 – Beginner level
Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where