How to Properly Learn Languages: The one book to read BEFORE you start learning a language!

By LKG Studios and Lamar Kareem Gary (LKG)

Thinking about starting a language? Learn it to your max potential. Whether you are a student, are in the workforce and want to learn for the job, or are a vacationer who wants to get more fun out of the holiday, if the techniques in this book are followed, you will learn it faster and better!
This book is a magic formula, based on years of successful language learning, to ensure that before you invest your time and money into those language courses and apps, you are prepared to get the best out of them. Even if you have already started learning or teaching yourself, the techniques found in this book will make you learn faster, and help you to build a strong foundation to learn ANY language afterwards. A great conversation starter for the coffee table, it avoids using any complicated jargon and contains delightful stories to bring its messages home. Not only is HTPLL helpful for reaching your language goals, it is also written in such a way as to be an enjoyable read within itself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tablo Publishing
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781649696366

Book preview

Chapter 1 - Confidence Wins

Changing Your Reality

The key to learning languages is easier than one would think. However, you must follow one simple rule. I will explain that rule with an excerpt of a well-known philosophical argument. This argument is depicted in its simplest to understand form in a loosely translated quote taken from the popular manga series out of Japan entitled, Naruto.

In the manga, there is a character who has the ability to cast illusions on his opponents, making them think they are experiencing something they are not (genjutsu). In the middle of a death match with his little brother he says:

"All people live relying on their knowledge and perception, and are thus bound to them.

Those boundaries are what they tend to accept as ‘reality.’ However, knowledge and perception are both ambiguous, so ‘reality’ could be nothing more than an illusion. 

People live trapped by their limited perception, do you see?"

Well, do you see?

Before you embark on learning a new language, the very first thing you have to tell yourself is:

I can learn [target language].

Your reality before you learn is that you cannot speak your target language, but that reality does not have to be your reality, and it is not eternal. Reality can be changed, reshaped and in some cases destroyed. From this point on you will choose which reality should belong to you...

Many self help gurus and success coaches insist on the power of repetition. In such fashion, every time you begin an activity in your foreign language, you should tell yourself, slowly and calmly, at least three times:

I know [target language]

If you feel that is too much of a stretch, then repeat to yourself:

I know a little [target language]

It is important to reinforce the fact that you can operate in this language, inside of your subconscious mind - whether it is true or not.

As you say these words, imagine you are in the country where your target language is spoken, speaking to the people. You do not necessarily have to hear the conversation, but you can see, through visualization, that you are enjoying yourself, and living life to the fullest in a foreign land...

When you say this statement and imagine these events happening, you are exercising the bending of your old reality to conform to your desired reality. People like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are notorious for this ability.

Cosmic hogwash? As you repeat the process, daily, monthly, yearly, you will soon find that you have built up so much confidence inside of yourself that you will have the psychological edge over other language students who just come into class and expect some poorly underpaid teacher to infuse them with their target language through osmosis.

A young man, when asked about how he was able to lure so many women to him, especially when he did not have very attractive attributes, simply replied,

When my confidence is on high, it doesn’t matter what I look like. I’m getting any woman I want to.

Key Success Factors Review

Have confidence that your language reality will change.

Chapter 2 - The Second You

You Are a Baby!

Believe it or not, you are a baby. Normally, it is not good policy to insult readers, but I have a duty to be honest with you. You are a mixed up, confused, stumbling over your every single word baby, or at least a toddler, because you are learning a new language and have given birth to a new you.

Think about it. Here you are trying to learn this language that a native 4-year-old begins speaking with ease. Yes, the content is not always the most intelligent, but the native speaking tot can get his ideas across to whoever will listen. How in the world does he speak with his parents and with others in this confusing, ridiculous sounding language (one that frustrates you so often) without stumbling as much on his words as you do?

The answer is that to the native child, the target language is not ridiculous sounding. It makes all the sense in the world. The funny sounds with the accent mark are normal and that is exactly how you are supposed to say those particular words - with those not so funny to him, but funny to you sounds.

You may be thinking, but that’s totally unfair. I was not born speaking this frustrating language, but now I want to (or have to) learn it and some kid gets way more advantages by learning it early.

While it is true that you did not come out of the womb saying, las manajas rojas, mir ist kalt, or Ninhongo ga hanashimas, the hope for your success lies in the one fact that you and native speakers have in common; neither did they.

Like the baby version of the native speaker was, the baby in you has to be developed, trained, and nurtured. The truth is that if you are learning Spanish, for example, then you have two sides of your brain to think about, two entities inside of you, an English you, and a Spanish you. The native speaker in you is the person you have come to know as yourself. He or she is the person you identify with when someone says, you. The Spanish you is a baby. He or she is an unknown entity with an unknown personality. I find that when I am speaking German, I will even make some decisions differently than I would have had I only been speaking English the entire time.

Get in Touch With Your Second Self

I have an Italian me who is turning six years old, an English me who is an adult in his mid to late forties, a Spanish me who is in his preteens, a German me who is turning eighteen, and of course, a Japanese toddler.

They are all different people and I am becoming a little schizophrenic.

As crazy as it may sound, this is the way that you need to approach your language learning. Speaking of which, let’s get back to our example, that beautiful little Spanish baby, which is also you.

The baby Spanish speaker has to learn a few things. When he is around grown up Spanish speaking people, he looks around in a daze, trying to make heads or tails out of what anybody says. You do that too? Excellent. If not, I suggest you start. Just listen to older Spanish speaking people talk.

Here is where the biggest difference between you and those who have not yet read this book will become evident, so remember this well:

The native speaking baby repeats sounds and words that he hears, a lot; often not even knowing what he is talking about.

He makes the, rrrrr sound while shamelessly trying to roll his tongue. He does not make such statements as, this is boring, this is stupid, or I just can’t do this. Never will the Spanish-speaking baby declare, I’m not saying that, because that’s silly!

The Spanish baby is in touch with himself and deep down says, I want to communicate with these people so I am going to have to control the way that I speak. Then these people can understand