50 Ways to Learn a Language
By Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell
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About this ebook
Learning another language seems like an impossible task to many, but it doesn’t have to be that way. We like to think of learning a language as a journey or an adventure, where you follow clues and progress one step at a time toward your goal.
This book provides 50 language “mini adventures” -- learning tasks that each help you find your way along your language learning path. Let language experts Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell be your guides as you take these mini adventures, based on years of academic research and experience, and incorporate them into your daily life. You'll find meaningful interactions in your target language, and you'll have fun, too.
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50 Ways to Learn a Language - Shane Dixon
Fifty Ways to Learn a Language
Shane Dixon
Justin Shewell
Wayzgoose PressCopyright © 2018 by Shane Dixon and Justin Shewell
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Contents
How to Use This Book
Introduction
1. Adventure Starters
2. Adventures in Food
3. Language Watching Adventures
4. At Home Adventures
5. Adventures in Social Media
6. Adventures with Friends
7. Read Your Own Adventure
8. Write Your Own Adventure
9. Strange(r) Adventures
10. Language Learning Strategies
Bonus tip!
Complete List of Tips
Additional Resources
About the Authors
About the Publisher
How to Use This Book
The activities here were selected based on several criteria:
The activity must be, above all, academically sound. Thus, these activities all have roots, although sometimes contested, in research-based concepts.
The activity must be, on the whole, motivational. While not every activity will be exciting or interesting to every learner, we have carefully chosen activities that represent something that most learners will want to try. You may notice that there is a sort of adventure
quality to these activities, and in fact, we refer to them as mini language adventures.
Each and every activity should be ‘level-agnostic,’ meaning that whether you are a beginner or advanced learner of the language, these activities can provide positive results.
So pick a language, pick an activity, and start learning immediately.
As you read the following activities, keep in mind the following suggestions:
Review all 50 tips again and again. These ideas can be read in any order, and an idea that might sound daunting or uninteresting in one moment might feel possible and even exciting later on. Thus, getting basic familiarity with these ideas is a good way to start. Make your favorite activities a regular part of your language-learning diet.
Use the back page. The back page provides a summary of all 50 tips to quickly remind you of all the possible activities.
Work with others. One way to make this book really interesting is to invite or challenge others on social media (Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, for example)