A Practical Guide To Fluency: Practical Language

By Zakary Kerr

Learning simplified! If you've tried learning a foreign language before or if you're a total beginner, this book is for you. In my own experience, I've found many of the answers to my questions needlessly complex or simply lacking. I wrote this for you to land right in the middle. This concise guide comes with explanations and exercises for all you need to reach conversational fluency and explorative literacy in any language!

 

This book was written for you if you're sick of these things:

• Being sold courses
• Being sold additional study material when so much is already free
• Not enough material at the earliest stages of learning
• Overly complex grammarian answers
• Overly broad or simple answers
• Scouring the web, forums, and social media, for just the right explanation
• A lack of recommendations for further material

I understand and sympathize with how difficult it can be to get started in a new language. I've also met enough people with the same questions and frustrations and perhaps you're in a similar spot. Break common misconceptions around learning, go through the basic parts of speech and grammar structures, learn how to immerse with plenty of recommendations for general material and more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Little House Publishing
• Release date: Mar 1, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224424818

Zakary Kerr

My name is Zakary Kerr and my passion for language comes from family roots and for teaching from my military service. I've learned Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese for fun, for work, or for both and I've had many frustrations and setbacks along the way. Friends, family, colleagues, and fellow students online have asked my advice which prompted me to put it all in one place! I sought to have a comprehensive, yet concise guide here for you. Be on the lookout for other reading material in the future for this language!

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What This Is

As a sort of preface to the material of this book, it is important that I explain what this book really is and what it simply is not. But before I even get into that, I want you to know that if you believe you found you said something erroneous or otherwise disagreeable, please let me know directly with an email to [e-mail] .

Now, this book was made to be a practical guide to conversational fluency and exploratory literacy. In writing this book, I put a lot of effort into exploring my own methodology of how I learned multiple languages. I’ve considered what grammatical topics you will need to get you to a place of true comprehension and fluid use of daily speech. Once that happens, you can successfully expand into more advanced topics if you so desire.

If your end goal is to seek employment in a foreign country, to pursue a higher education there, or to immigrate to another country, this book should clarify a great many things that you need to better assimilate. This book is not meant to be a university education in fifty pages. What I hope to do with this book is to enable you to branch out with ease into more advanced topics and spark an interest in you to explore more about linguistics and the target language of your choice.

That said, I made sure to include the areas necessary to provide you a more intimate, yet still broad, understanding of your native language. These are the things that will enable you to ask better questions as you learn and make the foreign concepts less foreign. From my experience, I use these to generally compare or directly relate to other languages successfully and to broaden my understanding of those languages and cultures with ease. It will allow you to make deeper connections faster and to achieve your goals in a more enjoyable manner so that you feel more accomplished, educated, and truly capable with your abilities.

CHAPTER TWO

Breaking Misconceptions

Types of Fluency

What is fluency? Is it when you can speak as smoothly and broadly as a native speaker? Thankfully, no. Is it when you reach a full academic or professional array of knowledge and experiences? Nope. Or is it when you simply earn an appropriate degree or certificate? Also,